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?
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cathy :-)
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