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Below is the description of the videos posted on the Docs4PatientCare page at PopModal.com the Conservative Alternative to YouTube. http://www.popmodal.com/Docs4PatientCare.php ------ Hugh Hewitt is interviewed by Jeffers Dodge: Topics include key economic consequences regarding Obamacare, including the future of the Medical profession and the integrity of the American economy as a consequence of the Democrat's actions. The obvious amount of chaos coming from the White House: is it on purpose or mere incompetence? Also, who benefits the most; job creation; and if the bill passes and when the Republicans take back Congress can the damage be reversible? This is the...

U.S. ARMY GARRISON WIESBADEN, Germany, Nov. 30, 2009 – For 102nd Signal Battalion telephone technician Alexander Weber-Fetscher, June 22, 2007, will be remembered as the day he welcomed a new life into the world and helped to save another. Maike Siemer meets Alexander Weber-Fetscher during a surprise visit by the stem cell donor. His donation helped her to recover from leukemia. U.S. Army photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. That's the day his son was born and also the day he learned he was an ideal match as a stem cell blood donor for a young leukemia patient. "The...

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night. Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed. He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said. Rom Houben was trapped in a coma for 23 years and had no way of letting anyone know he could hear what they were saying (pictured posed by model) 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46.

JOINT FORCES HEADQUARTERS, LATHAM, N.Y. (10/07/09) - Members of the New York National Guard welcomed a new "recruit" to the Army National Guard Oct. 6 when the National Guard helped fulfill the dream of a local area boy battling Leukemia. Nine-year old Jacob Kaminski was surprised by his family with a day-long visit with the New York National Guard as the state's "Soldier for a Day." The event was arranged, in part, by New York Army National Guard Sgt. Mathew Starr, assigned to the Joint Forces Headquarters staff and a long-time fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Starr, a...

This can be used like the other zero dollars. Use in your education tactics of others about Obamacare. This is great background information on Michelle, and her views on how to handle medical care. Patient dumping to keep profits up at her hospital, and steer all the poor folks to other places to deal with. She got paid a ton of money to do this to mostly urban poor blacks in Chicago. And now the White House believes Michelle will be the secret weapon that gets Obamacare passed. Right. Not if this gets widely known and out there. That's why...

A hospital patient has become so disgusted with the quality of food on his ward he has taken photographs of the meals and posted them on the internet inviting people to guess the dish. WNS So far the 47-year-old's followers have failed to correctly identify half of the meals featured on the Hospital Food Bingo board he has put on his blog website. Along with the pictures, the patient, who identifies himself only at 'Traction Man' provides a daily review of the dishes he is served. His blog, headed 'Notes from a Hospital bed', begins: "You lie here all day...

British patient Brian Turner, spotlighted on our sister website BigGovHealth.org, was on Fox and Friends this morning telling his story of health care delayed and denied under socialized government care. Turner and his wife understand the real costs and consequences of government-run care and hope Americans don’t make the same mistake.

ANNANDALE, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama hugged a woman who told him at a town hall meeting she has cancer but no way to pay her expenses. Obama said the woman, identified as "Debbie," is a "perfect example" of someone who has gotten caught up and is lost in a broken health care system. He said "she's not getting the best care" and called her "Exhibit A" in the case he's trying to make for a new system.

11/24/2008 - KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea (AFNS) -- A local South Korean woman and the Kunsan Air Base Airman whose blood donation saved her life met for the first time when she visited here Nov. 21. Airman Tamarias Pope of the 8th Security Forces Squadron met up with 22-year-old You Jin Pak, allowing the 19-year-old Airman to put a face to the person his lifesaving donation reached. "Meeting her was a really good experience," Airman Pope said. "Most people that give blood don't really get to meet the person that they saved. She looked healthy. She looked happy. That...

VICTORVILLE — Sheriff's deputies arrested a physician after he lost patience with a patient's husband, punched him and threw a chair at him, sheriff's officials announced Wednesday. The victim received first aid from the injuries at the physicians office, officials said. Sukalpa John Dutta, 36, was booked into jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to San Bernardino County sheriff's officials from the Victorville station. San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies came to the 12600 block of Hesperia Road at 4:37 p.m. after receiving a report of the attack. Deputies said the victim was with his wife whose...

Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center say personal information on about 1,000 patients may have been revealed in a breach of sensitive data. The officials said Monday they learned of the apparent security problem on May 21 from an outside company, which they did not identify. The medical center said it is working to notify all of the people named in the data file that may have been compromised. It's unclear what kind of information may been revealed, and Walter Reed did not immediately respond to questions. Walter Reed is offering credit monitoring assistance to affected patients and has...

