Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 > message/Dr/656 > From: <JDrew63929@a...> > Date: Mon Apr 3, 2000 10:28pm > Subject: Re: New Synchrometer Method > > > << See you there... I'm the mean looking guy in the tan > suit. > > Tim >> > > Naaw..........mean looking? Ha ha....I've already seen you. See ya there! > > Jan > > **************** > > > As we can see from the above, Jan Drew was NOT sitting in the courtroom " at > the same time " , but apparently a couple days later, contrary to what you > write below: No it's you who is making assumptions, and exactly points to many different ways people can read things. My saying I already seen you was talking of seeing Tim at open house which was in Oct. of 98. I also said *see ya there* ..Your assumptiom makes no sense. I was indeed sitting next to Jan Bolen at the hearing. We were both wiping tears from our eyes to see Hulda being put through such nonsense. The *only* reason she was there is because the newly elected prosecutor wanted to make a name for himself, and just happen to be married to Amy. >The cause of the " disruptions " is the fault of those who will not or cannot answer these simple questions. Period! Or could it be the assumptions made? Just as your reading my post with the assumption (stretched I might add) and then proclaimed that Tim and Jan lied about it. Why is the so-called " research " at her Mexican " research facility " not submitted for publication in scientific journals? You really don't know the answer to that? The minute Hulda's name is mentioned it is proclaimed BS. PERIOD.........no exceptions........by ALL conventional people in this country. That's why she preferred to publish to the people. Everyone knows how long it takes to get studies done, even then they aren't accepted. There are many studies done with plenty of evidence that mercury amalgams are dangerous, yet they are ignored by conv. medicine. Know why? BECAUSE IT STEPS ON THE TOES OF TOO MANY PEOPLE!!!!!! And proves that the ADA is *STILL* lying. Oh yes and one other little minor thing. IT PROVES THAT QUACK BAR..........RAT IS A QUACK AND A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why all the secrecy? Secercy? She has published four books now, the last one having to do with cases in the clinic. >If Hulda's " truth " is so fragile that it cannot tolerate examination (which always involves asking critical questions), then it isn't worth very much. Uh huh, and ask Bar.......RAT why he took down the little note under his writings that said something to the effect that further information was coming or would be investigated. He only publishes the studies that *agree* with his sick opinion. People like him are causing others to suffer and die.............all because he belongs to the *good ole boy club.* I don't know if Hulda has all the answers, I do know THAT SHE IS 100% CORRECT ABOUT THE TEETH!!!! Had I not read her books I would most likely be six feet under. Now say what you will about Hulda, it's a free country, but comparing her to Bar.......RAT just doesn't cut the mustard. ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON!!!!!!!!!!! She doesn't give two hoots about the *good ole boy club, she does care about sick people. What you fail to realize is most of the people she seees have been told *by the good ole boy club* to go home and prepare to die. So I must add if conventional medicine is as wonderful as Quack Bar.....RAT proclaims, why are 50% of people turning to alternative medicine????????? This makes about 200 times I have said this on several different newsgroups. It's growing tiresome. It's not questions we don't like it's the *FACT* that minds are completely closed. We have already seen that the mercury amalgams studies and evidence hasn't been accepted, and we know why. Now, why don't you spend your time with helping to get the 1.3 million errors EACH YEAR, from conv. medicine stopped??????????????? That's a serious problem. If you get a chance please watch *Why doctors make mistakes* on TV. We know what the problems are and they can be prevented. Why oh why doesn't *THAT* concern you more that people like Hulda??????? Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 > Dear Uncle Erasmus: > > It was great to have you with us for Thanksgiving and to discuss your > interest in the Dr. theories. I am grateful you let me use your > Hotmail to point out some things about dentistry to people. Hmmm. Is he too poor to have a computer or his own e-mail address?? People will accept " truth " only from sources they agree with, regardless of the evidence to the contrary. LOL.........ya mean like Quack Bar.........RAT?? Or yourself?? Ingoring ALL the studies and evidence about mercury amalgams????????????????????? <snip[ opinion about Lea and the Bolens> He doesn't belong on this list. They don't belong on this list either. A bit of a control problem there nephue????? <snip more garbage> Let me know if you need anything answered about health issues. ROTFLOL................. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 Thank you, As well as publicly calling me a liar - which I'm not - you have pretty well made my argument for me. Jan Bolen --- Lee <pglee@...> wrote: > Re: Hulda Rumor > > > No truth to the rumor. I'm sure the quackpots has > > their hopes up... > > > > > > --- XXXXX@... wrote: > > > Tim, > > > There is a rumor, I hope it is just that, that > Hulda > > > has been diagnosed with breast cancer and > has > > > undergone surgery. Could you please advise me as > to > > > the truth of this rumor? If there is truth to > this > > > rumor please relay our condolences to Hulda and > we > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 I has been busy and met my new friend Belle. My nephue sent me somthing and told me to send it on. He taught me to paste stuff to mail. Dear Uncle Erasmus: It was great to have you with us for Thanksgiving and to discuss your interest in the Dr. theories. I am grateful you let me use your Hotmail to point out some things about dentistry to people. Several things became quickly clear and I confirmed this by reading many old posts to this list. Anyone who questions anything gets quickly attacked for trying to raise legitimate points. People will accept "truth" only from sources they agree with, regardless of the evidence to the contrary. Leo asked for references and got them. He never replied. He also never has replied to tell you who he is. He does not appear to follow Dr. 's methods. He only promotes them. He also attacks anyone who raises any point he disagrees with. He seems to want to tell everyone how to manage their health, but then doesn't want to take responsibility for what he says. He never did tell you about his resignation. He questions others but won't answer questions. He doesn't belong on this list. Mr Lee has pointed out in detail how some others on the list are not truthful. The people who call themselves Tim and Jan Bolen have not been talking about Dr. 's methods and illness. They only attack people who question anything, impune motives of others (call them "infiltrators", as if this group is not an open forum for discussion), and fail to honestly portray who they are. They say they have a business called Jurimed or JuriMed. If you go to the web you find this is the trademark of a German company. There is no JuriMed listed in any California Phone Directory. They have no address. And they write from a mail account, but send their mail from ATT WorldNet. They only seem to be promoting their business, whatever that is. They don't belong on this list either. I am not a enthusiast, and am not a list member. Thus my identity will stay with you, Uncle. From what Mr. Lee has written these people are not the kind of people I want sending me junk mail, threats, or trying to sell me illegal and dangerous medical devices (zappers). You can send this to on to them if you want. Use the cut and paste method I showed you. Let me know if you need anything answered about health issues. All the best, Tom I has been nice so far but I don't like being called somebody I ain't or a liar. The stuff said about me ain't true and is like what coms out of Timbull. Yours, Tri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 " Tri " and/or " Erasmus " , You insult the intellegence of everyone on this list by spelling phonetically like an illiterate person would speak, and then piously playing the martyr when people don't believe that you are who you say you are. Your " new friend Belle " doesn't help your credibility in the slightest, any more than your nepheu the dentist did. Vince Richter >From: " Erasmus Sears " <tritooth@...> >Reply-Dregroups ><Dregroups> >Subject: Re: Setting the record straight >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:36:17 -0500 > >I has been busy and met my new friend Belle. My nephue sent me somthing >and told me to send it on. He taught me to paste stuff to mail. > > > > > >Dear Uncle Erasmus: > > <snip> > >You can send this to on to them if you want. Use the cut and paste method >I showed you. Let me know if you need anything answered about health >issues. > >All the best, > >Tom > > >I has been nice so far but I don't like being called somebody I ain't or a >liar. The stuff said about me ain't true and is like what coms out of >Timbull. > >Yours, > >Tri > ________________________________________________________________________________\ _____ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 2, 2000 Report Share Posted December 2, 2000 > For goodness sake, > Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! > It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. > Chuck > If I promise to miss you, will you go away? LOL...........but he's learnin to paste stuff to mail............. