Wow Helen this Burton website is awesome

From: cathy:- (anonymous@medispecialty.com)
Fri Dec 6 14:19:35 2002


He is a neurologist specializing in back pain problems, but a lot of the stuff he says is so right on about health care in general. These two are particularly darkly hilarious...

http://www.burtonreport.com/InfHealthCare/MongoMindSet.htm

The "Mongo Mind-Set"

In the 1974 Warner Bros. spoof "Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles" Alex Karras portrays "Mongo" a not-too-bright, but well-intentioned goliath of a cowboy. The "Me Mongo, Me Fix" mind-set has not been just unique to the Mongos of the purple sage alone. It is, unfortunately, alive and well in the medical community; particularly evident in some surgical practices.

The discipline of surgical spine care is rife with examples of the "Mongo Mind-Set" where surgical procedures reflecting poor understanding of the subject, combined with a immense urge to exercise often ill-advised surgical prowess can result in creating more problems-than-benefits for patients. One then wonders how often the Hippocratic dictum "first of all, do no harm" and the Razor of Occam has been overshadowed by the Mongo Mind-Set reflecting only unbridled surgical zeal?

...the whole article continues on in this vein...

http://www.burtonreport.com/InfHealthCare/NewGuineaSynd.html

The New Guinea Syndrome

As remarkable as it may seem there are actually primitive tribes in existence today who have not yet connected the act of sexual intercourse with the birth of a child nine months later.

As remarkable as it also seems there are actually physicians providing drugs and therapies (having significant risk to patients) who have not yet connected these acts to the resulting serious disabilities and injuries occurring months or years, later. The Burton ReportŪ refers to this phenomenon the "New Guinea Syndrome".

...the whole article continues on in this vein...

Yikes! How many people here have been operated on by Dr. Mongo from New Guinea?

--
cathy :-)

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