X-Message-Number: 3137
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 00:42:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONICS:Unbundling

To Dave Pizer: I'm sure you're right, and the example I gave was overly
simplistic. I was trying to get across in the simplest terms a principle
which I believe is important: that there are advantages to the unbundling
of standby/perfusion/cooldown and long-term storage of patients. A more
specific discussion of this model was initiated by your co-director Mark
Voelker here on CryoNet about two years ago, and became quite detailed. If
I'd had more time, I would have looked it up in order to provide you with
the kind of examples you seem to require. Really, though, I can't help
thinking that you must remember some of that discussion yourself. 

Of course I agree that a patient-storage company is not INVULNERABLE just
because it is legally a separate entity; but for reasons already stated, I
feel more secure in direct proportion to the degree of separation that is
feasible. There are of course other advantages to unbundling such as
consumer choice and profit-oriented competitiveness. 

Re the performance of cryopreservation teams (BioPreservation and Alcor),
I used the word "currently" when I praised BioP's performance, and I stand
by this assessment, which was derived from case histories that have been
published in Alcor's own newsletter and here on CryoNet during the past
year or so. Interested parties can read these case histories and reach
their own conclusions. I feel that longer-term historical comparisons are
not meaningful because the composition of Alcor's team has not remained
constant. As for the future, obviously, anything can happen. 


To David Cosenza: since you prefer to deal only in allusions (with an 
occasional insult thrown in), no meaningful discussion is possible.

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