Just what we need -more trickery..

WASHINGTON -- President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet -- and handed out doctors' white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.

In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/tric...vEeRQbxCC0TNZHN

meanwhile..

"The AMA is -- does not have the credibility on this health care issue."

- RNC chairman Michael Steele 10/5/09

gop 2009: anyone see waterloo yet?

Percentage of Doctors who belong to and support the AMA:
29 and dropping.

Pats - ALWAYS get a second opinion.

http://mediamatters.org/research/200906150005

so even 29% of doctors...

have no credibility on health care reform?..

no wonder no one trusts conservatives with answers to america's problems..

ouch!

29%? So that is the number that means doctors overwhelmingly support what's on the table for healthcare reform?

Smoke and Mirrors - and you are buying it.

When polled, "nearly three-quarters of physicians supported some form of a public option, either alone or in combination with private insurance options," says Dr. Salomeh Keyhani. She and Dr. Alex Federman, both internists and researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, conducted a random survey, by mail and by phone, of 2,130 doctors. They surveyed them from June right up to early September.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=112818960

From NEJM



http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1790

This is nothing new:
Controversy arose in November 2005 as a House committee investigating the response to Katrina released about 1,000 e-mail messages between Brown, staff and acquaintances. On the day Katrina struck, Brown wrote "Can I quit now? Can I go home?" He later quipped to a friend on September 2 that he could not meet her because he was "trapped [as FEMA head] ... please rescue me." In another e-mail, Brown's press secretary, Sharon Worthy, advised him to roll up his sleeves "to look more hard-working... Even the president rolled his sleeves to just below the elbow."[34] An e-mail offering critical medical equipment went unanswered for four days.[

On Nightly News (I know, the MSBNC is a pillar of liberalism), they said it was a doctor's group that brought extra white coats.

But either way, those staged photo shoots always look stupid.

I would hope people would be smart enough to know that not everyone in a white coat is a doctor.

Sometimes they are ice cream men!

Mmm! Ice cream! I love ice cream! Esp. coffee with hot-fudge!

But seriously, I hate commercials where they stick someone in a white coat to give them an air of authority. It's so cynical. Advertisers must really think that the average consumer is really, really dumb.

So many people in hospitals wear white coats. More doctors don't wear them, actually. There are a lot of studies out there to show that the white coat is a vector and ought to be abandoned for infection control issues, since few get them laundered appropriately.

I couldn't care less what Obama has to say to nurses. He didn't listen to us when it counted so sucking up now means little. It's always politically expedient to be nice to nurses; it makes for good photo-ops and many nurses are dumb sheep who buy all the nice speeches and a day in the sun with the president. Then they get bupkis. It happens over and over. Obama is no different from any other president when it comes to his dealings with nurses. Actually, he's worse. He made a big show of health care reform, an issue near and dear to most nurses, then bailed on it.

In U.S., Opposition to Healthcare Legislation Drops Modestly - Gallup 10/6/09

40% support passage of a healthcare reform bill

36% are opposed


Chance that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance:

7-in-10

(Source: Harper's Index)