I suppose it is relatively obvious, but I'd like to point out that the vast
majority of surgeons, as well as the vast majority of physicians in
general, know nothing about this. It is hardly reasonable to extrapolate
in this way from one fanatic to an entire professional community.
Regards,
Sue Kaiser
Department of Surgery
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York
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>Dear Allen,
>
>ONLY ONE surgeon!!! FAX machine attack on congressman?
>But surely,American surgeons were NOT demonstrated not to
>cut the budget of AHCPR which means "Yes,we surgeons community
> also think AHCPR ought to be cut down the budget".
>So, I conclude that both the man made dummy organization and surgeon's
>community are the same opinion about AHCPR.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Saio
>
>> Not to spread gossip, but I talked once with an AHCPR staffer at a meeting
>> about the issue of the conservative guidelines for back pain. She said
>that
>> it wasn't the surgical "community" that complained, but a single surgeon.
>> This person created a dummy organization, bought some letterhead and a fax
>> machine, and sent out a regular series of faxed letters from this
>so-called
>> patient advocacy group to AHCPR and congressmen until someone started
>> actually to take him seriously. This staffer said that this single person
>> almost undermined the whole AHCPR.
>>
>> Allen
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