Source: University of Chicago Date: September 30, 2007 Doctors Learn To Control Their Own Brains' Pain Responses To Better Treat Patients Science Daily — Physicians apparently learn to "shut off" the portion of their brain that helps them appreciate the pain their patients experience while treating them and instead activate a portion of the brain connected with controlling emotions, according to new research using brain scans at the University of Chicago. Because doctors sometimes have to inflict pain on their patients as part of the healing process, they also must develop the ability to not be distracted by the suffering,...

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- An Atlanta tuberculosis patient who may have defied health officials' warnings by going on a wedding trip to Europe appears not to have gotten married, a Greek official said Friday. Mayor Angelos Roussos of Santorini, Greece, said a clerk from the municipality office informed him that Andrew Speaker and his fiancee, Sarah Cooksey, did not have the necessary paperwork for a civil marriage. "He made no previous contact with the town hall about arranging a civil marriage," Roussos said. "So the wedding never happened. He stayed instead at a hotel for two days, the Majestic Hotel,...

A GP is being urged to call in police over suspicions that a patient had her healthy baby aborted more than a month after the legal limit of 24 weeks. The 22-year-old woman requested a termination in February, when she was 28 weeks pregnant, but the doctor told her it would be illegal. She was referred for counselling to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - a charity which also runs private abortion clinics. Several weeks later she returned to the surgery about a different matter and was no longer pregnant. All she would say was that she 'had it sorted...

Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, and Rep. Mike Lawlor, D-East Haven, said Friday afternoon they do not intend to push for a vote on same-sex marriage this legislative session, saying the bill does not have enough votes to win. McDonald and Lawlor, co-chairmen of the powerful Judiciary Committee and strong supporters of same-sex marriage, said many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed their support for the measure. However, these lawmakers also asked for more time. Gov. M. Jodi Rell has also stated her opposition to the bill, reiterating it again this week. A significant number of legislators have...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2007 – Although recent operations to secure Baghdad are off to a good start, Americans must be patient in expecting progress, a senior coalition spokesman said in Baghdad today. It will take several months before all additional coalition forces arrive in the Iraqi capital, Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said. Operation Enforcing the Law will take time to implement, Caldwell said during a news conference with Iraqi Brig. Gen. Kassim Atta al-Moussawi, an Iraqi military spokesman. “Two of the five additional United States brigades have arrived and are currently operating inside Baghdad,” Caldwell said. “The third...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2006 -- The Iraqi military is making progress in assuming the security mission in the country, but whether U.S. public opinion will allow the U.S. military to complete the training mission in Iraq is the real question, the Marine Corps commandant said here today. Gen. James T. Conway held a roundtable discussion with the Pentagon press corps. Training Iraqi security forces “is a long, slow process,” Conway said. “Unfortunately, I think the timeline it would take to build a fully capable, competent force – and for us to feel comfortable in stepping away – is longer...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2006 -- Two Army combat veterans who both lost something dear in the war against terrorism say they are determined to keep on battling, and proving it as they prepare to run the Army 10-Miler race tomorrow. Left to right: Army Spc. James Stuck, Capt. Matthew Scherer and Spc. Joseph Keck meet the press at a Washington, D.C., suburban hotel Oct. 6. Stuck and Keck are Army combat veterans who both lost limbs in the war against terrorism. They will compete in the Missing Parts in Action team that’s competing in the Army-10-Miler race held here...

Note from Daniel T. Zanoza: During future weeks, RFFM.org will publish a series of columns which first appeared on the Illinois Right to Life Committee's web site. The articles, edited and written by IRLC's executive director Bill Beckman, will address issues which include the dangers associated with living wills, hospice care and issues dealing with patient's rights. This highly important series will provide readers with information a family must have, in order to make educated decisions regarding the medical care of their loved ones. It is a must read. For more information on alternatives to living wills and other life-affirming...

8/1/2006 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- A wide smile broke across Army Sgt. Joe DeLashmutt's face as he spied Maj. Rebecca Lehr across the Wilford Hall Medical Center dining hall. "That's her!" he told his mom in surprise. She saw him at almost the exact same moment. "I couldn't believe it when I saw him," Major Lehr said. "Joe is one of those patients who wove his way into my heart and will remain there forever." The major had been trying to follow the Army National Guard member's progress since helping to break the news to him...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal, according to a doctor and nurse manager who were in the hospital at the time. The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating allegations that mercy killings occurred and has requested that autopsies be performed on all 45 bodies taken from the hospital after the storm. Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said investigators have told him they think euthanasia may have been committed. "They thought someone was...

