DR. HENRY JENNY...LETTER TO MARCIA ANGELL

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> Subject: Dr. Letter to Marcia Angell

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> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:04:19 -0800

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> From: " SHIRLEY GOODNER "

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> (posted on alt.support.breast-implant by

> Shirley Goodner)

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> Dr. is the inventor of the saline

> implant.

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> February 22, 1998

>

> Marcia Angell, M.D. Editor-In-Chief

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> New England Journal of Medicine

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> 10 Shattuck Street

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> Boston, MA 02115-6094

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> Dear Dr. Angell;

>

> You first drew my attention with an

> editorial " Breast Implants-Protection or

> Paternalism? " It appeared in Volume 326, Number 25,

> published on June 18, 1992 in the New England

> Journal of Medicine. You based your comments on an

> article by Jack C. Fisher " The Silicone

> Controversy-When will Science Prevail? " and an

> article by Hans Berkel, " Breast Augmentation: A Risk

> Factor for Breast Cancer? "

>

> Jack C. Fisher, former head of the

> Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at

> the University of California in San Diego managed to

> publish his unscientific and totally erroneous

> comments in the NEJM with your endorsement. In a

> deposition Dunleavy [NY attorney]

> immortalized Fisher's ignorance on the subject. As

> to Berkel he was fired within less than a year from

> his position as the board's research director.

>

> You quote an ASPRS (American Society of

> Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons) statistic and

> qualify it as " The best information we have are

> polls indicating that more than 90 percent of the

> women with breast implants are satisfied with the

> results. " You totally ignored the fact that: less

> than 500 of the 100,000 women receiving a

> questionnaire actually answered.

>

> Since 1992 you have played the role of

> a world-renowned expert on the subject of silicone

> gel-filled breast implants. Together with Fisher you

> have popularized terms such as " junk science " and

> " junk scientists. " You have publicly accused

> plaintiff's expert witnesses of being " prostitutes. "

>

> What would you call defense expert

> witnesses Dr. Warren Blackburn, a

> toxico-immunologist, hired for $750,000, Dr.

> Rosenberg, a neuro-toxicologist being paid $500,000

> and Dr. Bruce Kelman, another toxico-immunologist,

> receiving $300,000 for services rendered in the case

> of Mahlum versus Dow Chemical Corporation?

>

> My concern for women with silicone

> gel-filled breast implants started in 1966 when

> during an explantation of an intact silicone

> gel-filled breast implant, covered with seeping

> liquid silicone, I asked myself: * Where does the

> liquid silicone go in a woman with silicone

> gel-filled implants?

>

> * What does the liquid silicone do when

> it gets there?

>

> * What can we as Plastic Surgeons do to

> remove it, should it prove to be

> detrimental to their health?

>

> I have received no remuneration for

> neither my research nor for warning my colleagues

> and the manufacturers worldwide as well as the FDA.

> I wrote and self-published my book, " Silicone-Gate,

> or The Scandal Behind Breast Implants " together with

> my wife without an financial assistance or

> encouragement from attorneys.

>

> Defense attorneys have deposed me

> during more than 120 hours. When presiding over a

> Daubert hearing in New York, Judge Weinstein

> approved my testimony as an expert witness and found

> it to be " devastating to the defense. "

>

> Would you still call me a prostitute?

>

> Do you have the courage to come forward

> with all your second-hand knowledge and testify on

> behalf of the manufacturers? Are you willing to sign

> an affidavit under oath stating that as the

> editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of

> Medicine you have never had any personal or

> financial interest in authors submitting a

> scientific paper to you for publication? Can you

> tell us who reviewed the above mentioned articles

> and would you explain to us how the peer reviewers

> of such a prestigious medical Journal missed gross

> errors in Fisher's article that any second year

> chemistry student could have identified?

>

> The second time your name drew my

> attention was your editorial, " Losing Weight-An

> Ill-Fated New Year's Resolution. " You have now

> become the self-made expert on obesity! Dr. Everett

> Koop, the former Surgeon General, JoAnn E. Manson,

> M.D., Ph.D. of Harvard Medical School as well as

> Theodore B. Van Itallie, Professor Emeritus of

> Medicine at Columbia University state that " the

> editorial is at odds with the totality of scientific

> evidence concerning the health risks of obesity. "

> Apparently they don't think you have any background

> in obesity research.

>

> Do you have any such background in

> liquid silicone?

>

> I am sending you a signed copy of my

> book for basic education. I hope that even you could

> one day become a scientifically minded editor who

> would avoid politics, which in my opinion is the

> cancer of society.

>

> Will you stop calling us prostitutes?

> There is an old America saying:

>

> " IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE. "

>

> Sincerely,

>

> Henry , M.D.

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> Posted by Shirley Goodner

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