Yes I think I type-o'd her age, but I'd have to check her facesheet to correct it so, oh, well!
And the day I don't hear that I look too young to be a doctor, I'll be so sad!

Recently I attended to the patient who hasn't had medical aid cover or funds to be treated in private hospital. I advised him to use State's facilities. The patient's response was “I’d rather die!". (Eventually he managed to arrange funds). This was uneducated person from rural area which proves that level of education doesn't have anything to do with common sense and with deep, grassroots understanding that socialist health care, as socialist anything else is stinking failure.

She wrote her Ph.D. thesis at the age of 18? Are you sure she's not 81?

Judging from your photo, it looks like you became a doctor at 18, however, so maybe she did too!

--Brant

Today a patient asked ME what I thought about this whole healthcare debate. This is only the second time a patient has asked me. We had a wonderful discussion! This lovely older lady had written her Ph.D. thesis on Socialism, and why the United States should not follow socialist policies in 1956. I couldn't help but think about the context of that time and that it was a year later that AS was published. I ended up giving her one of my "Nobamacare" bumper stickers and she's going to my site when she gets discharged home. (She's on the web at age 71!) I wanted to post a positive experience regarding this debate. It's so rare to speak to a proud capitalist, as opposed to all the erudite socialists I usually meet!

I don't think Obama has the clout to get it passed TBH.

Great stuff. Maintain the rage! I've taken the liberty of turning this post into a new thread and placing it at the top of the page.

Have you approached the Glenn Beck show?

I'm curious. Did you get the Alinsky connection here or were you already aware of it?

I've been busting my ass today between psychotherapy sessions with my clients to make the case for freedom in healthcare while some of you evidently did absolutely nothing to prevent the government from becoming a pimp between you and whatever doctors will prostitute themselves to take care of your "unhappy endings" in the future.

Please, pussycats, here kitty, kitty, find your way to www.doctorsonstrike.com and make your herd-less voice heard! Go to the "Political Ammunition" menu (http://www.doctorsonstrike.com...) and tell Congress what you think.

Don't just fiddle while Rome is burning--the House of Representatives just released a nasty bill that will kill freedom in medicine as we know it. Please don't do the wishful thinking thing. Grab your internal free-will rheostat, turn up the light, and look at the reality of what is about to happen. Yeah, I know it is very hard to look at! Grab your internal free-will audio volume control, twist it, turn up the volume, and listen to what you don't want to hear but needs to be heard. Yeah, I know it is very hard to listen to!

Ugly and discordant as it is, please don't evade the fact that we are being marched pell-mell into health care hell and now is the time to yell to everyone you know that you will NOT allow the government to fuck with your relationship with your doctor because you don't want anyone fucking with your doctor's mind while he or she is fucking around with the health of your body, much less your mind!

Yeah, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!

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Here are my efforts on the internet to oppose this crap for today. (Feeling guilty yet? Good!):

Dr. Garamoni Comments at Forbes online
14/07/09 08:31 PM Filed in: Public Health Policy

On Independence Day, Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine was launched to take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare (www.doctorsonstrike.com). Our most pressing goal is to mobilize doctors to go on strike against any new government healthcare plans. We'll today it looks like that is about to happen.

Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence for Doctors, recognizes that doctors and patients have inalienable rights; Washington’s takeover of healthcare will violate these rights — the heart of the healthcare system; and the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm to the health care system as well as the patients in this system.

Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the heart of our healthcare system — an industry already clogged with more government control than any others. This massive dose of statism will induce grave waves of arrhythmia — inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.

We must act NOW to bring a halt to this leftist-led, lemming-like leap into the sea of statism. We want the country to know — in advance — that doctors will strike if a new government healthcare program is established.

Inspired by the novel, Atlas Shrugged, we are encouraging doctors to shrug off the burdens of statism and go on strike by refusing to participate in ANY new government healthcare plans and by withdrawing from ALL other government plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE.