New Hampshire Doctor Outraged By Complaint ROCHESTER, N.H. -- The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating a Rochester doctor because a patient complained that he bluntly told her she needed to lose weight. Dr. Terry Bennett said that he's outraged by what he calls a baseless complaint. A patient was apparently insulted when Bennett told her that she was obese and could only get healthier by losing weight. "It's an epidemic in the United States, and it's croaking us," Bennett said. Bennett said that it's a lecture he gives to many of his overweight patients. "It's your weight, ... and...

CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq (August 6, 2005) -- An army Blackhawk helicopter sets gently down in the sand in the dark of night. Navy corpsmen shout over the screeching whirl of the whipping blades to prepare the battle wounded Marines for boarding. Shadowy figures carrying stretchers scurry across the field toward the plane and disappear into the fuselage. The remaining Marines on the ground brace themselves and shield their eyes as the rotor wash blasts sand in all directions. In less than an hour from the time they received their wounds, each Marine will be in safe hands...

SPRINGFIELD -- Black lawmakers lashed out Thursday against a deal struck earlier this week that would limit jury awards in medical malpractice cases, and warned Gov. Blagojevich not to count on their political support if he goes along with it. "Sooner or later, the black community is going to rise, and they're going to have to respond to us," said Sen. Kwame Raoul (D-Chicago). "I hope the governor thinks about that before signing this legislation. We've got an election next year, so the Black Caucus can be effective in that regard." A House committee approved the deal Thursday, and the...

The following is a personal story about something that happened to me and my family. My mom was recently told that she needed to have an extremely dangerous surgery in order to correct an irregular heartbeat. In order to correct this problem, we had to travel to Oklahoma City. We checked into a motel called the "Comfort Inn" My sister and I stayed in one room, and my grandparents stayed in the room right next to ours. My dad stayed at the hospital with my mom the entire time. When we got to the motel we quickly realized that we...

SPRINGFIELD - Two separate bills, both with caps on pain and suffering, moved slowly through the House and Senate on Thursday as Illinois lawmakers continue to heatedly debate the contentious issue of medical malpractice legislation. The House bill calls for a limit of $250,000 on non-economic damage awards against a physician and a $500,000 limit on awards against hospitals. The Senate bill sets caps at $500,000 for physicians and $1 million on hospitals. State Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, has said throughout the current legislative session that legislators must approve "meaningful" medical malpractice legislation. He said the House version of the...

SPRINGFIELD -- Even as trial lawyers and unions began furiously lobbying lawmakers to oppose a measure that would cap non-economic damages in doctor malpractice cases at $250,000 for physicians and $500,000 for hospitals, a House committee advanced it Wednesday. But after lawmakers screamed at each other during a debate that lasted for hours in the full House, they ultimately rejected a plan to raise those numbers to $1 million for doctors and $2 million for hospitals. As Democrats pledged to pass some sort of bill capping malpractice awards, doctors pledged to work to strip some of the stricter insurance regulations...

SOUTH BEND -- A man with Alzheimer's disease who was wandering amidst traffic in the middle of a busy street suffered multiple injuries when a South Bend police officer used a Taser on him Friday night while attempting to coax him to safety. Thompson Thewo, 65, suffered deep cuts to his face, a fractured arm and a dislocated elbow after the officer tried to keep him out of the Ironwood Drive and Lincoln Way East intersection. Thewo hurt his face during a fall after he was hit by the first of two Taser probes, then suffered the arm injury when...

MONROE — A man who last night shot and killed his 5-year-old grandson before turning the gun on himself suffered from depression and previously alluded to hurting himself, Monroe Police Chief Tim Quenzer said. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office identified the man as Roy Bryan Hetherwick, 58, and the boy as Roy Brennan Hetherwick, 5. According to Hetherwick's wife, Quenzer said, Hetherwick took medication for depression but had never talked of injuring the child. In a release issued this afternoon, Monroe police said officers responded to the house on July 2, when they found Hetherwick "despondent and feeling suicidal."...

Rhetoric ANNOUNCER: “Step right up, step right up. Watch the amazing George Bush take three sides of an issue. Gasp as he takes credit for bills he opposed. Gawk in amazement as you listen to George Bush flip-flop on the Patients Bill of Rights.”PRESIDENT BUSH:  “That’s not true, I do support a national Patients’ Bill of Rights. As a matter of fact, I brought Republicans and Democrats together to do just that in the state of Texas, to get a Patients’ Bill of Rights through.”ANNOUNCER:  “The amazing George Bush actually vetoed the Patients’ Bill of Rights. Then it became...

