“Cancer of fraud” permeates healthcare system

Now It Is Getting Ridiculous-Dangerous Alterations of Pap Smears

I can understand some restraints on Mammogram’s, almost. With the off chance of radiation actually contributing to cancer increase odds-but cutting out Pap Smears where there is no interactions or risks to women?

The number one killer of Women Universally is now HIV according to the World Health Organization. The majority of these guideline changes target minorities, the poor and those with little access to proper Insurance as they will have to be implemented by the State programs in order to gain Medicaid or Federal Funds. The most active and likely to acquire the cancer causing HPV virus, are the young females yet, they are told to be less vigilant over all.

Somewhere, is a floating Memo or two I and many others are now suspecting. The question is why are women targeted exclusively yet there are no suggested changes for men’s preventive examinations?

One issue I suspect with the Mammogram’s is the FDA’s involvement with monitoring the authenticity of the Tests using the Mammogram technicians. Second falls to mind is the clear chance of reducing Torts by reducing access. Medicine has now become focused on Grants rather than patients and every day larger and larger Grants are awarded reducing the need for financial from the Patients and/or insurance.

The Associated Press

Published: November 20, 2009

Updated: 11/20/2009 09:42 am

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WASHINGTON – First mammograms. Now – in an apparent coincidence – Pap smears.

New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin. The timing of the Pap guidelines is coincidence, said ACOG, which began reviewing its recommendations in late 2007 and published the update Friday in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.

The guidelines also say:

-Routine Paps should start at age 21. Previously, ACOG had urged a first Pap either within three years of first sexual intercourse or at age 21.

-Women 30 and older should wait three years between Paps once they’ve had three consecutive clear tests. Other national guidelines have long recommended the three-year interval; ACOG had previously backed a two- to three-year wait.

-Women with HIV, other immune-weakening conditions or previous cervical abnormalities may need more frequent screening.

Paps can spot pre-cancerous changes in the cervix in time to prevent invasive cancer, and widespread use has halved cervical cancer rates in the U.S. in recent decades. About 11,270 new cases will be diagnosed this year, and about 4,070 women will die from it, according to American Cancer Society estimates. Half of women diagnosed with cervical cancer have never had a Pap, and another 10 percent haven’t had one in five years.

Cervical cancer is caused by certain strains of the extremely common sexually transmitted virus called HPV, for human papillomavirus. There is a new HPV vaccine that should cut cervical cancer in the future; ACOG’s guidelines say for now vaccinated women should follow the same Pap guidelines as the unvaccinated.

But the updated guidelines reflect better understanding of HPV. Infection is high among sexually active teens and young adults. Women’s bodies very often fight off an HPV infection on their own without lasting harm, although it can take a year or two. The younger the woman, the more likely that HPV is going to be transient.

Moreover, ACOG cited studies showing no increased risk of cancer developing in women in their 20s if they extended Pap screening from every year to every two years.

As for adolescents, ACOG said cervical cancer in teens is rare – one or two cases per million 15- to 19-year-olds – while HPV-caused cervical abnormalities usually go away on their own, and unnecessary treatment increases the girls’ risk of premature labor years later.

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Joke of the Day

I was so depressed last night thinking about the economy, government, health-care, real estate prices, the stock market, the federal deficit, Iraq, Afghanistan, global warming, my savings, Social Security, credit card debt……..I called the Suicide Hotline.

Of course they’ve been outsourced overseas…… I got a call center in Pakistan…..told them I was suicidal.

