Remember.....

[Bjorn, Pret]

Your sentiments are widely shared and much appreciated.  Pity those
memories have so little to show for them.  Who could have imagined how
thoroughly we have failed our dead?  It's worse than forgetting.  Shame
on us all.
Here's hoping that some anniversary hence will commemorate more than the
day the world sank into fear and despair.

Pret Bjorn
Bangor, ME USA

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of Ronald Gross
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:34 AM
To: SURGINET: General Surgery Discussion List; Trauma List
Subject: Remember.....

Dear Colleagues,

As I woke up this morning, I remembered back six years and realized that
on that day at this time our world changed forever.  Many of us lost
friends and family, and we all watched in horror and disbelief as the
carnage unfolded.  Had I not spend 2 days on "the Pile" with the
Fairfield Fire Department the second day after the Towers fell, I would
have never been able to comprehend the magnitude of New York, the
Pentagon, and Pennsylvania.  The smells still are like they were then,
the visions will never leave my eyes - and the tears for all who were
lost and for all who have survived have not dried.

I ask that we all look around us at the world that we live in and
realize that the carnage continues.  Let us all remember the past, and
work together to make the future better for our children and their
children.  

Please join me and remember this day six years ago.  Pray for the
innocent lives that were taken, and for the ones left behind to pick up
the pieces of a senseless act of cowardess cloaked in fanaticism.

Best wishes to all,
Ron

>>> David Dent <dmdent2 at MWEB.CO.ZA> 9/11/2007 7:56 AM >>>
Danny

My strategy 1 was to cut.
My strategy 2 is not to cut. An extremely senior American surgeon
decided to
treat a bleeding antral carcinoma in a nonagenerian by chronic
transfusion.
The patient held out for nearly a year, and attended an international
meeting in Brussels.

The surgeon was Jonathan Rhodes, and the patient was himself.

So, yes, there is still a bifurcation in the path of decision. You and
your
patient must decide.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Gross" <Rgross at HARTHOSP.ORG>
To: <SURGINET at LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: OK, kill me...


> Danny,
>
> I say go for it.  Being 90 and active is a great thing - and this guy
is
> probably far more active than half of my fellow 56 year olds who spend
> their lives on the couch - and who we wouldn't give a second thought
to
> operating on!
> My Dad used to tell me that  "You are only as young as you think you
> are".....
>
> Ron
>
>>>> Danny Rosin <drosin at MAC.COM> 9/10/2007 6:07 PM >>>
> 90 YO, active, with a bleeding antral tumor, scheduled for lap distal
> gastrectomy tomorrow.
> What say ye?
>
> Danny Rosin, Israel.

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