We have drawn a line in the sand and today certain members of Congress just crossed it. Supporters of this bill will have hell to pay when they are voted out of office. Their former constituents may not exactly welcome them with open arms. And neither will the doctors they formerly represented and betrayed. We take our inalienable rights quite seriously. Tell Congress "no!"
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Dr. Garamoni’s posted the above comments on 7/14/09 in response to a Forbes.com article by Michael Maiello, Rights And Wrongs of Health Care Reform (http://rate.forbes.com/comment...).
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Dr. Garamoni Comments at Seattle Times online
14/07/09 08:19 PM Filed in: Public Health Policy | Comments Posted Online

On Independence Day, Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine was launched to take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare (www.doctorsonstrike.com). Our long-term objective is to supply healthcare providers with intellectual ammunition to win the “philosophical war” against statism in medicine. Our most pressing goal is to mobilize doctors to go on strike against any new government healthcare plans. We'll today it looks like that is about to happen.

Doctors on Strike published own founding document, the Declaration of Independence for Doctors, which recognizes that doctors and patients have inalienable rights; Washington’s takeover of healthcare will violate these rights — the heart of the healthcare system; and the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm to the health care system as well as the patients in this system.

Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the heart of our healthcare system — an industry already clogged with more government control than any others. This massive dose of statism will induce grave waves of arrhythmia — inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.

We must act NOW to bring a halt to this leftist-led, lemming-like leap into the sea of statism. We want the country to know — in advance — that doctors will strike if a new government healthcare program is established.

Inspired by the novel, Atlas Shrugged, we are encouraging doctors to shrug off the burdens of statism and go on strike by refusing to participate in ANY new government healthcare plans and by withdrawing from ALL other government plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE.

We have drawn a line in the sand and today certain members of Congress just crossed it. Supporters of this bill will have hell to pay when they are voted out of office. Their former constituents may not exactly welcome them with open arms. And neither will the doctors they formerly represented and betrayed. We take our inalienable rights quite seriously.

A doctors’ strike will hopefully mobilize voters to persuade politicians to vote against any public option: When the public knows in advance that doctors are planning to strike, they will flood politicians with angry calls, emails, and letters. Will politicians ever listen? I don’t know, but we’ll soon learn the answer to another question, ‘Who is John Galt?’ Stay tuned.”

We encourage everyone to take "The Trader's Oath" and support all the doctors who go on strike against this unconstitutional and immoral violation of our individual rights:

“I swear by my life, and my love of it, that as a doctor, as a patient, as a human being, I will forever defend the right of every doctor, every patient, every human being to be treated as a trader among traders, not a slave under masters, nor a master over slaves.”
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Dr. Garamoni Comments at The Washing Post online
14/07/09 07:55 PM Filed in: Public Health Policy | Comments Posted Online

WillSeattle stated, "And all doctors practicing on American soil should be required by law to accept any patient who shows up at their doorstep for treatment for something covered in the public plans."

Not if doctors have anything to say about that. On Independence Day, Doctors on Strike for Freedom in Medicine was launched to take on the mission of preserving, protecting, and promoting freedom in healthcare (www.doctorsonstrike.com). Our most pressing goal is to mobilize doctors to go on strike against any new government healthcare plans. We'll it looks like that is about to happen. Our long-term objective is to supply healthcare providers with intellectual ammunition to win the “philosophical war” against statism in medicine.

Doctors on Strike published own founding document, the Declaration of Independence for Doctors, which recognizes that doctors and patients have inalienable rights; Washington’s takeover of healthcare will violate these rights — the heart of the healthcare system; and the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm to the health care system as well as the patients in this system.

Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the heart of our healthcare system — an industry already clogged with more government control than any others. This massive dose of statism will induce grave waves of arrhythmia — inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.

We must act NOW to bring a halt to this leftist-led, lemming-like leap into the red sea of statism. We want the country to know — in advance — that doctors will strike if a new government healthcare program is established.

Inspired by the novel, Atlas Shrugged, we are encouraging doctors to shrug off the burdens of statism and go on strike by refusing to participate in ANY new government healthcare plans and by withdrawing from ALL other government plans, including Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, and others.

We have drawn a line in the sand and these members of Congress have just crossed it. Supporters of this bill will have hell to pay when they are voted out of office. Their former constituents may not exactly welcome them with open arms. And neither will the doctors they formerly represented and betrayed. We take our inalienable rights quite seriously.

