w126,

Hey, I did not enjoy the experience, but there is no lasting anger, or a desire to share random personal stuff here. I just don't find the medical profession particularly unique in terms of being right all the time, or undeserving of customer belligerence when they don't perform up to advertised expectations. Around here you are usually supposed to provide some evidence for your statements so I added the personal experiences. Not intended to solicit sympathy. But thanks and I still keep up with advances in cancer research, so the references to improved treatments being developed is appreciated.

Not that doctors are always wrong either, or that they don't attract an unusually high number of fraudulent, scheming sleezebags with lawyers. There are always two sides to a law suit. If Kerry's new running mate is smart enough to only represent the patients he believes have a legitimate case, and he wins those cases, I fail to see what the problem is. If he took all cases and won them all, I might be a little less dismissive of the implication you seem to be making about his ethics, (if not even more impressed with his ability to argue a case in front of a jury).

Jim

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