rcj (01/15/83)
I thank Paul Lustgarten for starting net.med so responsibly. My survey
conducted over the past couple of months had given the following results:
47 yes to creating net.med
4 no (not enough interest, not needed, etc.)
4 yes/no, BUT/BECAUSE OF possible law/malpractice suits
For those of you interested in submitting to net.med: Paul's advice is
sound--follow it and there should be no problems with net.med.
On the other things, like HERPES ("H" being the Scarlet Letter of our
time, according to Time magazine).
I urge anyone interested/worried (especially worried) about herpes to
pick up the January issue of Playboy and look at the article/disclaimer
in Playboy Forum on page 60 by Samuel R. Knox. Mr. Knox was a member
of the research team that conducted the nationwide study on which the
Time article was based. What follows is a short teaser from that article:
"The original study was presented to the medical and scientific
communities in the January-March 1982 edition of Sexually Transmitted
Diseases, a medical journal. In that article, we carefully pointed
out that the population we studied was highly unrepresentative:
' The population surveyed, of course, is self-selected,
but it represents a large body of persons who have, to
date, not been studied. . . . Therefore, the generali-
zations from this large group are specific to this
highly motivated, self-selected population and may or
may not apply to the less privileged subjects who
generally attend venereal-disease clinics.'
Somehow that honest and prominently featured caution never saw
the light of day in the Time article. Is it any wonder why myths
abound with respect to herpes?"
The article goes on to dispell several myths perpetrated/perpetuated
by the Time article. Also included is information about the
American Social Health Association's Herpes Resource Center and the
address to which one may write for free information about herpes
(also from the HRC).
I just wanted people to get the word about net.med again, so plez
limit any discussions about herpes or any other health/medical
related issue to net.med instead of net.misc.
Thank u 4 ur time and for the ad space in net.misc for net.med,
The MAD Programmer
alias: Curtis Jackson ...!floyd!burl!rcj
...!sb1!burl!rcj
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