A doctors’ strike will hopefully mobilize voters to persuade politicians to vote against any public option: When the public knows in advance that doctors are planning to strike, they will flood politicians with angry calls, emails, and letters. Will politicians ever listen? I don’t know, but we’ll soon learn the answer to another question, ‘Who is John Galt?’ Stay tuned.”

We encourage everyone to take "The Trader's Oath" and support all the doctors who go on strike against this unconstitutional and immoral violation of our individual rights:

“I swear by my life, and my love of it, that as a doctor, as a patient, as a human being, I will forever defend the right of every doctor, every patient, every human being to be treated as a trader among traders, not a slave under masters, nor a master over slaves.”
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Quintessential Quackery: House Releases Health-Care Reform Bill
14/07/09 07:46 PM Filed in: Public Health Policy

These quacks are hell-bent on marching us pell-mell into health care hell!
Contact your senators and representative now before it is too late! It is easy--click here.
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Quintessential Quackery: The House Today Releases Its Health-Care Reform Bill
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Dr. Garamoni comments at The Daily News Tribune, Waltham, Mass
14/07/09 11:28 AM Filed in: Public Health Policy | Comments Posted Online

Yes, Washington politicians are working feverishly because they are infected with a virulent form statism and are poised to inject a lethal dose of it into the heart of our healthcare system - an industry already clogged with more government control than any other. This massive dose of statism would induce grave waves of arrhythmia - inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.

These disturbances would become so distressing to the American people that Alinsky-inspired statists - opportunists that they are - would be able to exploit each new healthcare crisis as another opportunity to inject another dose of statist medicine into the system.

Given this ominous political landscape, we must act now to bring a halt to this statist-led, lemming-like leap into health care hell.

Sen. Moore calls longs for 'right care at the right time in the right place' while ignoring the individual rights of doctors and their patients. This road to a government takeover of medicine is being laid on the foundational beliefs that there is a universal right to healthcare, that we are morally and legally obligated to respect this right, and, therefore, the government has the moral and constitutional authority to provide for universal healthcare.

The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that our government was instituted to secure these rights, and that government itself derives its powers from the consent of the governed.

Search as long and hard as you like, but you will not find a right to healthcare in the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, or U.S. Constitution. Healthcare products and services are to be bought and sold as are any other products or services in the marketplace. There is no inalienable right to healthcare. Government healthcare is unconstitutional.

Throughout history, we see that benevolence motivates more fortunate people to help less fortunate people meet their basic needs. This does not mean that government has the moral or constitutional authority to force us to be charitable. Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave right now.

The rights of doctors, patients, and other players in the healthcare system are set forth in The Declaration of Independence for Doctors posted at (www.doctorsonstrike.com). We need to preserve, protect, and defend these rights in any health care reform bills being considered in Congress.

Patients and doctors - as citizens - have inalienable rights, including the right to voluntarily buy and sell healthcare services in a free market; they have the right to negotiate mutually acceptable terms and conditions in their trading relationships - without governmental interference.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to compel (“mandate”Winking individuals to be covered by healthcare insurance, or to compel (“mandate”Winking employers of any size to provide healthcare insurance to employees; such mandates are immoral and unconstitutional because they violate the rights of employees and business owners.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to force (“surcharge”Winking any one group the productive, the creators of wealth, to pay for the healthcare of any other group the unproductive, the looters of wealth; this is a nothing more than stealthy stealing an unjust expropriation and transfer of wealth that is immoral and unconstitutional because it violates the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to shift the financial burden of healthcare from one group, the present generation of patients, onto the backs of another group, the next generation of taxpayers; this is generational theft a form of stealthy stealing an unjust expropriation and transfer of wealth that is immoral and unconstitutional because it violates the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The genius of our framers is that they formally recognized in our founding documents that the purpose of government is to protect inalienable rights, not violate them -- that the constitution protects inalienable rights as a sort of firewall against the power of greedy and needy factions in a fickle democracy factions that are easily persuaded to vote for vote-hungry, thuggish politicians to get them to do their stealing and other dirty work for them.

