Re: Victims

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Shakespeare had it wrong. Instead of "First thing, let's kill all the

lawyers." he should have said "Fist thing, let's kill all the liars."



Almost all the real crap is caused by somebody lying to create a human

response to their own benefit. (I realize that on this scale of human costs,

the mafia is way ahead of the NCRP/ICRP cabal! :-)



Regards, Jim





on 8/8/02 3:39 AM, hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net at

hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net wrote:



> Radsafers,

> "Decency", evades conflict-creators who advertise for clients exposed to

> asbestos, doctors, or radiation.. The best answer physicians have found is

> "Micra", a CA state law limiting payment to just $250,000 beyond actual damage

> and lawyer fees to c15% - after a million bucks or so. I pay $6,000/year to

> that

> protection racket, as little as any physician I know. Las Vegas is losing its

> emergency room and has lost half its obstetricians.

> 

> Anyone have ideas on how to inhibit trial lawyer disease, without losing

> needed

> redress for actual damage caused by neglect of manufacturers, physicians or

> radiation protectors?

> 

> Howard Long

> 

> 

> "Michael G. Stabin" wrote:

> 

>>> Many thanx for your expression of decency.

>>> Would the "body counters" be nitpicking about "historical

>>> accuracy" if the victims were their families?

>> 

>> I think "decency" would be the key phrase, wouldn't it? If someone in my

>> family died, I would want blame to fall on the correct party (or parties). I

>> would find it indecent if the wrong person spent their life in jail or was

>> executed, or if an industry was incorrectly blamed for it just so that I

>> could get a sack of money out of it. Unfortunately, a whole new industry now

>> exists, formed out of assigning blame for things to people who are able to

>> pay, at times regardless of culpability. Things nuclear represent a big bad

>> wolf, and those who represent them (and have bucks) should pay up whether

>> they are really at fault for the illnesses or not. I find this indecent,

>> your choice of words was good.

>> 

>> Mike

>> 

>> Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

>> Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

>> Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

>> Vanderbilt University

>> 1161 21st Avenue South

>> Nashville, TN 37232-2675

>> Phone (615) 343-0068

>> Fax   (615) 322-3764

>> e-mail     michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu

>> internet   www.doseinfo-radar.com

>> 

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