"A recurrence of metastatic malignant melanoma would essentially destroy John McCain's capacity as the Chief Executive and the American People have yet to receive a full accounting of the facts regarding his actuarial risk." [DoctorsforObama] RE: McCain' Medical Records: Recurring Melanoma, Hyperlipidemia, and Degenerative Joint Disease [from DoctorsforObama]
>"David E. Kolva, MD " wrote: > wrote:
This is a remarkably accurate letter. The American public must have answers to the question of McCain's health. We have NEVER BEFORE elected anyone to this office at this age.
David Kolva, MD Family Physician SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Fratkin [mailto:gatito@gotsky.com] To: Doctors for Obama
Subject: [DoctorsforObama] McCain' Medical Records
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
John McCain is a 72 year old man with recurrent melanoma, hyperlipidemia, degenerative joint disease, and recurrent difficulty with certain efforts at recall.
These are the limited facts the American people have had access to. Over 1000 pages of medical records were shown to selected journalists for 3 hours with less than 48 hours of notice. The only medically trained journalist was Sanjay Gupta, MD.
[Sanjay Gupta is an American physicians of Indian descent and a Contributing CNN Chief Health correspondent. ]
This is the extent to which the American people have been informed. While I am certainly sensitive to the confidential nature of medical records, given the anxiety expressed by many of my patients regarding the risk of lost coverage or lost jobs in this current health economic climate, there are certain exceptions for disclosure regarding public safety.
As John McCain knows, a pilot's records are comprehensively available for review by a certifying agency (the FAA) to insure the fitness of the pilot and the safety of passengers and the public at-large. In the election of the President of the United States of America, that certifying body is the American electorate.
A recurrence of metastatic malignant melanoma would essentially destroy John McCain's capacity as the Chief Executive, and the American People have yet to receive a full accounting of the facts regarding his actuarial risk.
If he has had regional metastasis, his risk could be 30% or greater for distant metastasis to the brain, bone, and lung.
As you all know, melanoma is one of the most insidious, pernicious, and aggressive malignancies our patients must deal with and that we attempt somewhat pathetically to control with interferon, interleukins, and dismally active and terribly toxic chemotherapeutic regimens.
In addition, we lack the simple data to sensibly evaluate his cardiovascular risk as we would any septuagenerian in our exam rooms.
In 1980, Stephen Fox founded New Millennium Fine Art, a Santa Fe gallery specializing in Native American and Landscape, and is very active in New Mexico Legislative consumer protection politics, trying above to get the FDA to rescind its approval for the neurotoxic and carcinogenic artificial sweetener, Aspartame. [http://www.prlog.org/10070694]
In a strictly legislative context, his most important writing has been for the Hawaii Senate: http://www.prlog.org/10056715-hawaii-senate
In his capacity as Contributing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox recently interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev
He has been adamant and resourceful about exposing the charlatans of the sometimes-organic food movement. Take the time to read this press release concerning California Attorney General Jerry Brown's suits against Whole Foods, Avalon, and others, for either knowingly or negligently adding a deadly carcinogen to their body care products and soap, as in Whole Foods 365 Label products: http://www.prlog.org/10079593
He cordially invites all Op Ed News readers to visit New Mexico in 2008!
I think you are not correct, in your overview. I participate in many levels of politics and have seen that my efforts have quite often been extremely effective.
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Stephen Fox (80 articles, 2 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 479 comments)
on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 9:22:02 AM
Yes, I totally agree. McCain must release his entire medical records for at least the last 10 years to the US electorate. Failure to do so should be interpreted as trying to hide something. This demand for release of his medical records must be made in unison by all media and the Internet groups.
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Nathan Nahm (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 64 comments)
on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 1:48:51 PM
We have seen duplicity in our government and in the providers of our consumer goods, including baby food, packaging, fire retardants, even in foods like milk and corn.
We have seen outright lies ignored and broadcast by our trusted officials and whistleblowers silenced and even potential witnesses dying of suspicious suicides.
But that is not to say America is ruined. The dream and the ideals are not dead as long as we are here to bear witness. Many innocents have suffered and died, and no doubt many will suffer yet. But do not despair for our country. Simply because the current power structure is corrupt does not mean all is lost.
If one looks at the trajectory of American Government rather than the sometimes dismal performance, we haven't hit our stride yet. We are still aiming at purple mountains' majesty, undiminished by pollution and extinctions. We are still devoted to the ideal of good crowned with brotherhood regardless of the ignorance and fear dispensed by those who would pit us against each other so we might not attack and eliminate the source of our disillusionment.
