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p> Virginia Rose is wrong. I once had the pleasure of counting as my next-door neighbors a family of "boat people." They were proud Vietnamese who vowed never to call Saigon "Ho Chi Minh City." br> -- Kevin McGehee br> Coweta County, GA /p> p> IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DOC br> Re: Lawrence Henry's Calling Doctor X : /p>

One of the medical practices that have allowed quacks like Doctor X to continue to kill and maim their patients is a practice enshrined in federal law and lobbied for by Doctors and Hospitals that prohibits release of "after-action reports" to the public or other Doctors. These "after-action reports" are reviews by Hospitals and Doctors of a botched procedure which include recommendations on how to avoid repeats. Hospitals and Doctors have brought the Doctor X problem on themselves. If some injured patient of Doctor X is able somehow to find out the identity of one or more of the sniveling cowards who covered up Doctor X's malpractice by omission, the patient should be able to sue the coward for allowing Doctor X to continue his butchery.

p>The patient is hurt in body and mind. Doctor X might be hurt in reputation. Who would the cowards rather face? Their cowardice is not about lawsuits, it is about the good-old-boy "protection" Doctors provide each other. Until "after-action reports" on botched procedures are required by law to be released to the public, the good-old-boy protection racket will continue and patients will continue to be butchered and maimed by quacks and frauds like Doctor X. br> -- John Gridley

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