Not to mention the suffering around the world from the cyclone and the earthquake in China. So much suffering on the planet! Those war dollars could be helping so many people around the world and in our own backyard.

So sorry to hear about them. Prayers & vibes to them all...

I know the place. My dad spent over a month there in 2006 for some major heart surgery. I drove out twice from new jersey for quick overnight visits. They do some great work.

you must understand that the Cleveland Clinic is a world class facility, and attracts alot of experimental and cutting edge trials and procedures. Thus you're likely to see some of the sickest and neediest folks there... but those are the LUCKY ones!! Consider the folks who'd like to be there but can't due to circumstances likely beyond their control.
Would that ALL our health-care facilites were like the Cleveland Clinic, or Johns Hopkins or Sloan-Kettering, etc. etc.

Mayo Clinic too.

well, maybe on Rye...

Yep...Mayo Clinic saved my dad's life when I was 16...he had Crohn's disease and the local hospital in Indiana was doing a great job of killing him. If he hadn't signed out AMA and gone to Mayo, we would have lost him then...instead, he lived another 25 years.

Crohn's Disease, possibly many mistreated for immunologic disorder, as some patients have responded to triple antibiotic regimen, leading to possible etiologic agent is Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis ( MAP) . New information may show this bacterium survives pasteurization and thus CD could stem from drinking milk, usually at a young age, a fact the National Milk producers want to keep from press.

As for Cleveland Clinic, hold the Mayo if it is closer, it is just as good.

Milk is also the suspected culprit in causing juvenile diabetes...the proteins in milk for some reason causes the body in some children to attack and destroy it's own pancreas. It has nothing to do with Type 2 diabetes...juvenile diabetes is a loss of the body's ability to produce insulin, and Type 2 is a metabolic disease.

Wow, didn't know that about the milk. Very interesting. I learn stuff on here all the time.

i was thinking about all the people over there who were just going about their day and the next thing they know their whole family is gone. one thing i did not think of but so many families in china only had one child and lost them and now they have none.

i forget the other name for burma. at least our gov't isn't that bad...yet!! i can't imagine living someplace like that. dead bodies just floating all over and they just don't care.

i forgot about katrina for a sec. i guess our gov't is as bad..

the other thing that makes me red hot angry is the vet hospitals. i can't even go into it it makes me sick to think how poorly this gov't well treats everyone but especially our vets...

Veterans' Hospitals... my father was unable to leave his bed for MONTHS from emphysema... he needed his 6-month refill on his meds. They couldn't do anything for him over the phone and he was not listed as "housebound." It took over 2 months for the VA to finally get someone out to certify him as "housebound" so a doc could make a housecall to prescribe his meds. He died within 2 hours of being declared housebound.

My Father fought on Three Islands that took less than Two months
and Thousands of young Marines
In the early fifties the VA Hospital in Cleveland convince him to
take Electric Shock Treaments ... I have NO Respect for the SOB's
Or the ones in Washington DC
I went to Vietnam as a US Marine, but the real enemy was in Myland

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We have a friend who was a Vet having just been drafted after Name ended in the 70's. & Had a late friend who was drafted in Nam. Both went/go to the VA & have told stories about how hard it is to get meds or treatment there. It's a shame...