[Magdalen] The Deen Controversy

[James Oppenheimer]

FDR's personal physician did not realize his patient was dying of heart
failure -- not his specialty.  Daughter Anna sensed something was wrong and
got the President seen by a cardiologist who immediately saw the problem,
but could not do very much about it aside from adjusting FD's diet. Too
late.  BP stratospheric and not at that time treatable. G'bye, FD; Give 'em
hell, Harry.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:05 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> We need to remember that the people we knew who were old were
> survivors of a generation of people who died young and of diseases
> mostly preventable and even curable today. My grandmother, who
> died when I was thirteen, had a sister who died of TB sixty years
> before I was born. High blood pressure, thyroid disease, and
> elevated cholesterol killed loads of people. People with both Type1
> and Type 2 diabetes died, the former usually before adulthood.
> Kidneys failing? Too bad.
>
> One of the successes of modern medicine is that it saves the lives
> of people (like Paula Deen) who've lived unwisely. Her life is her own
> business, of course. But she gleefully advocated for, shall we say,
> bad choices for others and she should take responsibility for that.
> -M
>