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Chad Hall RDMS, RDCS, RVT
Orlando Ultrasound Associates, Inc.
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From: "James Smeltzer" <James.Smeltzer@wellstar.org>
Reply-To: ultrasound@obgyn.net
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND <ultrasound@dns.obgyn.net>
Subject: Re: Tom Cruise Ultrasound Maven
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:00:07 -0600
>Guys, this is America, not AMERIKA! If he needs help with his machine -
>and he should get a good professional to help him look at this baby - I
>would volunteer to do this, if he would play with my kids, and sign a
>few autographs.
>
>As a sonologist, perinatologist and American, I believe that the proven
>beneficial effects on parent-infant bonding justify the theoretical
>risks of diagnostic ultrasound. My main objections to "botique"
>sonograms are that they discriminate against the poor, they do not
>provide the usual quality assurance
measures, and they do not address
>legitimate medical needs that are satisfied by quality sonography.
>
>We tape on request for that reason. We also provide keepsake photos. In
>these days of chaotic fragmented lives, the most important determinate
>of good child outcomes (ALL of our main objective) is a persistant
>unconditional positive parent child relationship. This STARTS with a
>firm positive parent-infant bond. This can start with a quality
>sonogram, IMHO. If you do not realize that this is part of your mission,
>you are in the wrong line of work.
>
>Part of the reason that the "botique" sonogram business exists is that
>WE ARE NOT CONSISTENTLY DOING OUR JOB in this regard. Tom Cruise shows
>us this & rather than accepting our lesson with love and humility, we
>jump his ass. We are a bunch of
pompous idiots!
>
>One of the best things I ever did in my career was to train a nurse and
>minister's wife who has turned around and is training people nationally
>from crisis pregnancy centers on the use of sonography in their work. I
>am pro choice in believing a woman should have choice of what happens to
>her body, but I am definitely pro life in my personal action, and in
>believing that it is legitimate use of ultrasound to show a woman the
>truth about the child she is carrying.
>
>If I had Tom Cruise's money, I would find someone with knowledge to
>guide me and do what he did. I would also get a pro job a couple of
>times during the pregnancy.
>
>Please forgive the rant, but our forefathers died that we should be
>free. The only justifiable defense of the removal of any freedom is
an
>overriding public good that necessarily conflicts with our inherent
>private rights - child immunizations and traffic laws for example. I do
>not see this being the case regarding sonography.
>
>GO TOM!
>
>
>
>
>James S. Smeltzer, MD, FACOG, SMFM
>Consultant, Maternal Fetal Medicine
>Wellstar Physicians' Group
>Northwest Women's Care
>787 Campbell Hill St
>Marietta GA 30060
>James.Smeltzer@wellstar.org
>VM 678-290-3035
>Off 770-528-0260
>Page 404-318-3451
>
>
> >>> evsono@pipeline.com 12/1/2005 11:35:45 AM >>>
>Tom Cruise is performing sonograms. No report on his fees or where he
>obtained the machine. The FDA should be interested since this flies
>in
>the face of an FDA
directive.
>
>
>http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20051130/en_celeb_eo/17872;_ylt=AqS4TXlKqErI73ZoxBa35CZV.nQA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
>
>
>--
>art fougner, md
>
>"I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
>Lawrence Peter Berra
>
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