Tell Congress to vote “no” on any government option and “no” on any mandates for individual and employer coverage -- precisely because these are immoral and unconstitutional violations of our inalienable rights.

Using my Imac and RapidWeaver, I've done very well (#1) on my local website for Ponte Vedra Psychologists www.drgaramoni.com and all I'm asking here is for charitable ways to improve www.doctorsonstrike.com, an already established site.

Thanks,

greg

If you are working on your web presence on your own, and do not have time to learn alot of the web technologies you might wish you knew how to use/program in, then you might want to consider taking a look at xSite Pro 2.

http://www.xsitepro.com/

It is pretty nifty and for $200, I think, it has alot of goodies. You can add multimedia content, manage updates to your site. Very little technical know-how required. It is a nice package. Obviously, it is in no way a substitute for having a professional hand-code a site for you, but check it out. You might find that it will be helpful to you.

Just checked Google Analytics: Since DOCTORS ON STRIKE was launched 10 days ago, people from 41 states and 17 countries have visited our site.

The word is spreading fast and that is encouraging.

Thanks for herding yourselves (yourself?)!

Greg

iGod,

Oh my god!

Your site is captivating!

I am impressed.

I am a charity case. I'm doing what I'm doing a a shoe string.

iAmMereEarthling,

Greg

I thought SOLO dudes and dudettes would like to read some of my comments in response to this 7/10/09 article in the online site for the Post-Bulletin, in Rochester, MN (www.Post-Bulletin.com)
Mayo Clinic leery of public health plan
7/10/2009 11:45:02 PM
By Heather J. Carlson
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
ST. PAUL -- Concern about how a public health care plan might affect Minnesota's health care system dominated a public forum on Friday sponsored by Mayo Clinic.
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DrGreg
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Posted on 7/11/2009 at 10:11:58 AM
Washington politicians are poised to inject a lethal dose of statism into the heart of our health care system - an industry already clogged with more government control than any other. This massive dose of statism would induce grave waves of arrhythmia -- inflation, price controls, doctor shortages, waiting periods, and rationing.

The road to socialized medicine is being laid on the foundational beliefs that there is a universal right to healthcare, that we are morally and legally obligated to respect this right, and, therefore, the government has the moral and constitutional authority to provide for universal healthcare.

The Declaration of Independence acknowledges that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that our government was instituted to secure these rights, and that government itself derives its powers from the consent of the governed.

Search as long and hard as you like, but you will not find a “right to healthcare” in the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence, or U.S. Constitution. Healthcare products and services are to be bought and sold as are any other products or services in the marketplace. There is no inalienable right to healthcare. Government healthcare is unconstitutional. Throughout history, we see that benevolence motivates more fortunate people to help less fortunate people meet their basic needs. This does not mean that government has the moral or constitutional authority to force us to be charitable. Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave right now.

The rights of doctors, patients, and other players in the healthcare system are set forth in The Declaration of Independence for Doctors posted at (www.doctorsonstrike.com). We need to preserve, protect, and defend these rights in any health care reform bills being considered in Congress.

Patients and doctors - as citizens - have inalienable rights, including the right to voluntarily buy and sell healthcare services in a free market; they have the right to negotiate mutually acceptable terms and conditions in their trading relationships - without governmental interference.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to compel (“mandate”) individuals to be covered by healthcare insurance, or to compel (“mandate”) employers of any size to provide healthcare insurance to employees; such mandates are immoral and unconstitutional because they violate the rights of employees and business owners.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to force (“surcharge”) any one group -- the productive, the creators of wealth -- to pay for the healthcare of any other group -- the unproductive, the looters of wealth; this is a nothing more than stealthy stealing -- an unjust expropriation and transfer of wealth that is immoral and unconstitutional because it violates the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Government does not have any constitutional or moral authority to shift the financial burden of healthcare from one group -- the present generation of patients -- onto the backs of another group -- the next generation of taxpayers; this is generational theft -- a form of stealthy stealing -- an unjust expropriation and transfer of wealth that is immoral and unconstitutional because it violates the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The genius of our framers is that they formally recognized in our founding documents that the purpose of government is to protect inalienable rights, not violate them -- that the constitution protects inalienable rights as a sort of “firewall” against the power of greedy and needy factions in a fickle democracy -- factions that are easily persuaded to vote for vote-hungry, thuggish politicians to get them to do their stealing and other dirty work for them.

