Yesterday, I was thinking about TomCat and his amputation, because there is now another reader of PP who is going to have an amputation of one leg below the knee. He doesn’t comment, but he does get and read the Sunday emails. I’ll call him James, because that’s his first name. In hiis case, the amputation is necessitated because, after a bunch of years, the titanium rod and steel screws which were put in after an injury are still not working, and he has never been pain free since they were put in. He was denied SSDI so doesn’t have Medicare, and has had other personal issues, so has never been in a position to demand better care, as TomCat was when providers messed up. I asked for and received his permission to request prayers (and/or of course however you communicate with the universe), so I’m requesting.
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Crooks and Liars – Phoenix VA Predator Doc Faces 2nd Accusation—How Many More?
Quote – [T]he VA does not appear to have responded to everything MRFF asked for—specifically the “immediate and aggressive investigation” of Cheron. We know that because another veteran abused by Dr. Cheron, Stephen Brittle, has stepped forward after reading our earlier story. He had already lodged a similar complaint against Cheron before Rinsem’s case reached a crisis point. He, too, raised the prospect of Dr. Cheron “brow-beating other patients, given how he acted,” in a letter to the VA dated July 23.
Click through for more. This is the same doctor named in a short take from August 24. Yes, MRFF is on it but how many more are there? And more to the point, how many veterans have died because of his fanaticism?
Axios – Study: Greenland ice melt will raise sea levels by nearly a foot
Quote – The study indicates that human-caused global warming driven by greenhouse gas emissions has effectively locked in a certain amount of sea level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet…. The researchers estimated that the ice sheet will lose about 3.3% of its total volume within this century, which corresponds to 110 trillion metric tons of ice and an average global sea level rise of at least 270 millimeters, or 10.6 inches.
Click through for more information. This is based on the assumption that human action causing warming were to stop immediately – and as we know, that isn’t happening. So it’s actually worse. And there’s 96.7% more of it to melt.
Food For Thought
