[Mamzelle]

re: Thanks doc(s), expose countless peoples in other continents, to attend a conference)))

What an absurd, vapid and selfish remark. Pleasure travel exposes far more people to pathogens than a single med conference could, not to mention business travel. People with a little money (or borrowing it) simply *must* get itchy feet. I detest travel, myself. should I blame those who bring the bugs home for no better reason than their collection of boring snapshots?

Those same docs are also dying (at least two so far) from being exposed to sicky patients. Maybe they should just stay home when the phone rings, and patient is sick? With a silly comment like that, it must be tempting. Your docs and staff are what stands between you and your recurring "old man's friend".

[jeremiah]

I think that a doctor with a contagious disease, and observably so, climbing on an airplane with hundreds of other people, knowing that a percentage of those exposed will become ill, is the ultimate selfish act. There needs to be controls on travel from other lands. A health exam, before people are allowed into our country. One day soon, if we don't control access, thousands will die, just because of a similar selfish act.