A “surcharge” on the wealthy or on soda drinkers or on any other vulnerable group might sound innocent enough -- until you realize that this form of compulsion that is nothing more than theft. A “mandate” on individuals to be insured might sound innocent enough -- until you realize that this infringes on individual liberty. A “mandate” on employers to provide insurance for employees might sound innocent enough -- until you realize that this is a form of stealing. These deceptive uses of language don’t change the fact that these innocent enough sounding proposals are immoral and unconstitutional uses of government force that violate our individual rights.

Tell Congress to vote "no" on any government option and "no" on any mandates for individual and employer coverage -- precisely because these are immoral and unconstitutional violations of our inalienable rights.
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DrGreg
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Posted on 7/11/2009 at 12:03:05 PM
Oldguy commented: "And, Dr. Greg, pardon me if some of us can actually see a causal relationship between an inalienable right to life and affordable health care. Didn’t teach much logic in med school, did they?"

They did at University of Wisconsin where I majored in philosophy. Your mere assertion that there is a causal connection remains as a mere assertion--unsupported until you actually make an argument. BTY, your specious and fallacious attempt at an argument is called "ad hominem."

Cuba has a right to healthcare in their constitution. Check out the airfare and flight schedule. If you don't like it there, try complaining on a forum like this in that wonderfully free country.
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DrGreg
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Posted on 7/11/2009 at 1:26:42 PM

Re: all of the comments made by all of the snarling sharks swarming, swimming, and snapping self-righteously in this sordid red sea of state sponsored sacrifice:

Hitler mouthed lots of slogans that got him enough democratic votes to be elected and then proceeded to trample on individual rights in Germany and other countries he invaded.

In a pure democracy, might makes right, meaning that a mighty majority has the right to force any minority to do what the majority wants. In a representative democracy, the same principle applies -- except the voters get the politicians to do their dirty work for them.

Might does not make right in a representative democracy where the powers of government are limited by a constitution that recognizes inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; where the government is empowered to protect these rights and is strictly prohibited from violating them; where even the biggest majority in the country (everyone but one individual) can’t violate the inalienable rights of the smallest minority in the country -- the individual.

The United States was founded on the idea individual rights. Our founding documents are imbued with the moral philosophy of principled self-interest and the social-political philosophy of individualism -- the theory that individuals are ends-in-themselves; that each one of us owns our own life; that each one of us has the right to exist for our own sake; that no one has the right to force anyone to live for the sake of others; that each one of us has the right to be left alone to pursue our own ends in life as long as we don’t infringe on the liberty of others to do the same; that we should deal with one another by voluntary means; that the proper role of government is to protect our rights by legislating, adjudicating, and enforcing laws that prohibit other individuals or groups -- foreign and domestic -- from initiating force against us.

Our founding documents did not openly embrace the moral philosophy of altruism and the social-political philosophy of collectivism - the theory that the interests of the collective (tribe, church, monarchy, Aryan nation, proletariate, society, “public interest”, etc.) take priority over the interests of each individual in it; that the individual has value only insofar as he or she serves the collective; that the proper role of government is to subjugate the individual to the collective; that the government is entitled to own, use, and dispose of the land, the means of production, personal property, and even the lives of individuals, as necessary to promote the welfare of the collective.

A so-called “right to healthcare” demands that some members of society (taxpayers as well as doctors and other healthcare providers) be forced to serve the healthcare needs of the society at large. Any use of government force to enforce a “right to healthcare” would necessary violate the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

A right that violates other rights is a virulent virus to release in the body politic. How does a localized infection of statism not become a systemic one? Where does it end? Food? Water? Clothing? Shelter? Healthcare? Transportation? K-12 Education? College? Pre-school? Graduate School? Toiletries? Haircuts? Legal services? Art? Entertainment?