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 For goodness sake, Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. Chuck If I promise to miss you, will you go away? On Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:36:17 -0500, " Erasmus Sears " <tritooth@...> wrote: > >I has been busy and met my new friend Belle. My nephue sent me somthing and told me to send it on. He taught me to paste stuff to mail. > >Dear Uncle Erasmus: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 Maybe he can ask the librarian to help him unsubscribe from the list. >From: JDrew63929@... >Reply-Dregroups >Dregroups >Subject: Re: Setting the record straight >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 20:18:37 EST > > > > > For goodness sake, > > Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! > > It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. > > Chuck > > If I promise to miss you, will you go away? > >LOL...........but he's learnin to paste stuff to mail............. > >Jan ________________________________________________________________________________\ _____ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 > As an Indiana resident, you could easily have been there on April 2-3, before > it started. Why on earth would I want to Rome around Nashville for several days? I went on the 4th. I'm not in the habit of hanging out and wasting time. This makes NO sense. You state that you " will be at the motion to dismiss on April fourth " . Tim Bolen replies: " See you there... " . To which you reply: " .......See ya there! " What assumptions of mine are wrong??? You were not there at the time Jan Bolen says you were. You were there later. (The mistake regarding the time is not yours, it's Jan Bolen's.) What on earth are you talking about?? She said she sat beside me in court! That was April 4th! Here is what she said: > I was sitting next to Jan Drew in a courtroom in > Indiana in support of Dr. at the same time > people on the Healthfraud list were trying to > desseminate the false information that Dr. was > having to go into a hospital to have surgery for > breast cancer. I have seen too much nastiness and too > many dirty tricks to take kindly to the postings of > those who would like to disrupt this list. > > Jan Bolen Now, if there were posts on the HF list several days before, what does that prove?? This discussions last several days..........weeks and........... months........sometimes. She needed an EXACT date?? Once again she said: > I was sitting next to Jan Drew in a courtroom in > Indiana in support of Dr. at the same time > people on . . . . . And then you nit pick at dates and EXACT times?? I'm not wasting any more time on something so absolutely ridiculous. Jan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 I'm going to let the whole list make their own judgement, after seeing the evidence below: My assumptions are based on what you and the Bolens have written. ********************* message/Dr/649 From: <JDrew63929@a...> Date: Sat Apr 1, 2000 11:56pm Subject: Re: New Synchrometer Method << . SHE IS EIGHTY YEARS OLD. >> Correction. She is seventy one. I will be at the motion to dismiss on April fourth. Jan *************** message/Dr/652 From: Tim and Jan Bolen <jurimed@y...> Date: Mon Apr 3, 2000 4:56pm Subject: Re: New Synchrometer Method See you there... I'm the mean looking guy in the tan suit. Tim --- JDrew63929@a... wrote: > > > << . SHE IS EIGHTY YEARS OLD. >> > > Correction. She is seventy one. > > I will be at the motion to dismiss on April fourth. > > Jan > *************** message/Dr/656 From: <JDrew63929@a...> Date: Mon Apr 3, 2000 10:28pm Subject: Re: New Synchrometer Method << See you there... I'm the mean looking guy in the tan suit. Tim >> Naaw..........mean looking? Ha ha....I've already seen you. See ya there! Jan *************** As an Indiana resident, you could easily have been there on April 2-3, before it started. That's the time frame for the posts by the members on the HF List, in which they express their puzzlement, try to confirm and squelch the rumor, send their condolences to Hulda, pray for her, etc. This is also the time frame for the claim made by Jan Bolen: " ....at the same time > people on the Healthfraud list were trying to > desseminate the false information that Dr. was > having to go into a hospital...... " We know that it was a sick April fool's joke, written on April 1 and forwarded to the HF List on April 2. The members then began to comment on what was obviously a sick joke. Their reactions are all copied here: message/Dr/2137 Here's what I based my " assumptions " on (just to refresh your memory): You state that you " will be at the motion to dismiss on April fourth " . Tim Bolen replies: " See you there... " . To which you reply: " .......See ya there! " What assumptions of mine are wrong??? You were not there at the time Jan Bolen says you were. You were there later. (The mistake regarding the time is not yours, it's Jan Bolen's.) And don't try to blame me for Jan Bolen's poor memory. She used a time frame for the incorrectly supposed " desseminate(ing of) the false information " and tied it together with the time frame for your attendance with her at the trial. I did not call her a liar either. Anybody with an agenda can easily be a little imprecise regarding such dates, without it being a " lie " . An " untruth " , very much so, but not a " lie " . I just tried to " set the record straight " by sorting through the precise dates for what happened and when it happened. I'm in no doubt about whether you and the Bolens actually did attend the trial. The time frame just doesn't fit. And the facts do not back up her claim that " people on the Healthfraud list were trying to desseminate .... false information ..... " On the contrary. She simply got her facts mixed up and revealed her true prejudices. An easy, though rather unsympathetic, mistake to make. It's known as a Freudian slip. An apology from her would gratefully be accepted. I have no beef with Jan Bolen. She has never threatened me. When you pointed out an error on my part, I apologized immediately. Here I state: " If I'm shown to be wrong (and it's happened more than once!), I'm not afraid to apologize. " message/Dr/1785 And then I did: message/Dr/1833 And you were gracious enough to accept my sincere apology: message/Dr/1836 Enough for now, Sincerely yours, Lee, PT The Quack-Files - http://www.geocities.com/healthbase ********************************************************************************\ *** " Mankind's capacity for deception and self-deception knows no limits. " -- PL " If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. " -- Reebok ad. " Manipulation isn't all it's cracked up to be! " ********************************************************************************\ *** Re: New Synchrometer Method > > > > > > << See you there... I'm the mean looking guy in the tan > > suit. > > > > Tim >> > > > > Naaw..........mean looking? Ha ha....I've already seen you. See ya there! > > > > Jan > > > > **************** > > > > > > As we can see from the above, Jan Drew was NOT sitting in the courtroom > " at > > the same time " , but apparently a couple days later, contrary to what you > > write below: > > No it's you who is making assumptions, and exactly points to many different > ways people can read things. My saying I already seen you was talking of > seeing Tim at open house which was in Oct. of 98. I also said *see ya there* > .Your assumptiom makes no sense. I was indeed sitting next to Jan Bolen at > the hearing. We were both wiping tears from our eyes to see Hulda being put > through such nonsense. The *only* reason she was there is because the newly > elected prosecutor wanted to make a name for himself, and just happen to be > married to Amy. > > > >The cause of the " disruptions " is the fault of those who will not or cannot > answer these simple questions. Period! > > > Or could it be the assumptions made? Just as your reading my post with the > assumption (stretched I might add) and then proclaimed that Tim and Jan lied > about it. > > > Why is the so-called " research " at her Mexican " research facility " not > submitted for publication in scientific journals? > > > You really don't know the answer to that? The minute Hulda's name is > mentioned it is proclaimed BS. PERIOD.........no exceptions........by ALL > conventional people in this country. That's why she preferred to publish to > the people. Everyone knows how long it takes to get studies done, even then > they aren't accepted. There are many studies done with plenty of evidence > that mercury amalgams are dangerous, yet they are ignored by conv. medicine. > Know why? BECAUSE IT STEPS ON THE TOES OF TOO MANY PEOPLE!!!!!! And proves > that the ADA is *STILL* lying. Oh yes and one other little minor thing. IT > PROVES THAT QUACK BAR..........RAT IS A QUACK AND A LIAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > Why all the secrecy? > > > Secercy? She has published four books now, the last one having to do with > cases in the clinic. > > > > >If Hulda's " truth " is so fragile that it cannot tolerate examination (which > always involves asking critical questions), then it isn't worth very much. > > > Uh huh, and ask Bar.......RAT why he took down the little note under his > writings that said something to the effect that further information was > coming or would be investigated. He only publishes the studies that *agree* > with his sick opinion. People like him are causing others to suffer and > die.............all because he belongs to the *good ole boy club.