Closing Ranks

By now I'm assuming that most people have heard about actor Dennis Quaid's twins being given a dose of blood thinner 1,000 times what they should have been given. The only reason this has come to light is because they're the children of Quaid.

Many years ago, when She Who Must Be Obeyed was a nurse, doctors and nurses were commonly referred to as the "Medical Mafia" - they have a code of silence that's at least as tight as Police when it comes to closing ranks around each other in order to protect someone who screwed the pooch.

Many times families never find out what happened to a loved one who died on an operating table - and way too often the reason for the death is related to incompetence.

On a closely related subject, quite often small town newspapers don't report on many rapes and other sexual assaults, because they "don't want to scare the public".

The People's Paranoia Party is often claiming that the government is keeping secrets from us (no kidding - it's called classified material). They should be looking closer to home - unless something like what happened to the Quaid twins or the Drew Peterson situation takes place, you won't hear a peep.