X-Message-Number: 15607 Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:26:28 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Re: Delay Jeff Grimes, #15594, writes ... >Personally I would prefer to read honest self-evaluations than people smearing their competitors. But, an honest self-evaluation is the one thing that never seems to appear here. > Honest self-evaluations are definitely called for. To do it right, though, takes a *lot* of careful work, which means that time, personnel, and other resources have to be allocated. (An enormous amount of detail, for instance, is involved in documenting what went on in a suspension, whether for good or ill. It takes time to collect this data, and more time to incorporate it into a report. Then you have to decide if certain details of the report should be disguised for reasons of confidentiality, such as name of the patient, names of hospitals and useful individuals, and so on. Of course to disguise anything already invites charges of "fraud," "deception," and the like, so you have to proceed with caution and consider tradeoffs, however upright your intentions may be. To proceed with caution means it will probably take more time, which once more invites suspicion; the list goes on.) Without going into details (though some of these should be forthcoming, not necessarily from me) I can tell you that work is going on to provide objective disclosures and self-evaluations. Unfortunately, that won't satisfy the inquirer who wants answers *now* but at least it is something to expect in the future, and hopefully soon. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15607