Re: Tom Cruise Ultrasound Maven
From: art fougner, md (bengecaj@iquest.net)
Sun Dec 4 08:29:02 2005
Very Valid point Claudia
Quoting James Smeltzer <James.Smeltzer@wellstar.org>:
> 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
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>
> >>> 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.
>
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> --
> art fougner, md
>
> "I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
> Lawrence Peter Berra
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