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Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Wed Sep 14 00:53:21 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Baby Born to Unconscious, Cancer-Stricken Mom Dies" Previous message: Peter Wein: "Re: Baby Born to Unconscious, Cancer-Stricken Mom Dies" In reply to: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe" Reply: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe" So looting, muggings, and assault are OK, as long as you leave the tourists alone? Here's the thing, El: This world is a wonderful place and it is a crappy place, and it is full of good people and crappy people, in every country. We are all well aware of this, and in general we try to do what we can for folks we have the capability to do something for. We all fully understand and acknowledge that some of us are more "privileged" than others. (For instance, some of us have four computers, an X-Box, a bluetooth-enabled cellphone, and a shiny new truck in the driveway--who, I wonder?) Thanks to modern technology and the internet, we have good friends all over the world, even in Namibia, and when disaster strikes a friend, it is human nature (for most of us, anyway) to express concern, and no matter how privileged the "privileged victim" is, if it is a good friend, we want to reach out and offer any help we can. If a natural disaster hit Namibia, we would probaly do the same for you and your family (or maybe we wouldn't now, knowing how you feel about such "rubbish") As I said, it's human nature. Joe is a good friend, and even though there are thousands of people worse off than he (a fact which he has already acknowledged), he is a friend, and friends show concern and want to help. It's basic common courtesy and human nature, nothing more, and calling it rubbish is just basic rudeness. I thought we were all better friends than that. I am outa this discussion. Good night. -- Anna Meenan, MD At Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > >In message <BAY107-F21985DA8B63B002784008ADC9C0@phx.gbl>, "Andrew Folley" write >s: > >> El, I think you are wrong about the lack of looting and muggings >> throughout the world etc. > >Not a SINGLE tourist has been assaulted during the tsunami. Not a one! > >> I have been to the Congo and know that during times of crisis, looting >> and killing are common place. The atrocities in rawada far exceeded any >> looting or complaining we have in the US. > >But that's my point, and has been, nobody cares a dead rat's fuzzy behind >about these. > >> If you want to keep this forus focused on OBgyn issues as you calim, you >> should refrain from such inflammatory comments about us being crybabies >> over here. Andrew > >The truth will set you free. > >el Next message: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Baby Born to Unconscious, Cancer-Stricken Mom Dies" Previous message: Peter Wein: "Re: Baby Born to Unconscious, Cancer-Stricken Mom Dies" In reply to: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe" Next in thread: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe" Reply: Dr Eberhard W Lisse: "Re: Katrina/Doctor Joe"

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