Thursday, May 31, 2007
TB and Andrew Speaker
ABC News with what he is likely to go through:Thursday, doctors at National Jewish planned to try two more antibiotics against the extensively drug-resistant disease -- one oral, the other an intravenous injection.
Dr. Henry Boom, director of the tuberculosis research unit at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, said such a "cocktail" is a common strategy for a resistant case like Speaker's.
"What's done in this situation is that you look at the drug-resistance pattern and try to come up with a cocktail of at least two or three drugs that have potential for treatment," he said.
Three more antibiotics may be on the way for Speaker this week, and doctors will continue to scrutinize an isolated sample of bacterium taken from Speaker's body to see if anything in the current arsenal of medicines can kill it.
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Andrew Speaker is a selfish, dishonest weasel. Now he is trying to spin his situation as being a "victim", first by claiming he was told by the doctors who saw him first--the ones who advised him not to fly out of the country in the first place-- that he was "not a risk", a statement he says was made during a meeting that his father tape recorded. Now he is adding to this rubbish a laughable claim that he feels "abandoned" by the CDC.
So why did he return to the U.S. against second and clearly stronger recommendations that he should not fly? Why did he not report for treatment in Italy as he was told? Why did he travel under subterfuge to Canada and then enter the USA by land? Why did he then report to a New York hospital for treatment if he wouldn't go to health authorities in Europe as instructed?
This is a selfish irresponsible person who refuses to acknowledge is own bad behavior. And he is a "personal injury" attorney.
Some news sources say he is a nice personable guy. Trial lawyers can be manipulative like that, think Jon Edwards. This guy deserves the public scorn; he is educated enough to know better and yet did whatever he wanted.
He deserves to be sitting at the defendant table in a civil trial across from someone like himself.
So why did he return to the U.S. against second and clearly stronger recommendations that he should not fly? Why did he not report for treatment in Italy as he was told? Why did he travel under subterfuge to Canada and then enter the USA by land? Why did he then report to a New York hospital for treatment if he wouldn't go to health authorities in Europe as instructed?
This is a selfish irresponsible person who refuses to acknowledge is own bad behavior. And he is a "personal injury" attorney.
Some news sources say he is a nice personable guy. Trial lawyers can be manipulative like that, think Jon Edwards. This guy deserves the public scorn; he is educated enough to know better and yet did whatever he wanted.
He deserves to be sitting at the defendant table in a civil trial across from someone like himself.
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: 7:08 AM
: 7:08 AM
beautifully put. the guy is a classic example of the type of person his profession would love to attack.
It was stated in earlier reports that Mr. Andrew Speaker has active TB. Then the CDC declares that he is not contagious? Isn't it that active TB is contagious? They need to get their facts straightened because the public relies on those information. As for Mr. Speaker, knowing that he is a personal injury lawyer, he should have answered one of the important questions being asked in his field before boarding 7 flights. "What is the most prudent thing to do?"
If he followed the right answer, then we would not be in this mess in the first place.
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If he followed the right answer, then we would not be in this mess in the first place.
# posted by : 12:48 PM
: 12:48 PM
