On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:51:58 GMT, john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp)
wrote:
>On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:14:25 +0100, Tim C.
>wrote:
>
>
>>>What's the leap then? No one here has provided one iota of proof that
>>>this didn't happen to her. There is an online petition mostly signed
>>>by Brits supporting her with her response. The rule apparently is
>>>that whoever is able (I won't say responsible but I haven't seen
>>>anyone stepping up claiming responsibility for it--I wonder why) to
>>>make decisions like this can, in fact, make them and impose them
>>>against a patient's own doctor's views, against clear market practice
>>>where the same drug is routinely used in many other countries and all
>>>the rest. And all of this without apparently much, if any, recourse
>>>on the decision. So, instead of blather like this, why don't you try
>>>to address all that? Because you can't?
>>
>>I don't doubt for one minute that what the NYT says happened to the
>>women is true - more or less. But it has absolutely no relevance or
>>logical connection to the fact that a such a rule exists or not.
>>Do we have to do all your thinking for you? Can't you get your family
>>involved.
>
>You can't even do your own thinking much less mine. If there is not
>some rule/policy allowing decisions like this to be made, how was it
>then made? Where did they get the authority to do it?
Is that how it works in the US? You can't do anything unless there is
a rule specifically allowing it? No, I didn't think so. |