How about some free sex while were are at it? Universal sex--that’s the ticket--that’s a winning plank in the platform for some politician to get re-elected! But who would be appointed sex czar? What is Billy “The Rooster-in-Chief” Clinton doing nowadays?

Universal healthcare is just another step down the slippery slope of statism in America.
When will this ever end? Who is John Galt?

Yes, Jefferson and our other founders are turning with disgust in their graves.

13th July

"Barack "The Quack-in-Chief" Obama has planted a ticking time-bomb in the marketplace for health care that is poised to explode in 17 days. Unless people take decisive political action to disarm this dastardly device, ObamaCare will surely explode in the faces of doctors and patients, injecting a deadly dose of statism directly into the heart of our country’s relatively free health care system.

The Congress, overflowing with quintessential quacks from both houses of Washington’s version of a Holiday Inn Express, smartly offers as second opinions their variations of statist healthcare reform ad nauseam.

The left-winged birds-of-a-feather in the media are flocking together, waddling around "The Chief Quack", sycophantically quacking the same quackery, ducking their obligation to air both sides of the debate, virtually assuring that a half-assed hatchling of a healthcare plan will soon be hatched.

Isn't this just ducky? Doctors On Strike doesn't think so" (www.doctorsonstrike.com).

I commend you, and admire your fervor!

I can help you would like some.

http://www.aquatiqdesign.com/a...

ZDNet, a major IT/Tech news outlet, gave Doctors On Strike for Freedom in Medicine (mostly) favorable attention (see http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p...) only a week after a press release was issued about our new organization (www.doctorsonstrike.com). Here is the lead in:
"The latest bit of Astroturf aimed at derailing health reform comes from Gregory Garamoni, a psychologist in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jacksonville.
He wants doctors to go on strike.
His Declaration of Independence rejects any government role in health care, stating “there is no inalienable right to healthcare.” It calls advocates of universal healthcare “statists.”
And then he gets mad."
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Some people will probably respond to the comments attacking me and my position by posting their own comments that sting like an angry bunch of African bees.
I'm buzzing myself and will be posting a principled response tomorrow after I get some sleep.
Supporting freedom in medicine is not my cause--its something WE ALL CARE ABOUT--the health of our health care system is under attack by virulent statism--we are all doctors now!
Gregory L. Garamoni, Ph.D.
Licensed psychologist
Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida
www.drgaramoni.com
www.doctorsonstrike.com

P.S. Posted on the blog, but I should have posted here,I think

To speed " the impending explosion of statism in health care," new diseases are invented:

1
The innovators of necessities
Expand the state upon a new disease.

2
A thousand needs of health they’d innovate
In medicine to magnify the state.

Your website is richly comprehensive. Thanks.

As an injury attorney, it would be a tremendous boon to my business if everyone had immediate access to state of the art and appropriate health care.

Insurance companies spin a 2 week delay in treatment, or a 2 month gap in treatment into an imaginary bugaboo that convinces tort reform era juries that the plaintiff is "faking it"--even when a doctor is called to testify and explain that you do not go to the doctor every day for an injury!

That being said, I DO NOT SUPPORT Nationalizing health care, and I support and appreciate your fine contributions and attempts to wake people up to what this would REALLY mean for doctors and other health care practitioners, as well as the general public.

Individualists are slow bandwagon-jumpers, but you are to be commended for your good work.

Do I need some lithium?

Only if the resident Scientologist finds this thread

I've bookmarked your site and will have a good read over the weekend.

gregster,

Your early, surly, cocky support must have been repressed into the deep recesses of my mind!

Maybe its because your name, gregster, made me feel a bit self-congratulatory?

Thanks,

greg

(ster 2)

Mark,

Thanks for refueling me with your support. I'm doing my best to provide you and others with a useful resource to fight the good fight against statism in medicine! Not just my "cause"-- it should be everybody's "cause."

Since you asked, I've been rapidly adding content to the website for Doctors On Strike (www.doctorsonstrike.com). I am especially eager to have people make use of the "Political Ammunition" section of the site--a very quick and easy way to send a message to Congress about the need to respect individual rights in health care reform.