We have created great public wealth which acts as a magnet to those who can never have enough. But now we have the tools to keep ever better track of where our money is going. We have forced the Pentagon to admit they cannot account for trillions of dollars. We can begin to bring our exploiters to account as well.
In this election, remember no one will gain high office who rubs the faces of the crooks in the excrement they have been peddling to us. After we elect Obama we can expect him to be more frank and open, but even then, remember what happened when Kennedy wanted to pull out of Vietnam and abolish the CIA.
The military-industrial complex will not go quietly. We have a big job ahead of us but we owe it to our children to help them overcome our own limitations.
A majority of people in the world do not believe the lies broadcast by the current administration. This, itself, is a very revealing fact. Our natural scepticism has never left us. The refusal to accept our lot as imposed by others which made America will never abandon us. Our country and our world is and will be what we make of it, not what we are told to accept. This is no time for hysteria, but for hard facts. All of humanity and the natural world depends on our getting this right and ending the mindless and destructive exploitation and subjugation of us and our planet so that a few may have great wealth.
If the cost of cleaning the toxins produced by industry were calculated into the price, most manufacturing would lose, not make, money. Old technologies and vested interests will alwys be a drag on the present, but we are expanding wisdom and understanding at the speed of light more than ever before. We are seeing the ugliness of our own nature more than ever, but we are seeing the exquisite and enduring beauty of existence better, too. So don't panic. Don't ever give up.
Believe in America.
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martinweiss (24 articles, 4 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 387 comments)
on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 4:11:41 PM
response to article from 16 hour a day Obama volunteer
Here is my latest posting, a very important one, that hits the nail on the head, even though it is an article from the UK, from the London Telegraph!
I hope you and your groups will share it widely as well as take the time to call several of the papers in your area, not just the one or two largest papers, but others, and ask them to cover ALL of the facts on McCain's medical records, which might require that they be released down the line; they will be more damning than his silence about this issue....
Further, I can tell you if you all took several hours and wrote a letter to the editor of most of the papers in your state,just short ones, like 200-300 words, it would have a very powerful effect, before we run out of time for such ideas...so when you call the papers, also ask to speak with the Editorial Page Editors to ask them about submissions as Op/Eds, 600-800 words; SAY IT ALL AND GET THE FENCESITTERS AND UNDECIDEDS ON OUR SIDE WITH LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, PLEASE!
SEE: Obama Would Benefit by Describing His Potential Cabinet Choices, and Specifically What He Wants Them to Achieve, starting, let's say, with Howard Dean, Bill Richardson, and Jerry Brown!
I thought Senator McCain allowed reporters to look at 1500 pages of his medical history including a psychological profile. Senator Obama reciprocated and released 1 page summary. Senator McCain also released a what looks like decent summary of his health situation by his doctors. Medical records, the last time I checked, are private matters. Senator McCain went above and beyond what most candidates, including Senator Obama, do. I thought that Democrats were very concerned about citizens' privacy and scream loudly at what they consider an invasion of privacy. Would you want anyone pawing through the intimate details of your medical records? What is the problem?
If you want to question someone hiding something, ask for a description of Senator Obama's years at Columbia. He doesn't talk about it while he talks about everything else in his life. Has anyone seen his transcript from Columbia? And where is his senior essay? It is missing for some reason. I would like to paw through those. The rumor I have seen is that he was seriously into drugs at that time and had terrible grades. No evidence of it that I am aware of. Personally, I do not vote for a candidate based on what a candidate did or did not do 15-20 years ago but it would be interesting to know what he was up to at that time that he appears to be ashamed of. McCain's early years are a total embarrassment to him. He nervously jokes about those days.
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Mad Jayhawk (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 418 comments)
on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 11:40:13 AM
"Only in Republican America would a black man with a law degree from Harvard, 12 years in politics, four [3 and 3/4] years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and manager of one of the most impressively flawless and forward-thinking presidential campaigns ever not be ready for the presidency--while a white female evangelical with 19 months in national politics and a bachelors in journalism is considered 'ready on day one'."
This is cute. From this snarky quote I gather that the qualifications to be president are: being black, being graduate from Harvard, being an elected government employee, being a junior member of a Senate committe, and having been a candidate for public office for an indeterminable number of years. Is this what people mean when they use the term 'dumbing down'. And, according to this quote, if you are a female, an evangelical, and are graduate of a state university you need not bother to apply. And, the last I checked, Gov Palin is not a candidate for President and Senator Obama is.
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Mad Jayhawk (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 418 comments)
on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 12:14:54 PM
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