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| madiba... |
 Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:12 am |
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J <xyewsnswex at (no spam) nalid;"no> wrote:
[quote:51425dc2b4]Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient's healthy bladder, not
the prostate.
It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators
investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but
disappear.
He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the
prostate, investigators said.
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He must've been drunk that day: 40 seeds in the bladder?! However they
get peed out fairly soon. It basically means he got no treatment, so his
later symptoms were more likely due to disease progression and less to
radiation damage..
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| J... |
| Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:08 am |
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madiba wrote:
[quote:86d916ce51]J <xyewsnswex at (no spam) nalid;"no> wrote:
Most of the seeds, 40 in all, landed in the patient's healthy bladder, not
the prostate.
It was a serious mistake, and under federal rules, regulators
investigated. But Dr. Kao, with their consent, made his mistake all but
disappear.
He simply rewrote his surgical plan to match the number of seeds in the
prostate, investigators said.
He must've been drunk that day: 40 seeds in the bladder?! However they
get peed out fairly soon. It basically means he got no treatment, so his
later symptoms were more likely due to disease progression and less to
radiation damage..
[/quote:86d916ce51]
If he was drunk, he still is ....
J
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Philly VA Hospital's Kao: “I’ve always acted in the best interest of
the patients”
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:37:19 +0200
From: safire <safire at (no spam) tele-net.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.cancer.prostate
"Dr. Kao did not deny placing large numbers of seeds outside the
prostate, but he said investigators were wrong to single him out. “It’s
a recognized risk of the procedure,” he told the panel. Dr. Kao’s
assertion was disputed by Steven A. Reynolds, who oversees materials
safety at the N.R.C., which regulates all nuclear materials. Cases where
large numbers of seeds miss the prostate, Mr. Reynolds said, “happen
very, very infrequently.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/health/30veterans.html |
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