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    AMA Sorry About Fighting Health Care, Offers America A Toke

    Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students

    Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?

    Stupid Americans Trust Doctors

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    Image of Paul.B.Dodd Paul.B.Dodd
    09/02/09

    In reply to Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students
    The reason why any of these medical schools are considered elite medical institutions has nothing to do with their students and their MCAT score. Medical students are secondary concern to institutions like Harvard, Yale and Stanford. They care about grant money, public or private, pure and simple. High profile faculties bring in more research money, which is more indirect cost for Harvard and Yale to spend on who knows what. At the same time high profile faculties who are considered experts in their fields will be recruited to serve as consultants for various companies. You want outside experts to review and monitor the data from the latest heart disease drug trial? The same experts also teach at these schools. You would expect these faculties to remain neutral, or even insert a disclaimer into their lectures but unfortunately that's just not done, especially if the faculty was involved in the research and development of the drug.
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/02/09

    In reply to Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students
    Learning not to talk to the press is an important part of a doctor's training.
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    09/02/09

    In reply to Harvard Fails to Shut Up Own Students

    Background story here.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    09/02/09

    @SidAndFinancy: That will never get old.
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    Image of thegreatfratsby thegreatfratsby
    09/02/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: We may have lost that game... and the next game...***... and the next game... and the next game... but we won the only victory that America will remember or care about.

    ***Except for 2006. But it's ok, because plenty of people broke legs and ankles rushing the field. Let's go Bulldogs.....
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    06/27/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    I'd be hiding from Papa Jackson, too.
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    Image of AndIAmTellingYou AndIAmTellingYou
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    Tohme Tohme Tohme has done it again.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    The Kennedys offed him as he had scheduled a press conference to flap his gums about Bobby, Marilyn, and Jack.
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    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    Larry Birkhead's ready to become a daddy for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th time now. See ET's exclusive, heartwarming coverage of Larry jetting in to pick up little Blanketlynn and the gang!
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    I fell off a ladder painting my first apartment. I went to the hospital in a lot of neck/back pain.


    They gave me Demerol and I told them I didn't really respond to pain meds. I didn't finish the sentence before I passed out on the bed. I woke up a few hours later and said, "Do you have some more of that?" They didn't.


    If I could have gotten that every day, I certainly would have. But a doctor who would have been given it would be a suspicious dude at the very least.

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    Image of DorothyBarker DorothyBarker
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    "...a car registered to Murray's sister..." So...a doctor who doesn't have his own car? Yeah, that don't smell right. He's on his way to Belize right now.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    06/26/09

    @DorothyBarker: If he's still around I could use something for the weekend.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    A grieving Bubbles the Chimp was resting in his hyperbolic chamber and could not be reached for comment.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    06/26/09

    @scroll_lock: Liz Taylor put it best this morning when she said "HUuhjjjkk ggargglelee geeyyy."
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/26/09

    @bringmemyTofu: TOFU!!!!
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    06/26/09

    @bringmemyTofu: OH.MY.GOD!!! He liiiiiiiiiives! Hot damn!
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    06/26/09

    @BookishLookish: Mine eyes rolled back in my head. Now that Tofu's back I'll have no more excuses to stop abusing inhalants.
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    06/26/09

    @bringmemyTofu: Said via her tracheotomy incision.
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    Image of bringmemyTofu bringmemyTofu
    06/26/09

    @BookishLookish: @scroll_lock: It is a shame that MJ had to die to bring us all back together.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    @bringmemyTofu: That's what I told him when I gave him the....I mean, yes, it's a shame.


    Next time when you've been gone awhile make sure Arte Johnson's got his affairs in order.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/26/09

    @bringmemyTofu: At least something good came out of it.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    Liza's already got her black sequined tunic and pants combo steamed and ready to go. This morning she observed a moment of prescription-free silence in her friend's memory. Immediately afterward she wolfed down a bagel with morphine shmear.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    Dr. Tohme Tohme, who described himself as Jackson's manager


    Great, a "manager" with access to all the drugs necessary to keep the cash cow up, down, compliant, fucked-up and enslaved. Or is that too harsh? Just thinking of that horrific video of Anna Nicole in clown makeup, so fucked and exploitative. The potential depths of human parasitism disgusts me.


    (And I realize that this one is supposedly not the missing, other doctor. Still.)

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    Image of SuperBien SuperBien
    06/26/09

    @Baroness: Elvis had a similar manager in Colonel Tom Parker . . .
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    06/26/09

    @SuperBien: It cuts the middleman.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    06/26/09

    @Baroness: Just think. This one is the "good" doctor!
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    The saddest part is that he had finally agreed to marry Ryan O'Neal.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    06/26/09

    @scroll_lock: Not bad...
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    06/26/09

    @scroll_lock: Thank you, I was wondering what it would feel like to have hot tea come out of my nose, and now I know.
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    06/26/09

    @misslinda: Hopefully, it's green tea which will help prevent untimely keeling over a la MJ. Avoiding big ol' demerol shots helps, too.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    06/26/09

    @PandoraSpocks: How long have you guys been storing this up?
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    Image of RheaPollstry RheaPollstry
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    I don't have a cadre of shady doctors pushing dangerous drugs on me to help me cope with life. Cuz I'm poor.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    06/26/09

    @RheaPollstry: hello, poverty, you cute little kitten.
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    Image of damedew damedew
    06/26/09

    In reply to Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
    His fingernails will forever creep me out (post skin-lightening that is).
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    06/26/09

    @Sexybackalley: Those nails are an early-warning sign of liver problems, maybe from the toxic skin-lightening drugs he was on.
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