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From: "John de Rivaz" <>
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Subject: Re: Melody's Blunder 
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:24:54 +0100


All this talk about people being "properly medically qualified" to perform 
cryonics procedures suggests a faith in the medical profession that I wonder 
whether is relevant. Maybe it is different in the USA, but in the UK a lot of 
mistakes are made, and poor procedures performed, by qualified medical 
professionals such as


Confusing a vein and an artery resulting in a patient undergoing examination 
under anaesthetic to have permanent damage from a stroke
Throwing away patients' dentures

Allowing patients to become undernourished in hospital by not noticing that they
are too disabled to feed themselves

Allowing patients severely confused from strokes to become soiled and left like 
that for days

They may not blindfold patients in hospital beds. But they will keep spectacles,
taken away for operations, for days afterwards purely for administrative 
reasons, causing similar disorientation and unnecessary stress. 


In short, in a cryonics situation are they really any better than people who 
have had a very narrow education in terms of the actual procedure they are to 
perform? At least cryonics patients are unaware of what is happening. 


The other issue is what these narrowly educated cryonics people are paid. 
Unfortunately many people are paid more for their work than the "man in the 
street" thinks they ought to be. It is very much a matter of opinion. Will Alcor
and SA get better or worse, medically uneducated, people if they offer less 
money? If no one suitable comes forward they have to offer more.

-- 
Sincerely, John de Rivaz:  http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including
Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley
Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy,  Nomad .. and
more

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