They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck

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When Good Ideas Go Bad

In the State of Baltimore, MD, ACLU is at it again.
That often despised Organization of infringement of Standard Moral Values, have now taken on Baltimore’s State Police full throttle with a law suite determined to prevent private peaceful citizens from being spied on under the guise of Homeland Security ‘Good for the Country’ intellect. Fifty plus cases were exposed showing individuals, mostly involved in the peaceful demonstration against the Iraq war and the death penalty, to have been under State police surveillance for an unknown length of time while secret files were maintained over their day to day lives on Security Systems established as part of the National fight against Terrorism.
Many of those individuals had no idea they were being monitored until ACLU filed for and gained under the FOIA, the files of such peaceful demonstrators. On its ACLU web site, Director Susan Goering states “The documents show that the MSP engaged in surveillance operations against peaceful activists similar to those abandoned in the 1970s with the end of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s infamous COINTELPRO program.” David Rocah, Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Maryland joined her in publicly blasting the acts ; “Americans have the right to peaceably assemble with others of a like mind and speak out about what they believe in. For undercover police officers to spend hundreds of hours entering information about lawful political protest activities into a criminal database is an unconscionable waste of taxpayer dollars and does nothing to make us safer from actual terrorists or drug dealers.”
Evidence has been uncovered Baltimore is not the only State to have engaged in secret spying in what appears to be a political rather than a security measure. States such as Florida, and New York have reported cases using similar methods by State Police and litigation has been acted on or threatened soon.
While innocent peaceful citizens were exercising their rights, followed by State Police, who focused on a yearlong surveillance of their activities, a lone, well documented troubled Army Psychiatrist Stood up on a table and opened fire, killing 18 innocent solders and wounding 31 more in Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5th, 2009. In his files lay warnings from staff, fellow solders, and even from his own declarations of obvious potential domestic terrorism.
Ironically, the fifty demonstrators in Baltimore were in opposition openly of every act he engaged in.

Breast Cancer Misdiagnosis Claims 80,000 Lives each Year: Report

April 30, 2009. By Gordon Gibb

Washington, DC: In spite of all the progress made in the breast cancer arena and public awareness that has advanced light years, breast cancer misdiagnosis remains not only a problem but also an increasing liability. Breast cancer misdiagnosed can affect a huge emotional toll on a woman and her family, not to mention the physical risks from botched breast cancer testing.

And now a noted medical journal has weighed into the breast cancer diagnosis waters with a telling commentary on the state of the union. On March 11th David Newman-Toker, M.D., Ph.D. together with Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D. reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that diagnostic errors are growing. They are often unrecognized and often go unreported.

Breast cancer misdiagnosis claims as many as 80,000 hospital deaths each year, according to the report ‘Diagnostic Errors – The Next Frontier for Patient Safety.’
It was also revealed that roughly 5 percent of autopsies uncover diagnostic errors that, if avoided and the correct diagnosis and treatment realized, death would have been averted.

Robin Gray is one woman who might have been included in that roster of 80,000 unnecessary deaths were it not for some luck and an unseen hand.

The young registered nurse form Upstate New York was originally told that a lump she discovered in one of her breasts was benign. Seventeen long months later, a subsequent test yielded the unthinkable: a malignant tumor that was allowed to flourish for 17 long months while the woman’s breast cancer remained improperly diagnosed.

Robin’s story is a happy one, given that she survived. The New York woman is also serving to prove an inspiration and a source of knowledge to others by publishing a book on the subject. And while she has survived and now calls herself a breast cancer survivor, it was not without great cost and suffering. Due to the incorrect breast cancer testing, the cancer was left to spread to her lymph nodes, requiring additional surgeries and more robust chemotherapy to combat.

Breast cancer misdiagnosis is a growing problem, according to a recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. While physicians who specialized in mammography maintained an error rate of only about 3 percent, other physicians lacking the correct specialization failed to identify breast cancer 71 percent of the time.

In eastern Canada, botched testing resulted in the incorrect diagnoses of hundreds of breast cancer patients. Dozens died and a provincial inquiry galvanized not only an entire country, but also the global breast cancer community.

In recent days a court decision may serve to expedite a lawsuit launched by patients of a former pathologist in the Canadian city of Miramichi. Dr. Rajgopal Menon is accused of performing flawed laboratory work that resulted in an 18 percent error rate out of 226 breast and prostate cancer reports he reviewed at the now-defunct Miramichi Regional Hospital Authority in New Brunswick last year.

While the proposed class action lawsuit includes about 100 people, as many as 15,000 are eligible to join the class action, according to the attorney who represents the 100 eastern Canadian patients.

Meanwhile Robin Gray is but one example of what can happen when breast cancer testing goes awry. Often breast cancer misdiagnosis is the result of insufficient time, or experience in the particular discipline of medicine required for an accurate and consistent diagnosis. Doctors have also been found no be less aggressive diagnosing tests in relatively young women, thinking that cancer is not probable at such a young age.
Critics would argue that all demographics deserve equal scrutiny and especially the young, who may have young families.

Today, seven years after her cancer scare Robin Gray is a loving wife and mother to three boys. Had she not survived, or her misdiagnosed breast cancer been allowed to linger beyond the 17 months, the RN might not have been here to care for her young family.