I put up several blogs today (Do I need some lithium?), one of which I think is quite amusing if I must say so myself--especially if you love Bob Newhart as much as I do. The blog is entitled "FIVE MINUTE THERAPY FOR THE MASSES." Just what the doctor ordered (and will be compelled to be ordered) in the future of government health care!

Watch and enjoy: http://www.doctorsonstrike.com...

Thanks,

Greg

Greg you're not receiving lone support. I commented here about your well-worded website, and you're stickied in medical blue as we speak. I welcome you and your writing here. That makes at least three. I'm certain readers here support your efforts (but I could only guess as to how many will go the extra effort to contact Congress.)

I won't need to tell someone of your obvious knowledge that, following Objectivism, at the best of times, is not a philosophy to take up if one expects popularity.

Getting psychologists to move in the same direction is also like herding cats. That is why I'm a solo practitioner.

Lindsay, thanks for the encouragement. It means a lot coming from you.

I'm glad my mug shot got fixed --I was a mere shadow of my self before!

greg

Power to your arm, and your site, Greg.

I hope you keep updating this thread with progress (or otherwise).

Please don't feel despondent. Getting Objectivists to rally around something is like herding cats.

I keep hearing that Obamadinejad won't even get cap-and-tax through, let alone socialized medicine. I hope that's the case. I fight him, and the ideas that drive him, as best I can in my own modest way.

KASS on!

And please note our press release and op-ed procedures here:

http://www.solopassion.com/nod...

Ross,

Thank you!

Your lone support on this site means more than you probably will ever know and just made me well up with tears.

I'm despondent because of the relative lack of response and support I've received from people on other websites and also from this otherwise wonderful site.

This is very bewildering and quite frankly, depressing. I've felt very "invisible" on some other "Objectivist" forums that shall remain unidentified here. I'm not narcissistically or "social-metaphysically" in need of "strokes" from the "folks" here or elsewhere, but the silence here and elsewhere is truly deafening, and, as a psychologist, quite intriguing. It makes makes me wonder about certain diagnostic possibilities.

I"m not paranoid, but it is as if there were "A Society of Official Objectivists" out there who are scratching their heads, trying to check-out my Objectivist Pedigree ("Has any one ever heard of this Dr. Garamoni before?") and weigh the "risk" of responding to me--someone they've never heard from before--lest they mistakenly anoint me with any form of formal recognition and approval as an official voice with something "worthwhile" for Objectivists to hear.

Well, I've been an "Ayn Rand Sleeper" now for 40+ years -- a "Student of Objectivism" since 1967 -- well before some of the current acolytes were even born -- who attended all of the NBI courses and even majored in philosophy and did my senior thesis on Objectivism -- and years later here I am -- maybe less deeply immersed than others are in the latest, technical details of whatever the "official" nuances of Objectivism are, but still inspired by Ayn Rand's philosophy and sense of life -- guided nevertheless by my own independent judgement of what is good or bad, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly -- to be sure, wiser from studying Ayn Rand (and others) over the past 40+ years.

In spite of the recent and disappointing cold shoulder I've felt from some of the insiders, I am still seeking the fellowship here at SOLO of people who might be my friends -- something like I felt with my old housemates at the University of Wisconsin from the 1960's when Ayn Rand was, well, as I recall from my visits to The Ford Hall Forum, a warm, welcoming, and inspiring heroine for anyone who embraced the essence of her philosophy without necessarily being part of the inner circle.

What has happened while I was asleep?

Thanks,

Dr. Greg Garamoni>

..."The founding of Doctors on Strike coincides with the 233rd anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Doctors on Strike will simultaneously publish their own founding document, the Declaration of Independence for Doctors, which recognizes that doctors and patients have inalienable rights; that the purpose of government is to protect these rights — not violate them; that statism in healthcare violates these rights; that Washington’s plan to takeover healthcare would violate the rights of doctors and patients — the very heart of the healthcare system; and that the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm."

This is good stuff.

Particularly tasty is this "...the Hippocratic Oath requires doctors to take action to prevent harm."

A welcome sight: professionals fighting the state takeover of their professions.

Shruggers.

Catchy, ain't it?

I commend your efforts. And I support you.

But relax. It's ok to say fuck here.