Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!

From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu)
Thu Jul 28 15:52:10 2005

Times have definitely changed. I did the same when I was a kid, though in the suburbs, not in a small town. Rode bikes all over, esp. to the library, hung out in the forest preserve, played on the edge of the river (but knew enough not to get too close). One of the richest guys in town (owned the local department store) used to shovel the snow off the ice on the river behind his house so kids could skate. But that was then, this is now. We're all paying for this stuff. A man who crossed private property at the end of our street with his 4-wheeler and proceeded to flip it on land owned by Com Ed sued Com Ed several years ago. Never heard how that one went, but if he collected we all paid. If the lady who sued the city and the library collects, we will all pay. Eventually electricity will be unaffordable and the library will close. Eventually there will be no public parks. Liability reform isn't just a health care issue. 

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                                             Anna Meenan, MD


At Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Cheri Van Hoover wrote:
>
>Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
>> "safe" for a 9-year-old whose mother is stupid enough to let him hang
>> out unsupervised at the downtown public library, would probably have to
>> be a ten-foot chain link fence topped with barbed wire.
>
>When I was 4 and 5 years old I lived in a very small town.  I was
>allowed to walk about a half mile across town to the library where I
>spent many happy unsupervised hours.  I learned to write my name so I
>could get my own library card.  That was the only requirement for
>library card ownership.  At the same age I wandered fields, meadows,
>forests, ponds, and streams unsupervised.  Probably unwise and unsafe,
>but I survived and came away from it with a deep appreciation for nature
>and a strong sense of independence.
>
>A lovely stream flows through our property.  Seasonal salmon spawn in
>the creek, and there are trout year round.  In this small rural
>community, our property has been a traditional fishing place for all the
>neighborhood children.  Various contractors and service industry people
>have told us their happy memories of fishing on our property and about
>the kindly old man who used to show them the best places to dig worms.
>
>Times have changed.  Now we are worried about the liability of having
>children on our property unsupervised, fishing in the creek.  I hate it.
>  I would much rather see those children have the same opportunity that
>I had to explore the natural world and develop their sense of
>independence and identity.  I also want to be part of a cohesive small
>town community instead of seeming like a paranoid, selfish outsider.
>
>The explanation Joe gave about the legalities of the situation are
>pretty much word for word what our attorney told us.
>
>I consider the whole situation very sad.
>
>--
>Cheri Van Hoover, CNM, MS
>Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University
>



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