* > > > I don't know if Hulda has all the answers, I do know THAT SHE IS 100% CORRECT > ABOUT THE TEETH!!!! > > Had I not read her books I would most likely be six feet under. > > > Now say what you will about Hulda, it's a free country, but comparing her to > Bar.......RAT just doesn't cut the mustard. ABSOLUTELY NO > COMPARISON!!!!!!!!!!! > > She doesn't give two hoots about the *good ole boy club, she does care about > sick people. What you fail to realize is most of the people she seees have > been told *by the good ole boy club* to go home and prepare to die. > > So I must add if conventional medicine is as wonderful as Quack Bar.....RAT > proclaims, why are 50% of people turning to alternative medicine????????? > > > This makes about 200 times I have said this on several different newsgroups. > It's growing tiresome. It's not questions we don't like it's the *FACT* that > minds are completely closed. We have already seen that the mercury amalgams > studies and evidence hasn't been accepted, and we know why. > > > Now, why don't you spend your time with helping to get the 1.3 million errors > EACH YEAR, from conv. medicine stopped??????????????? That's a serious > problem. If you get a chance please watch *Why doctors make mistakes* on TV. > We know what the problems are and they can be prevented. Why oh why doesn't > *THAT* concern you more that people like Hulda??????? > > Jan > > > Learn more from: > http://home.online.no/~dusan/gallstones/ > http://home.online.no/~huldakli/ > http://www..net/ > http://home.online.no/~dusan/ > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 3, 2000 Report Share Posted December 3, 2000 Jan (Drew), The only reason this thread got started was because Jan Bolen made an untrue accusation which I tried to set straight. Since the untrueness of it involved two factors, it was necessary to analyze them both. Hence all the timing details. It was Jan Bolen that said she was together with you " at the same time " the " desseminate(ion of) the false information " by " people on the Healthfraud list " was supposed to be happening. She has absolutely no proof for this. On the contrary. I dealt with and exposed the libelous, hate-spreading nature of her accusation against the HF List members, who (fortunately) had nothing to do with the sick April fool's joke at Hulda's expense. She is welcome to make an apology for her untrue accusation. The other, quite intimately related point had to do with the timing. Her memory apparently played her a trick, possibly reinforcing her wishful thinking. By making this timing inaccuracy part of her accusation, she opened herself up for it being examined and likewise exposed. The reason you don't seem to understand the whole point, is because you (conveniently?) choose not to deal with it, but take a diversionary detour and mention something that has nothing to do with it. Forget all about the " seeing Tim at open house which was in Oct. of 98 " you mention. That has nothing to do with this discussion. We won't be fooled by such tactics. The key words are " at the same time " . Focus on those words of Jan Bolen, and you just might be able to understand it. Keep evading them and you'll reveal a serious lack of reasoning skills. You'll just waste all of our time by fighting against straw men. Keep to the point. The rest of my remarks are placed at the appropriate places in your post. Re: Setting the record straight > > > > As an Indiana resident, you could easily have been there on April 2-3, > before > > it started. > > > Why on earth would I want to Rome around Nashville for several days? I went > on the 4th. I'm not in the habit of hanging out and wasting time. This makes > NO sense. > Of course it doesn't make sense to you. That's because YOU aren't keeping to the point. I never implied that you would want to waste your time there. It is Jan Bolen that tries to place you in the courtroom > > at the same time > > people on the Healthfraud list were trying to > > desseminate the false information ...... The " false information " part of this has been dealt with and disproven. Now it's time for the wrong timing to also be disproven (again!). That's what you are avoiding. It's also quite interesting that neither you nor Jan Bolen have commented the inaccuracy of the libelous and malicious false charge. You write: > > You state that you " will be at the motion to dismiss on April fourth " . Tim > Bolen replies: " See you there... " . To which you reply: " .......See ya there! " > > What assumptions of mine are wrong??? You were not there at the time Jan > Bolen says you were. You were there later. (The mistake regarding the time is > not yours, it's Jan Bolen's.) > > What on earth are you talking about?? She said she sat beside me in court! > That was April 4th! It's true that she sat beside you in court on April 4th. But that's not what she WROTE in spite of that being what she probably meant. What she WROTE was something else. Which brings us back to the point. Stick to the point and you'll understand it. > > Here is what she said: > > > I was sitting next to Jan Drew in a courtroom in > > Indiana in support of Dr. at the same time > > people on the Healthfraud list were trying to > > desseminate the false information that Dr. was > > having to go into a hospital to have surgery for > > breast cancer. I have seen too much nastiness and too > > many dirty tricks to take kindly to the postings of > > those who would like to disrupt this list. > > > > Jan Bolen > > Now, if there were posts on the HF list several days before, what does that > prove?? This discussions last several days..........weeks and........... > months........sometimes. She needed an EXACT date?? > > Once again she said: > > > I was sitting next to Jan Drew in a courtroom in > > Indiana in support of Dr. at the same time > > people on . . . . . > SHE wrote " at the same time " . YOU write " several days before " . The discussion on the HF List lasted two days (April 2-3) and ended. You've both read the posts. In your own words: " ...what does that prove?? " It proves that she was inaccurate on both points: (1) wrong in her hate-spreading accusation (libelous disinformation), and (2) wrong in the timing (Her wishful thinking confused her). She revealed: (1) that she wants to believe that we spread that sick rumor, and (2 that she is still trying to get others to believe it, against better knowledge. I did not accuse her of lying. I have given her the benefit of the doubt and called it an " untruth " . They are not the same thing. The difference is a question of motive. But **NOW** the situation is quite different. In light of the information so clearly laid out before you -- in spite of your apparent lack of willingness to understand it -- any persistence on **ANYONE'S** part to propagate that untruth would clearly constitute a very maliciously motivated **LIE**. This line of reasoning WILL stand up in court. Any continued support or repetition of the false accusation will clearly be proof of malicious intent and punishable as libel and slander, among other things. So be very careful what you say from now on. The evidence is piling up. Tim Bolen's libelous post no. 1262 (just one of many libelous writings by him, both public and private) was removed from this list, and he was enjoined (reluctantly) by the list master to refrain from posting anything more that violates the Terms of Service (they're below). There are several postings by several people since then that are also libelous. Consider this a warning. Your group has been warned and allowed to continue under probation, and it can still be suspended. There is already enough evidence. Since the warning below on July 4, several persons have made themselves guilty of being accessories. message/Dr/1266 > Dear eGroups moderators: > > It has come to our attention that a member of your groups, Tim Bolen, has been posting information regarding Dr. Barrett which Dr. Barrett considers libelous and defamatory. This information relates to the medical practice as well as to specific individuals. Please note that our Terms of Service state that we have the right to take action if we believe that a member is " uploading, posting, emailing or otherwise transmitting any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. " > > We have