Breast cancer misdiagnosed can enact both a mighty physical, as well as emotional toll. If your health has been compromised from suspected, or conclusively incorrect breast cancer testing, you should seek the services of a qualified breast cancer misdiagnosis attorney.

as published by Lawyers and Settlements on April 30, 2009

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The Government, Task Force List of Mammogram Prev. Screening

Current members of the Task Force are listed below. They have recognized expertise in prevention, evidence-based medicine, and primary care.

Bruce N. Calonge, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair)
Chief Medical Officer and State Epidemiologist
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO

Diana B. Petitti, M.D., M.P.H. (Vice Chair)
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Fulton School of Engineering
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Susan Curry, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Public Health
Distinguished Professor
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Allen J. Dietrich, M.D.
Professor, Community and Family Medicine
Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

Thomas G. DeWitt, M.D.
Carl Weihl Professor of Pediatrics
Director of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH

Kimberly D. Gregory, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Women’s Health Services Research
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

David Grossman, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical Director, Preventive Care and Senior Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative
Professor of Health Services and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

George Isham, M.D., M.S.
Medical Director and Chief Health Officer
HealthPartners, Minneapolis, MN

Michael L. LeFevre, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, MO

Rosanne Leipzig, M.D., Ph.D
Professor, Geriatrics and Adult Development, Medicine, Health Policy
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Lucy N. Marion, Ph.D., R.N.
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA

Joy Melnikow, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Associate Director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research
University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA

Bernadette Melnyk, Ph.D., R.N., C.P.N.P./N.P.P.
Dean and Distinguished Foundation Professor in Nursing
College of Nursing & Healthcare Innovation
Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Wanda Nicholson, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A.
Associate Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

J. Sanford (Sandy) Schwartz, M.D.
Leon Hess Professor of Medicine, Health Management, and Economics
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA

Timothy Wilt, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Minneapolis VA Medical Center
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

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Government Task Force for Mammograms

An Individual wrote me and asked my opinion of the recent recommendations by the Government Task Force concerning Breast Mammogram’s. It conflicts with the present request of After 40 for Women and Every year. The Task force insisted Mammogram should be done every two years at age 50 instead.

Everyone Take a Deep Breath.

My advice is follow your instincts and ignore the rest. Your body will send signals as it can though it is unlikely you will have it typed out for you. You will however, feel something is not right. Trust your instincts and request a Mammogram if you feel the need. No matter what age you are.

In America, Money is the greatest motivator in the Nation for most of these Politicians and those in such offices. That does not exclude the American Cancer Society, nor the members of this Task Force. One in particular I have encountered works for FDA in a high position of Policy Setting. I was not impressed. Another under the American Radiology. My discernment was they had functioned so long on career advancements they had forgotten how to be humans. Again, ignore them all and follow your instincts. It could save your life.

‘Political downsizing’ is latest weapon for voters

By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
HAMBURG, N.Y. — Joe Killian rose at a taxpayers’ forum one night to bemoan the chronically high cost of government in western New York. “Nothing’s worked,” said the burly, 59-year-old water utility worker. “We’re the Cubs. This team don’t win.”

It’s winning now. Discouraged by unemployment and depopulation and frustrated by politicians’ inability to solve either, voters aren’t just throwing the rascals out of office — they’re throwing out the offices.

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State Police Attempt to Duck Political Spying Inquiry

ACLU of Maryland Rebuts State Police Attempt to
Duck Political Spying Inquiry

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 25, 2008

CONTACT: Meredith Curtis, ACLU of Maryland, 410-889-8555; media

BALTIMORE – Rejecting the Maryland State Police’s contention that the public information lawsuit against them should be dismissed prior to any discovery taking place, the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland has filed a brief challenging as preposterous the State’s assertions that the suit is now moot because all documents have been disclosed, or that the plaintiffs waited too long to sue.

The ACLU of Maryland’s response to the state police’s motion to dismiss AFSC v. MSP was filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court on Friday. The ACLU brief argues that there are strong indications that MSP may be withholding other documents relevant to surveillance of peaceful activists. The brief also ridicules the MSP’s assertion that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs didn’t resort to litigation quickly enough.