Dr. Bruce W. Wilkin, a rural physician in Nevada, has recently been in the news. He is one of thousands of physicians who are facing legal challenges for his professional treatment of patients in pain.CPAIN.ORG has been provided with this Press Release in which Dr. Wilkin tells his side of the story.RURAL NEVADA DOCTOR FACES  THREATENED LICENSE REVOCATION FOR TREATING CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS February 19, 2004 Deputy Attorney General, Richard J. Legarza, legal counsel for the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners, has filed 19 unspecified charges of malpractice against Bruce W. Wilkin, M.D., a 64 year-old physician who has...

The day may be coming when you will call your doctor in the middle of the night with an ailment and he will tell you, ''Say two prayers and call me in the morning.'' Doctors who believe in the power of prayer are increasing. The cover story in a recent issue of Newsweek magazine carried the headline ''God and Health: Is Religion Good Medicine? Why Science is Starting to Believe.'' In the Nov. 10 article, Newsweek's Claudia Kalb wrote that many of today's doctors are beginning to ''embrace the God they banished from the clinic long ago in favor of...

Saddam was captured this morning. No doubt there's been a sigh of relief in Washington. But most importantly, the majority of Iraqis must be feeling more safe and secure. Is it necessary to remind eveyone of why Iraqis would feel relief in light of Saddam's legacy? An estimated 300,000 dead Iraqis lay in some 260 mass graves, 40 of which have been confirmed to date. Saddam's rule meant torture chambers, dropping posion gas on civilians, starting an 8-year war with Iran which claimed a million lives, etc. Imagine if Hitler would've been running around in post-war Germany. Kind of unsettling,...

The patient is bleeding us dry but shows few signs of getting better (Filed: 25/09/2003) Labour vowed to save the NHS - but it is proving an expensive promise. In the fourth part of our investigation into the state of public services Celia Hall gives the money-hungry beast a check-up. During almost 20 years in opposition, there was one issue on which Labour could rely for voter support: the National Health Service. It had been the party in power when the NHS was established in 1948 and felt that it possessed proprietorial rights. As demands for health care grew, Labour...

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A woman in southeastern Thailand is returning to the hospital where her uterus was taken out nearly six years ago - this time for surgery to remove the forceps that doctors left behind. Lamphan Yinsuth, 46, has had stomach pains since her hysterectomy at Chanthaburi province's Prapoklao Hospital in November 1997. X-rays in April revealed that the pains were caused by the 6-by-29 centimeter (2.4-by-11.4 inch) forceps lodged in her abdomen. After filing a complaint to the Medical Council, a national association of doctors, the hospital agreed to compensate Yinsuth 400,000 baht (US$9,520) for the operation...

A black woman who is to undergo a foot amputation was at first offered a white artificial replacement because it was cheaper, a hospital has admitted. Ingrid Nicholls, 46, from Calcot near Reading, is yet to undergo the operation and health chiefs have now backed down and offered her a prosthetic matching her own skin colour after she complained. A Royal Berkshire Hospital official is said to have told her: "Sorry, they only come in pink shades." The single mum told the Daily Mirror: "We have black Cabinet ministers, judges and doctors but apparently only false limbs for white people....

<p>FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) The state has suspended the license of a New Hampshire dentist for refusing to treat a lesbian patient and for berating another patient.</p> <p>The Board of Dental Examiners found that in March 1999, Joseph Roper Jr. refused to treat Tricia Thompson, a patient of his for almost three years, for a painful infected tooth after he found out that she considered herself married to a female partner.</p>

Anatomy of the deadly China syndrome Virus Sars is first of many epidemics to come Ian Sample, science correspondent Friday April 25, 2003 The Guardian We're unsure where it came from, have no treatment for it and no idea when or where it will spread next. The virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome is shrouded in unknowns. But two things are agreed upon: it's lethal, and it's not going to go away. What's more, we can look forward to far more new and extremely dangerous viruses in the next few years. In mid-February, a retired Chinese doctor, Liu Jianlun,...

Who is the best patient? Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on. The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered." The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians. Everything inside them is color-coded." The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best; everything inside them is in alphabetical order." The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers. They always understand when you have a few parts left over at the end and when...

<p>A Connecticut hospital profiled this week in a Chicago Tribune series is suing a former patient and the widower of another patient, alleging they violated a confidentiality agreement by speaking to the newspaper.</p> <p>In addition, Bridgeport Hospital obtained a temporary restraining order Thursday barring the patient, family members or their attorney from publicly discussing their medical cases or details of their settlement with the hospital that was sealed in May 2001.</p>