The Doctor and Your Uncle Sam

[Your Uncle Sam]

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Following is an exerpt from a Miami Herald " expose " article

....a "HIT JOB" on a good, honest Medical Practitioner

in the spirit of the

" YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT" crowd

 

The complete article can be be seen by clicking here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/02/3214313/hollywood-cardiologis...

 

Your Uncle Sam's response follows this exerpt

 

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3 Febuary 2013

Miami

By John Dorschner
[e-mail]

Mark Sabbota, a Hollywood cardiologist, regularly implants $5,000 pacemakers in patients at Memorial hospitals in South Broward — generating, last year alone, more than a half-million dollars in sales for a manufacturer called St. Jude Medical.

Sabbota, public records show, also happens to be partners with a St. Jude sales rep in two corporations that run frozen yogurt shops.

What’s yogurt got to do with healthcare?

Perhaps nothing. Perhaps a lot. The question is connected to an on-going lobbying battle in Washington over a pending disclosure policy intended to more clearly reveal financial ties between physicians and the healthcare industry — often-murky relationships that have produced a long history of whistle-blower lawsuits, federal investigations and fines.

Sabbota, in a brief interview, adamantly denied any conflict of interest. “There has been no wrongdoing at all,” he said.
Memorial spokeswoman Kerting Baldwin also said the hospital saw no problem with the yogurt arrangement. As a “community” doctor, not a staff employee, Baldwin said Sabbota can select from a list of pacemakers approved by the hospital but has no say over what companies made the list.

“As for why he prefers to use St. Jude, I won’t speak for him,’’ she said. “You’d have to ask him that.”
But several medical ethics experts said such relationships fall in a gray area. They raise what Kenneth Goodman, bioethics director at the University of Miami, called “red flags” about whether the doctor’s motivation in choosing a device “is something other than the best interests of the patient.”

 

Read more here:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/02/3214313/hollywood-cardiologis...

 

 

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To the good Doctor

From Your Uncle Sam:

 

Febuary 3, 2013

 

Hi Dr. Mark

 

Just caught an article in the Miami Herald, written by another sniveling, liberal, class-envy yellow journalist named John Dorschner, of the "YOU DIDN'T BUILD THAT" crowd.

I, for one, am gratified to see that Capitalism survives, even in the presently down-trodden medical profession.

I would much rather have a right-minded, capitalistic professional such as yourself, in charge of my health than a sleazy, jealous, self-righteous socialist bureaucrat who believes that the government knows best and that Americans do not have every right to prosper in any way they see fit in accordance with our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.

 

DO NOT LET THEM SHAME YOU , IN ANY WAY, FOR EXERCISING YOUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND PERSUIT OF HAPPINESS! You are living the American Dream, and as such are entitled to ALL that Liberty imparts to honest, hard-working Citizens. YOU EARNED THAT RIGHT...and, yes, YOU BUILT THAT.

 

Though I shall remain anonymous in this message, I will say, that as one of your patients, I have the utmost confidence in you as a Medical Practitioner, and am throughly glad to know that you also practice personal LIBERTY in your other chosen endeavors. That's the definition of a true American!

I will reveal my identity to you on our next visit!

Meantime, visit REAL CONSERVATIVES at the following link:

http://tpartyus2010.ning.com/

 

God Bless America

Your Uncle Sam

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