deleted the messages brought to our attention by Dr. Barrett and consider this message to be a warning to Mr. Bolen, who is being copied on this email. Please note that you can change your group settings in order to moderate posts so that they must be approved before they are sent to the group. > > If we receive another complaint about Mr. Bolen, we will take further action as we deem necessary, which may include termination of his account and temporary suspension of the groups to which he posted this information. We understand that you may not have been aware of the content of his messages but suggest that you moderate them in the future. > > Sincerely, > eGroups Legal Department The time when she said it is NOT the main point. That she wrote it at all ***IS*** the main point. That is libel: LIBEL: " The crime of publishing or writing anything defamatory, or that maliciously or damagingly misrepresents. " Tim has done this many times. Jan Bolen, among others, is an accessory to his action, and has herself become independently guilty. Ironically, Hulda's publicist Tim Bolen has done irreparable harm to her cause by his abrasivness and massive misinformation campaigns. The sooner she fires him, the sooner she will be able to continue to practice medicine without a license in peace. On second thought, maybe she shouldn't fire him! He's good at attracting negative attention. > And then you nit pick at dates and EXACT times?? > > I'm not wasting any more time on something so absolutely ridiculous. > > Jan > You're right. The whole thing is " absolutely ridiculous " . So why do you try to defend it? Admit it was a mistake and apologize. It's as simple as that! I'd hate to see all of this have legal consequences for you as well. The Bolens and Hulda are not worth it. You have still not made clear which assumptions of mine were wrong. I must say, you're an expert at avoiding answering uncomfortable questions. Avoidance seems to be the name of your game. Still waiting for answers, Lee, PT The Quack-Files - http://www.geocities.com/healthbase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2000 Report Share Posted December 5, 2000 > For goodness sake, > Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! > It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. > Chuck > If I promise to miss you, will you go away? >LOL...........but he's learnin to paste stuff >to mail............. Jan Yep, an I'm all fer educatin the ignerant! An I think I know Belle too, isn't her last name Ding Dong? ROTFL Jan Yancer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2000 Report Share Posted December 5, 2000 > > For goodness sake, > > Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! > > It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. > > Chuck > > If I promise to miss you, will you go away? > > >LOL...........but he's learnin to paste stuff >to mail............. > Jan > > Yep, an I'm all fer educatin the ignerant! > An I think I know Belle too, isn't her last name Ding Dong? ROTFL > > Jan Yancer ROTFLOL!! I think them thar Jan's' are sumpin else. Jan Drew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2000 Report Share Posted December 5, 2000 My goodness! We are all certainly oozing the milk of human kindness and full of love for our neighbour, whom we love as ourselves, this morning, aren't we? Hmm...I have a whole paddock littered with stones here, if you would like to grab a few and cast them...will save me collecting them all by hand (they chip our horses hooves, you see:)) W:) Tuesday, December 05, 2000, 5:13:13 PM, you wrote: >> For goodness sake, >> Please drop this cartoon troll thingy! >> It's not even quaintly humorous anymore. >> Chuck >> If I promise to miss you, will you go away? >>LOL...........but he's learnin to paste stuff >to mail............. J> Jan J> Yep, an I'm all fer educatin the ignerant! J> An I think I know Belle too, isn't her last name Ding Dong? ROTFL J> Jan Yancer J> Learn more from: J> http://home.online.no/~dusan/gallstones/ J> http://home.online.no/~huldakli/ J> http://www..net/ J> http://home.online.no/~dusan/ J> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2000 Report Share Posted December 5, 2000 > My goodness! We are all certainly oozing the milk of human kindness > and full of love for our neighbour, whom we love as ourselves, this > morning, aren't we? > > Hmm...I have a whole paddock littered with stones here, if you would like to > grab a few and cast them...will save me collecting them all by hand > (they chip our horses hooves, you see:)) > > W:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 2000 Report Share Posted December 6, 2000 Woofie wrote: >My goodness! We are all certainly oozing the milk of human kindness and full of love for our neighbour, whom we love as ourselves, this morning, aren't we? Hmm...I have a whole paddock littered with stones here, if you would like to grab a few and cast them...will save me collecting them all by hand (they chip our horses hooves, you see:)) W:) Woofie, Do you think the people we were referring to had love and kindness in mind when they post to this list? All things considered, I think we've been quite nice to them. This isn't a list to put people on trial, and it isn't a list to pretend to be someone we're not. It's purpose is to share our experiences with Hulda 's protocols, and other aternative health information. Sometimes you need a few stones to get the horses back where they belong! Jan Yancer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 , I am glad that researchers like you and Don Villarejo, Alice Larson, Xochitl Castaneda, folks in Michigan and North Carolina, and a few others have taken such a great interest in the health of this population. I am pleased that the California Endowment has supported your work and will continue to be involved in this arena. My hope is that other states and private foundations will follow California's lead in this area. Adolfo Mata, Director Hispanic Health Initiative Office of the Director/Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Resources and Services Administration/US DHHS 4350 East-West Hwy, 11th FL Bethesda, land 20814 (301) 594-4976 amata@... -----Original Message----- From: Lighthall [mailto:dlighthall@...] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: [ ] Setting the record straight To the migrant health community: It is my sincere hope that the results of the California Agricultural Workers Health Survey and the Binational Health Survey, and the subsequent press coverage they have engendered, be fully exploited in making the case for more funding for migrant and community health clinics, and more such clinics nationwide. It is extremely important at this critical juncture, while Congress debates this funding, that this striking body of empirical evidence be put to good use. It is also extremely important that the poor health conditions of farmworkers overall, as found in the CAWHS, be in no way associated with the performance of the community and migrant clinic system. The clinics and their staffs are doing great, often heroic work with limited funds. And, as witnessed in Tamara's message below, are operating in an often hostile employer environment with workers who about half the time are undocumented. The real issue here is, imagine just how appalling things would be without this system of subsidized care on the part of clinics that are striving towards excellence in multi-cultural health care delivery! I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you in the past several years and I have been impressed time and time again by your dedication to the health of our nation's farmworkers. I would like to go on record as offering our organizational resources to aid, in whatever way we can, the fight to secure more federal funding. I would like to particularly direct this offer to NACHC, NCFH, FJF, and any other organizations who are leading this fight. Sincerely, Lighthall Ph.D. Executive Director California Institute for Rural Studies P.O. Box 2143 (U.S. Mail) 221 G Street, Suite 204 , CA 95616 Tel: (530)756-6555 Fax: (530)756-7429 dlighthall@... -----Original Message----- From: Tamara F. Cummings [mailto:tcummin@...] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: [ ] Digest Number 210 As a result of the story that ran in the NY Times on Fear and Poverty of Migrant Farm Workers living in the U.S., I'd like to share our experience with taking medical services to migrant camps and migrant farm workers in our area. We are a community/migrant clinic based in north San Diego County. We recently expanded our mobile clinic program from 4 hours, 3 times per week to 8 hours, 3 times per week. Our CEO, Irma Cota is a member of the California Endowment task force that addresses the issues of health care needs of migrant farmworkers; and as a community and migrant clinic, we are aware of the medical needs of migrant farm workers (diabetes medication, high blood pressure, anemia, flu, STDs, etc.), but we are often met with resistance when we approach growers, and foremen about providing medical services onsite. Although growers provide little in terms of health care to their farm workers, they do not always welcome community assistance. Another concern for us is the lack of transportation that workers face. It is often risky for them to drive to the nearest community clinic, and few growers are willing to take sick workers to health care providers unless it is a critical condition. We have 8 community clinics; all of them are located on a bus route; and 50% of our staff is bi-lingual, and bi-cultural. We are one of three community clinics in this area of the county, and yet together we are still unable to care for migrants who live within a few miles of a health center. We do not stand alone in our attempts to take medical care to migrant farm workers who need it; other community-based and faith-based organizations have seen the need and are working to improve migrant farm workers' ability to access a variety of resources and services. Yet we cannot force our way into migrant camps and farms/nurseries where these men and women work. One way, we can begin curtailing these health disparities, is to have growers, migrant farm workers and community clinics collaborate honestly, and openly. And this kind of collaboration is imperative. Tamara F. Cummings Marketing Operations Manager North County Health Services 150 Valpreda Road San Marcos, CA 92069 Tel.: (760) 736-8634 Fax: (760) 736-6753 Email: tcummin@... -----Original Message----- From: [mailto: ] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:32 AM Subject: [ ] Digest Number 210 To Post a message, send it to: Groups To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: -unsubscribe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. From: Don Villarejo <donfarm@...> 2. RE: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. From: " Lighthall " <dlighthall@...> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:09:51 -0700 From: Don Villarejo <donfarm@...> Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. Hi Everyone - The following story ran in the Sunday, May 13, 2001, issues of the New York Times. It is based on the California Agricultural Worker Health Survey. Don Villarejo >Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. > > >By STEVEN GREENHOUSE > > > >CUTLER, Calif. - Francisco Plaza, a 35-year-old farm worker from >Mexico, made a rare visit to a doctor last year after he suddenly >lost a lot of weight. The doctor told him that he had diabetes and >ordered him to take two medications that cost $134 a month. > > But Mr. Plaza, who prunes fruit trees for $6.25 an hour, often >skips his medicine, saying he cannot afford it after paying for >food and rent. > > " Some months he doesn't get much work, so it's hard to afford, " >his wife, lva, said at their modest home in this Central Valley >farm town. " When he doesn't work, he doesn't buy his medicine. " > > Mr. Plaza, who has lived in the United States for four years, is >in the same bind as many other Mexican farm workers who live more >or less permanently in the United States. While federal clinics for >migrants are supposed to serve all indigent farm workers, illegal >immigrants shun them because they do not qualify for state Medicaid >coverage and fear discovery of their illegal status. (Almost half >of the migrant farm workers are in the country illegally.) Farm >workers often do not see doctors until their condition is so dire >that they must go to emergency rooms, which are not permitted to >turn them away. > > " A situation we see every day is a terrible diabetic who can't >afford the $200 a month for medicine, and that person ends up with >renal failure, " Dr. Sablan, who runs a clinic for farm >workers in Firebaugh, Calif., said. " Then they're able to get a >state health insurance card and dialysis. That's $1 million a >year. " > > Diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia occur at higher rates >among California's 700,000 immigrant farm workers, mainly from >Mexico, than among Americans, and the workers' health worsens the >longer they stay in the United States. > > A study to be released this month found that poor diet and >infrequent visits to doctors make the health of longtime migrant >farm workers considerably worse than that of those who have just >arrived, even after accounting for differences in age. > > Preliminary findings by the California Policy Research Center in >Berkeley indicate that illegal immigrant farm workers, newly >arrived from Mexico, have far lower cholesterol, lower blood >pressure and less obesity than do farm workers who have lived here >legally for a while. > > " It's an appalling picture, " said K. Ross, president of the >California Endowment, a foundation specializing in health issues. > " These are people who help keep food prices low for American >families, and I have a hard time figuring out why their health >status should be so poor. " > > Many things complicate the farm workers' health, including >unfamiliarity with American medicine and a lack of exercise in the >long stretches they are unemployed. A poor diet is a key to their >high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia, researchers >say, and it gets worse as the migrants combine American fast food >with the staples of tacos and refried beans. Other factors are the >lack of money and insurance. > > A study released last November found that the women, 36 percent of >the migrants, were far more likely than the men to visit doctors, >largely because pregnant farm workers, even illegal immigrants, >qualify for state health insurance. Indigent men here illegally do >not qualify except for medical emergencies. The median income of >the 971 farm workers in the November study, sponsored by the >California Endowment, was less than $10,000 a year. > > Many growers acknowledge that their workers' health is >substandard, but they blame an inferior health system in Mexico and >the failure of the workers to take care of themselves. Many growers >say they cannot afford to provide insurance. > > But many growers agree with advocates for the workers that the >federal system of community and migrant health clinics is >inadequate. > > " The situation is harder because there aren't enough health >professionals in many of these rural areas, " Don Dressler, >president of insurance services for the Western Growers >Association, said. > > These concerns have made an impression on the Bush administration, >which has proposed a 10 percent, or $124 million, increase next >year for the nation's 3,400 community health clinics, including its >400 migrant health clinics. Advocates for the workers applaud that, >but are unhappy that Mr. Bush has proposed reducing money to train >doctors in underserved rural areas. > > Farm owners say they want laws that will make it easier to provide >discounted health insurance through grower associations for >documented and undocumented workers alike. > > And like many farm workers, growers favor having more >government-sponsored mobile health clinics visit farms. For many >farm workers, simply getting to a clinic is an obstacle - the >clinics are often far away, the workers generally do not own cars, >and buses rarely run between farm communities. > > Don Villarejo, founder of the California Institute of Rural >Studies, which conducted the November study, said the state, >growers and workers should contribute to a health program. He >proposes assessing a few cents per bushel of produce to help >finance the program. > > " For another nickel a head of lettuce, we could raise wages by 40 >percent and provide health insurance, " he said. > > Yovana Cisneros Espindola, 23, the wife of an undocumented farm >worker from Mexico, was fortunate, because of her pregnancy, to >have state health insurance last year when she suffered her first >multiple sclerosis attack, which temporarily blinded her. Her child >was born last November, and she no longer has insurance and cannot >afford the pills needed to slow the advance of the disease. They >cost $10,000 a year. > > linda Avitia, a worker with Catholic Charities, wrote to the >Biogen pharmaceutical company, which agreed to give Ms. Cisneros >the medication for three months and to consider renewing the gift. > > Ms. Cisneros's husband, Francisco, hardly ever sees a doctor. > > > " It's too expensive, " Mr. Cisneros said at their dark, crowded >apartment in Visalia, Calif. " Even if I have a bad fever, I go to >work anyway. If I miss work to go to a doctor, how am I going to >pay for food for my family? " > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13LABO.html?ex=990807442ei=1 & en= d9bea1d675a1fc52 > Don Villarejo, PhD P.O. Box 381 , CA 95617 (530)756-6545 voice & facsimile ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:42:35 -0700 From: " Lighthall " <dlighthall@...> Subject: RE: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. HI Don: The story was great although I was upset the way the CPRC credit was written--sounds like they did the research! Was this the plan? Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Don Villarejo [mailto:donfarm@...] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:10 PM Subject: [ ] NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. Hi Everyone - The following story ran in the Sunday, May 13, 2001, issues of the New York Times. It is based on the California Agricultural Worker Health Survey. Don Villarejo >Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. > > >By STEVEN GREENHOUSE > > > >CUTLER, Calif. - Francisco Plaza, a 35-year-old farm worker from >Mexico, made a rare visit to a doctor last year after he suddenly >lost a lot of weight. The doctor told him that he had diabetes and >ordered him to take two medications that cost $134 a month. > > But Mr. Plaza, who prunes fruit trees for $6.25 an hour, often >skips his medicine, saying he cannot afford it after paying for >food and rent. > > " Some months he doesn't get much work, so it's hard to afford, " >his wife, lva, said at their modest home in this Central Valley >farm town. " When he doesn't work, he doesn't buy his medicine. " > > Mr. Plaza, who has lived in the United States for four years, is >in the same bind as many other Mexican farm workers who live more >or less permanently in the United States. While federal clinics for >migrants are supposed to serve all indigent farm workers, illegal >immigrants shun them because they do not qualify for state Medicaid >coverage and fear discovery of their illegal status. (Almost half >of the migrant farm workers are in the country illegally.) Farm >workers often do not see doctors until their condition is so dire >that they must go to emergency rooms, which are not permitted to >turn them away. > > " A situation we see every day is a terrible diabetic who can't >afford the $200 a month for medicine, and that person ends up with >renal failure, " Dr. Sablan, who runs a clinic for farm >workers in Firebaugh, Calif., said. " Then they're able to get a >state health insurance card and dialysis. That's $1 million a >year. " > > Diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia occur at higher rates >among California's 700,000 immigrant farm workers, mainly from >Mexico, than among Americans, and the workers' health worsens the >longer they stay in the United States. > > A study to be released this month found that poor diet and >infrequent visits to doctors make the health of longtime migrant >farm workers considerably worse than that of those who have just >arrived, even after accounting for differences in age. > > Preliminary findings by the California Policy Research Center in >Berkeley indicate that illegal immigrant farm workers, newly >arrived from Mexico, have far lower cholesterol, lower blood >pressure and less obesity than do farm workers who have lived here >legally for a while. > > " It's an appalling picture, " said K. Ross, president of the >California Endowment, a foundation specializing in health issues. > " These are people who help keep food prices low for American >families, and I have a hard time figuring out why their health >status should be so poor. " > > Many things complicate the farm workers' health, including >unfamiliarity with American medicine and a lack of exercise in the >long stretches they are unemployed. A poor diet is a key to their >high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia, researchers >say, and it gets worse as the migrants combine American fast food >with the staples of tacos and refried beans. Other factors are the >lack of money and insurance. > > A study released last November found that the women, 36 percent of >the migrants, were far more likely than the men to visit doctors, >largely because pregnant farm workers, even illegal immigrants, >qualify for state health insurance. Indigent men here illegally do >not qualify except for medical emergencies. The median income of >the 971 farm workers in the November study, sponsored by the >California Endowment, was less than $10,000 a year. > > Many growers acknowledge that their workers' health is >substandard, but they blame an inferior health system in Mexico and >the failure of the workers to take care of themselves. Many growers >say they cannot afford to provide insurance. > > But many growers agree with advocates for the workers that the >federal system of community and migrant health clinics is >inadequate. > > " The situation is harder because there aren't enough health >professionals in many of these rural areas, " Don Dressler, >president of insurance services for the Western Growers >Association, said. > > These concerns have made an impression on the Bush administration, >which has proposed a 10 percent, or $124 million, increase next >year for the nation's 3,400 community health clinics, including its >400 migrant health clinics. Advocates for the workers applaud that, >but are unhappy that Mr. Bush has proposed reducing money to train >doctors in underserved rural areas. > > Farm owners say they want laws that will make it easier to provide >discounted health insurance through grower associations for >documented and undocumented workers alike. > > And like many farm workers, growers favor having more >government-sponsored mobile health clinics visit farms. For many >farm workers, simply getting to a clinic is an obstacle - the >clinics are often far away, the workers generally do not own cars, >and buses rarely run between farm communities. > > Don Villarejo, founder of the California Institute of Rural >Studies, which conducted the November study, said the state, >growers and workers should contribute to a health program. He >proposes assessing a few cents per bushel of produce to help >finance the program. > > " For another nickel a head of lettuce, we could raise wages by 40 >percent and provide health insurance, " he said. > > Yovana Cisneros Espindola, 23, the wife of an undocumented farm >worker from Mexico, was fortunate, because of her pregnancy, to >have state health insurance last year when she suffered her first >multiple sclerosis attack, which temporarily blinded her. Her child >was born last November, and she no longer has insurance and cannot >afford the pills needed to slow the advance of the disease. They >cost $10,000 a year. > > linda Avitia, a worker with Catholic Charities, wrote to the >Biogen pharmaceutical company, which agreed to give Ms. Cisneros >the medication for three months and to consider renewing the gift. > > Ms. Cisneros's husband, Francisco, hardly ever sees a doctor. > > > " It's too expensive, " Mr. Cisneros said at their dark, crowded >apartment in Visalia, Calif. " Even if I have a bad fever, I go to >work anyway. If I miss work to go to a doctor, how am I going to >pay for food for my family? " > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13LABO.html?ex=990807442ei=1 & en= d9bea1d675a1fc52 > Don Villarejo, PhD P.O. Box 381 , CA 95617 (530)756-6545 voice & facsimile To Post a message, send it to: Groups To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: -unsubscribe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 This very listserv is a direct result of the interest and activity around migrant health research. Not only do there seem to be an increasing number of new and very interesting studies, but we also finally have a means through which to exchange information about them. Because Mimi ez McKay is currently out of town, I'll take the lead and remind everyone that another outlet for our migrant health research-related discussion is throught the Migrant Health Stream Forums. All three have active research components and the organizers are currently seeking workshop abstracts for presentations next fall-winter. I urge all of you to consider submitting something AND attending a Forum. (access through www.ncfh.org) Thanks to everyone who participates on this listserv for making it such a valuable resource. Alice Alice C. Larson, Ph.D. las@... 206-463-9000 (voice) 206-463-9400 (fax) P.O. Box 801 Vashon Island, WA 98070 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2001 Report Share Posted May 15, 2001 Thanks Adolfo! Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Mata, Adolfo [mailto:amata@...] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 6:35 AM ' ' Subject: RE: [ ] Setting the record straight , I am glad that researchers like you and Don Villarejo, Alice Larson, Xochitl Castaneda, folks in Michigan and North Carolina, and a few others have taken such a great interest in the health of this population. I am pleased that the California Endowment has supported your work and will continue to be involved in this arena. My hope is that other states and private foundations will follow California's lead in this area. Adolfo Mata, Director Hispanic Health Initiative Office of the Director/Bureau of Primary Health Care Health Resources and Services Administration/US DHHS 4350 East-West Hwy, 11th FL Bethesda, land 20814 (301) 594-4976 amata@... -----Original Message----- From: Lighthall [mailto:dlighthall@...] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 9:21 PM Subject: [ ] Setting the record straight To the migrant health community: It is my sincere hope that the results of the California Agricultural Workers Health Survey and the Binational Health Survey, and the subsequent press coverage they have engendered, be fully exploited in making the case for more funding for migrant and community health clinics, and more such clinics nationwide. It is extremely important at this critical juncture, while Congress debates this funding, that this striking body of empirical evidence be put to good use. It is also extremely important that the poor health conditions of farmworkers overall, as found in the CAWHS, be in no way associated with the performance of the community and migrant clinic system. The clinics and their staffs are doing great, often heroic work with limited funds. And, as witnessed in Tamara's message below, are operating in an often hostile employer environment with workers who about half the time are undocumented. The real issue here is, imagine just how appalling things would be without this system of subsidized care on the part of clinics that are striving towards excellence in multi-cultural health care delivery! I have had the pleasure of meeting many of you in the past several years and I have been impressed time and time again by your dedication to the health of our nation's farmworkers. I would like to go on record as offering our organizational resources to aid, in whatever way we can, the fight to secure more federal funding. I would like to particularly direct this offer to NACHC, NCFH, FJF, and any other organizations who are leading this fight. Sincerely, Lighthall Ph.D. Executive Director California Institute for Rural Studies P.O. Box 2143 (U.S. Mail) 221 G Street, Suite 204 , CA 95616 Tel: (530)756-6555 Fax: (530)756-7429 dlighthall@... -----Original Message----- From: Tamara F. Cummings [mailto:tcummin@...] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 10:24 AM Subject: RE: [ ] Digest Number 210 As a result of the story that ran in the NY Times on Fear and Poverty of Migrant Farm Workers living in the U.S., I'd like to share our experience with taking medical services to migrant camps and migrant farm workers in our area. We are a community/migrant clinic based in north San Diego County. We recently expanded our mobile clinic program from 4 hours, 3 times per week to 8 hours, 3 times per week. Our CEO, Irma Cota is a member of the California Endowment task force that addresses the issues of health care needs of migrant farmworkers; and as a community and migrant clinic, we are aware of the medical needs of migrant farm workers (diabetes medication, high blood pressure, anemia, flu, STDs, etc.), but we are often met with resistance when we approach growers, and foremen about providing medical services onsite. Although growers provide little in terms of health care to their farm workers, they do not always welcome community assistance. Another concern for us is the lack of transportation that workers face. It is often risky for them to drive to the nearest community clinic, and few growers are willing to take sick workers to health care providers unless it is a critical condition. We have 8 community clinics; all of them are located on a bus route; and 50% of our staff is bi-lingual, and bi-cultural. We are one of three community clinics in this area of the county, and yet together we are still unable to care for migrants who live within a few miles of a health center. We do not stand alone in our attempts to take medical care to migrant farm workers who need it; other community-based and faith-based organizations have seen the need and are working to improve migrant farm workers' ability to access a variety of resources and services. Yet we cannot force our way into migrant camps and farms/nurseries where these men and women work. One way, we can begin curtailing these health disparities, is to have growers, migrant farm workers and community clinics collaborate honestly, and openly. And this kind of collaboration is imperative. Tamara F. Cummings Marketing Operations Manager North County Health Services 150 Valpreda Road San Marcos, CA 92069 Tel.: (760) 736-8634 Fax: (760) 736-6753 Email: tcummin@... -----Original Message----- From: [mailto: ] Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:32 AM Subject: [ ] Digest Number 210 To Post a message, send it to: Groups To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: -unsubscribe ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. From: Don Villarejo <donfarm@...> 2. RE: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. From: " Lighthall " <dlighthall@...> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:09:51 -0700 From: Don Villarejo <donfarm@...> Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. Hi Everyone - The following story ran in the Sunday, May 13, 2001, issues of the New York Times. It is based on the California Agricultural Worker Health Survey. Don Villarejo >Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. > > >By STEVEN GREENHOUSE > > > >CUTLER, Calif. - Francisco Plaza, a 35-year-old farm worker from >Mexico, made a rare visit to a doctor last year after he suddenly >lost a lot of weight. The doctor told him that he had diabetes and >ordered him to take two medications that cost $134 a month. > > But Mr. Plaza, who prunes fruit trees for $6.25 an hour, often >skips his medicine, saying he cannot afford it after paying for >food and rent. > > " Some months he doesn't get much work, so it's hard to afford, " >his wife, lva, said at their modest home in this Central Valley >farm town. " When he doesn't work, he doesn't buy his medicine. " > > Mr. Plaza, who has lived in the United States for four years, is >in the same bind as many other Mexican farm workers who live more >or less permanently in the United States. While federal clinics for >migrants are supposed to serve all indigent farm workers, illegal >immigrants shun them because they do not qualify for state Medicaid >coverage and fear discovery of their illegal status. (Almost half >of the migrant farm workers are in the country illegally.) Farm >workers often do not see doctors until their condition is so dire >that they must go to emergency rooms, which are not permitted to >turn them away. > > " A situation we see every day is a terrible diabetic who can't >afford the $200 a month for medicine, and that person ends up with >renal failure, " Dr. Sablan, who runs a clinic for farm >workers in Firebaugh, Calif., said. " Then they're able to get a >state health insurance card and dialysis. That's $1 million a >year. " > > Diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia occur at higher rates >among California's 700,000 immigrant farm workers, mainly from >Mexico, than among Americans, and the workers' health worsens the >longer they stay in the United States. > > A study to be released this month found that poor diet and >infrequent visits to doctors make the health of longtime migrant >farm workers considerably worse than that of those who have just >arrived, even after accounting for differences in age. > > Preliminary findings by the California Policy Research Center in >Berkeley indicate that illegal immigrant farm workers, newly >arrived from Mexico, have far lower cholesterol, lower blood >pressure and less obesity than do farm workers who have lived here >legally for a while. > > " It's an appalling picture, " said K. Ross, president of the >California Endowment, a foundation specializing in health issues. > " These are people who help keep food prices low for American >families, and I have a hard time figuring out why their health >status should be so poor. " > > Many things complicate the farm workers' health, including >unfamiliarity with American medicine and a lack of exercise in the >long stretches they are unemployed. A poor diet is a key to their >high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia, researchers >say, and it gets worse as the migrants combine American fast food >with the staples of tacos and refried beans. Other factors are the >lack of money and insurance. > > A study released last November found that the women, 36 percent of >the migrants, were far more likely than the men to visit doctors, >largely because pregnant farm workers, even illegal immigrants, >qualify for state health insurance. Indigent men here illegally do >not qualify except for medical emergencies. The median income of >the 971 farm workers in the November study, sponsored by the >California Endowment, was less than $10,000 a year. > > Many growers acknowledge that their workers' health is >substandard, but they blame an inferior health system in Mexico and >the failure of the workers to take care of themselves. Many growers >say they cannot afford to provide insurance. > > But many growers agree with advocates for the workers that the >federal system of community and migrant health clinics is >inadequate. > > " The situation is harder because there aren't enough health >professionals in many of these rural areas, " Don Dressler, >president of insurance services for the Western Growers >Association, said. > > These concerns have made an impression on the Bush administration, >which has proposed a 10 percent, or $124 million, increase next >year for the nation's 3,400 community health clinics, including its >400 migrant health clinics. Advocates for the workers applaud that, >but are unhappy that Mr. Bush has proposed reducing money to train >doctors in underserved rural areas. > > Farm owners say they want laws that will make it easier to provide >discounted health insurance through grower associations for >documented and undocumented workers alike. > > And like many farm workers, growers