“After being exposed and widely condemned for more than 14 months of wrongful spying on entirely peaceful political activists, the Maryland State Police now has the audacity to argue that the public information lawsuit against them should be dismissed because those being spied on were wrong to accept MSP’s response to the MPIA requests at face value rather than immediately challenging them in court,” said David Rocah, Staff Attorney for the ACLU of Maryland. “The state police’s cynical argument is yet another affront to basic principles of open government and accountability. It also amounts to an extraordinary admission by their own lawyers that MSP’s factual assertions ought not to be taken seriously. Our clients and the general public have a right to know the full extent of spying on constitutionally protected free speech activity, and protecting that right to know is exactly why public information laws exist.”

In August 2006, the ACLU filed open records requests with numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement entities on behalf of several local peace groups and activists within those organizations, seeking to determine whether any agency had been engaging improper surveillance of the requestors’ peaceful political activities. In January 2007, the MSP responded that it had a single responsive record, but asserted that it was not disclosable under the MPIA because doing so would reveal a confidential source and confidential law enforcement technique. The MSP refused several subsequent requests seeking an explanation of what kind of record existed, and why the confidential information could not simply be redacted.

After waiting fruitlessly to see whether other agencies’ responses to the public records requests might shed some light on the MSP record, the ACLU of Maryland filed suit in June 2008, challenging the MSP’s refusal to provide even a redacted version of the record. In response, the MSP turned over not one record, but rather 21 pages of surveillance logs detailing the covert infiltration and monitoring of several local anti-death penalty organizations (in which individual plaintiffs were active) over a 14 month period in 2005 – 2006. The MSP also turned over printouts of two entries in the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Case Explorer database showing that one of the plaintiff peace groups had also been infiltrated and monitored in 2005. Contrary to their earlier assertions that it could not be done, the MSP redacted the name of the undercover officer involved in the infiltration, but did not make any redactions relating to any law enforcement technique, confidential or otherwise.

The ACLU of Maryland’s brief also points out the substantial reasons to believe that there are likely other responsive documents that have not yet been disclosed. For example, the brief notes that while summaries of the surveillance logs have been produced, the actual surveillance reports, which were clearly sent to superior officers, were not, nor were the responses of those officers authorizing continued investigation produced. In addition, the documents disclosed indicate that numerous reports were made to other federal, state, and local police agencies, but none of those reports have been produced.

The brief also notes that none of the documents disclosed to date indicate the factual basis on which the state police determined that there was a danger of violence at anti-death penalty protests (which is the only justification that has been offered for the spying that occurred), nor do any documents offer the slightest factual basis to explain why the database entries indicate that one of the plaintiffs was wrongly being investigated as a suspected anti-government and anti-war terrorist, or why the peace group Baltimore Pledge of Resistance was wrongly labeled a “security threat group” in the same database. The ACLU of Maryland argues that it would be extraordinary, and equally troubling, if such labels could be applied in shared law enforcement databases without the slightest factual basis documented in a single document.

Attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Kit Pierson and Richard Rinkema from the Washington, DC office of the law firm Heller Ehrman LLP, donating their time pro bono, and ACLU
of Maryland staff attorney David Rocah.

Click here to learn more about the case:
http://www.aclu-md.org/Index%20content/NoSpying/NoSpying.html

ACLU_of_Maryland_Sues_for_Spying_by_State_Police.pdf

FDLE Freedom of Information Act Request

From: Sami077@aol.com <sami077@aol.com>
To: Bailey, Gerald [Director of
FDLE]
Sent: Fri Nov 06 09:57:37 2009
Subject: Freedom of Information Act Request

Dear Director Bailey

James Martin too superior to answer the common public’s request as my records indicate, therefor I find myself applying to your office instead.

I am requesting under the Freedom of Information Act, any records indicating over the years, any and all acts of spying on myself and my child, that have occurred, on any of your systems, in your records, having knowledge of, pertaining to be turned over to myself immediately.

I am requesting, any acts of surveillance done over the years, by any law enforcement agency in the State of Florida, or any agency contracted or requested to do surveillance on myself or my daughter, over the years.

I am requesting any contact made, through the State of Florida, through any agency in which information was turned over to your files, systems, records or events, concerning myself in the State of Florida.

Next Mr. Bailey,

I am requesting the total number of people the State Legislatures of Florida, have approached your office, with a request for police background checks, of citizens who have or would have engaged with them over the course of 10 years. I would like the individual counts per name of that Legislature, along with the person who requested your services for their benefit. I do not want the names of the people the Legislative body has requested action under the duties of FDLE.

Thank you.

Cathy Butler