[From nobody Mon Mar 5 01:47:23 2007 Return-path: <KMATTOX@aol.com> From: KMATTOX@aol.com Full-name: KMATTOX Message-ID: <c36.b2c349c.331cd075@aol.com> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:46:29 EST Subject: Re: [ccm-l] Re: [med-events] Walter Reed To: med-events@ccm-l.org CC: ccm-l@ccm-l.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1173059189" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5354 -------------------------------1173059189 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have no problem with various agencies with special interest in special public health issues being funded from appropriate sources to study exotic diseases. We are in the middle of the biggest gun and explosion and burns and blasts and head injury and amputation war that this country has been in for the last 50 years. I do not believe that the focus of the US DOD and its medical support is focused entirely on these REAL AND PRESENT CHALLENGE when more money is spent to support the 4 cases of malaria which were encountered by US soldiers last year than in the entire development of new knowledge for trauma. This is NOT to say that tropical diseases, parasites, typhus, malaria, and chagas disease are not interesting and need information developed on them, but there are agencies outside DOD that need to study them. I have NO problem spending US Research dollars on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and Alzheimers disease, but with a shortage of dollars and need for innovations in outpatient care and long term support for the soldier that is wounded and has an amputation, it seems that we should fix a roof, and do research in acute care rather use DOD research dollars to do what the VA, FDA< and others are already funding. TOO MUCH PORK to support special interest. We need a CIVILIAN COMMISSION to look at an entire reorganization of Military Medicine, with input from middle level management military medical officers, and other stakeholders. Who should sponsor such a commission, DOD, GAO, RWJ, Bill Gates? We have plenty of money, plenty of brains, and too many special interest brokers that continue to control the flow of dollars and it is not always to support the fighting force or to help the poor wounded military man on the ground, air, or sea. k <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. -------------------------------1173059189 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>I have no problem with various agencies with special interest in specia= l=20 public health issues being funded from appropriate sources to study exotic=20 diseases.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>We are in the middle of the biggest gun and explosion and burns and bla= sts=20 and head injury and amputation war that this country has been in for the las= t 50=20 years.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do not believe that the focus of the US DOD and its med= ical=20 support is focused entirely on these REAL AND PRESENT CHALLENGE when more mo= ney=20 is spent to support the 4 cases of malaria which were encountered by US sold= iers=20 last year than in the entire development of new knowledge for=20 trauma.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>This is NOT to say that tropical diseases, parasites, typhus, malaria,=20= and=20 chagas disease are not interesting and need information developed on them, b= ut=20 there are agencies outside DOD that need to study them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have N= O=20 problem spending US Research dollars on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and=20 Alzheimers disease, but with a shortage of dollars and need for innovations=20= in=20 outpatient care and long term support for the soldier that is wounded and ha= s an=20 amputation, it seems that we should fix a roof, and do research in acute car= e=20 rather use DOD research dollars to do what the VA, FDA&lt; and others are=20 already funding.&nbsp;&nbsp; TOO MUCH PORK to support special interest.&nbsp= ;=20 </DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>We need a CIVILIAN COMMISSION to look at an entire reorganization of=20 Military Medicine, with input from middle level management military medical=20 officers, and other stakeholders.&nbsp;&nbsp; Who should sponsor such a=20 commission, DOD, GAO, RWJ, Bill Gates?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have plenty of=20 money, plenty of brains, and too many special interest brokers that continue= to=20 control the flow of dollars and it is not always to support the fighting for= ce=20 or to help the poor wounded military man on the ground, air, or sea.&nbsp;&n= bsp;=20 </DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>k</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style=3D"color: black; font:=20= normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style=3D"MARGIN-TOP: 10px">AOL now offers= free email to everyone. 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