favor having more >government-sponsored mobile health clinics visit farms. For many >farm workers, simply getting to a clinic is an obstacle - the >clinics are often far away, the workers generally do not own cars, >and buses rarely run between farm communities. > > Don Villarejo, founder of the California Institute of Rural >Studies, which conducted the November study, said the state, >growers and workers should contribute to a health program. He >proposes assessing a few cents per bushel of produce to help >finance the program. > > " For another nickel a head of lettuce, we could raise wages by 40 >percent and provide health insurance, " he said. > > Yovana Cisneros Espindola, 23, the wife of an undocumented farm >worker from Mexico, was fortunate, because of her pregnancy, to >have state health insurance last year when she suffered her first >multiple sclerosis attack, which temporarily blinded her. Her child >was born last November, and she no longer has insurance and cannot >afford the pills needed to slow the advance of the disease. They >cost $10,000 a year. > > linda Avitia, a worker with Catholic Charities, wrote to the >Biogen pharmaceutical company, which agreed to give Ms. Cisneros >the medication for three months and to consider renewing the gift. > > Ms. Cisneros's husband, Francisco, hardly ever sees a doctor. > > > " It's too expensive, " Mr. Cisneros said at their dark, crowded >apartment in Visalia, Calif. " Even if I have a bad fever, I go to >work anyway. If I miss work to go to a doctor, how am I going to >pay for food for my family? " > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13LABO.html?ex=990807442ei=1 & en= d9bea1d675a1fc52 > Don Villarejo, PhD P.O. Box 381 , CA 95617 (530)756-6545 voice & facsimile ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:42:35 -0700 From: " Lighthall " <dlighthall@...> Subject: RE: NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. HI Don: The story was great although I was upset the way the CPRC credit was written--sounds like they did the research! Was this the plan? Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Don Villarejo [mailto:donfarm@...] Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 8:10 PM Subject: [ ] NYTimes.com Article: Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. Hi Everyone - The following story ran in the Sunday, May 13, 2001, issues of the New York Times. It is based on the California Agricultural Worker Health Survey. Don Villarejo >Fear and Poverty Sicken Many Migrant Workers in U.S. > > >By STEVEN GREENHOUSE > > > >CUTLER, Calif. - Francisco Plaza, a 35-year-old farm worker from >Mexico, made a rare visit to a doctor last year after he suddenly >lost a lot of weight. The doctor told him that he had diabetes and >ordered him to take two medications that cost $134 a month. > > But Mr. Plaza, who prunes fruit trees for $6.25 an hour, often >skips his medicine, saying he cannot afford it after paying for >food and rent. > > " Some months he doesn't get much work, so it's hard to afford, " >his wife, lva, said at their modest home in this Central Valley >farm town. " When he doesn't work, he doesn't buy his medicine. " > > Mr. Plaza, who has lived in the United States for four years, is >in the same bind as many other Mexican farm workers who live more >or less permanently in the United States. While federal clinics for >migrants are supposed to serve all indigent farm workers, illegal >immigrants shun them because they do not qualify for state Medicaid >coverage and fear discovery of their illegal status. (Almost half >of the migrant farm workers are in the country illegally.) Farm >workers often do not see doctors until their condition is so dire >that they must go to emergency rooms, which are not permitted to >turn them away. > > " A situation we see every day is a terrible diabetic who can't >afford the $200 a month for medicine, and that person ends up with >renal failure, " Dr. Sablan, who runs a clinic for farm >workers in Firebaugh, Calif., said. " Then they're able to get a >state health insurance card and dialysis. That's $1 million a >year. " > > Diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia occur at higher rates >among California's 700,000 immigrant farm workers, mainly from >Mexico, than among Americans, and the workers' health worsens the >longer they stay in the United States. > > A study to be released this month found that poor diet and >infrequent visits to doctors make the health of longtime migrant >farm workers considerably worse than that of those who have just >arrived, even after accounting for differences in age. > > Preliminary findings by the California Policy Research Center in >Berkeley indicate that illegal immigrant farm workers, newly >arrived from Mexico, have far lower cholesterol, lower blood >pressure and less obesity than do farm workers who have lived here >legally for a while. > > " It's an appalling picture, " said K. Ross, president of the >California Endowment, a foundation specializing in health issues. > " These are people who help keep food prices low for American >families, and I have a hard time figuring out why their health >status should be so poor. " > > Many things complicate the farm workers' health, including >unfamiliarity with American medicine and a lack of exercise in the >long stretches they are unemployed. A poor diet is a key to their >high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and anemia, researchers >say, and it gets worse as the migrants combine American fast food >with the staples of tacos and refried beans. Other factors are the >lack of money and insurance. > > A study released last November found that the women, 36 percent of >the migrants, were far more likely than the men to visit doctors, >largely because pregnant farm workers, even illegal immigrants, >qualify for state health insurance. Indigent men here illegally do >not qualify except for medical emergencies. The median income of >the 971 farm workers in the November study, sponsored by the >California Endowment, was less than $10,000 a year. > > Many growers acknowledge that their workers' health is >substandard, but they blame an inferior health system in Mexico and >the failure of the workers to take care of themselves. Many growers >say they cannot afford to provide insurance. > > But many growers agree with advocates for the workers that the >federal system of community and migrant health clinics is >inadequate. > > " The situation is harder because there aren't enough health >professionals in many of these rural areas, " Don Dressler, >president of insurance services for the Western Growers >Association, said. > > These concerns have made an impression on the Bush administration, >which has proposed a 10 percent, or $124 million, increase next >year for the nation's 3,400 community health clinics, including its >400 migrant health clinics. Advocates for the workers applaud that, >but are unhappy that Mr. Bush has proposed reducing money to train >doctors in underserved rural areas. > > Farm owners say they want laws that will make it easier to provide >discounted health insurance through grower associations for >documented and undocumented workers alike. > > And like many farm workers, growers favor having more >government-sponsored mobile health clinics visit farms. For many >farm workers, simply getting to a clinic is an obstacle - the >clinics are often far away, the workers generally do not own cars, >and buses rarely run between farm communities. > > Don Villarejo, founder of the California Institute of Rural >Studies, which conducted the November study, said the state, >growers and workers should contribute to a health program. He >proposes assessing a few cents per bushel of produce to help >finance the program. > > " For another nickel a head of lettuce, we could raise wages by 40 >percent and provide health insurance, " he said. > > Yovana Cisneros Espindola, 23, the wife of an undocumented farm >worker from Mexico, was fortunate, because of her pregnancy, to >have state health insurance last year when she suffered her first >multiple sclerosis attack, which temporarily blinded her. Her child >was born last November, and she no longer has insurance and cannot >afford the pills needed to slow the advance of the disease. They >cost $10,000 a year. > > linda Avitia, a worker with Catholic Charities, wrote to the >Biogen pharmaceutical company, which agreed to give Ms. Cisneros >the medication for three months and to consider renewing the gift. > > Ms. Cisneros's husband, Francisco, hardly ever sees a doctor. > > > " It's too expensive, " Mr. Cisneros said at their dark, crowded >apartment in Visalia, Calif. " Even if I have a bad fever, I go to >work anyway. If I miss work to go to a doctor, how am I going to >pay for food for my family? " > >http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13LABO.html?ex=990807442ei=1 & en= d9bea1d675a1fc52 > Don Villarejo, PhD P.O. Box 381 , CA 95617 (530)756-6545 voice & facsimile To Post a message, send it to: Groups To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: -unsubscribe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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