>after reading your daring diagnosis of Ms Drew ... seems like a wise move.
>your license might be at stake.

>Did it ever occur to any of the folks showing up and dentist-bashing that the
>reason this group had existed for so long was that it was a decent place for
>patients to ask questions and get thoughtful answers?
>That if you had started some kind of other newsgroup with your views, people
>who were interested would show up there?
>You could have had a little thoughtfulness towards other people than yourself
>(the other patients).
>Maybe the anti-amalgam folk will turn out to be right. I doubt  most of the
>people who visit here (dentists and people with chronic dental needs, like
>me)
>would have been averse to thoughtful, respectful presentations. But since
>scimeddentistry is like a "virtual dentists office" did you think all this
>attacking would do anything but disrupt what the patients visiting it were
>seeking?

>**>Date: 4/25/01 7:18 PM US Eastern Standard Time

>**>
>**>after reading your daring diagnosis of Ms Drew ... seems like a wise move.
>**>your license might be at stake.
>**
>**Did I miss something here? I think you have him mixed up with someone else.
>**
>**Maybe Dr Karen Anderson?
>**
>**Jan

>nope ... garrity

>**Newsgroups: sci.med.dentistry
>**Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:34:21 GMT

>**
>**Jan,
>**
>** From that post regarding the young child with the mild inflammation around
>**some stainless steel crowns, I find you to be certifiable and fully a
>**candidate for Electoro-shock-therapy. The only problem is we don't perform
>**electro-shock-therapy these days. But I still believe you are a candidate
>**for the outdated procedure:
>**
>**     "A little dab' ll  do  ya"  (Jack Nicholson)

>   This newsgroup was 'fun' for a while and I have had my long absences. I
> have recently picked up some mails that disturb me. This group might have
> started out in a pristene manner but it now takes all manner of BS from the
> 'less than well informed' and those idiotic posts become the fodder for
> continuing debate. I'm gonna go watch Ophra for some real substance.

>  And a classmate of mine recently quit because he was too good, too
> qualified and mostly too honest for this group. He is Michael Herndon. I
> know that guy from dental school,  and he is maybe too honest for this
> group. Now I have aged into that same state of honesty.

>   Both Mike Herndon and Mike Garrity will visit from time to time to see
> what is being fomented, but I doubt either one of us will see anything of
> substance to keep us here for more than a parting shot.

>  In that the group has done extremely well (pfffhg) without us, I doubt we
> will be missed. My input might have been fluffy, but Michael Herndon's would
> have knocked your socks off. His accomplishments and efforts make me want to
> become better myself. And I had the exact same teachers (undergrad) that
> Herndon had. But he took it to a much higher plane of both expertise and
> ethics. (Yes, I know that those latter terms are 'relative'. Relative to
> your training, practice, experience and personal code.)

> Michael

>   This newsgroup was 'fun' for a while and I have had my long absences. I
> have recently picked up some mails that disturb me. This group might have
> started out in a pristene manner but it now takes all manner of BS from
the
> 'less than well informed' and those idiotic posts become the fodder for
> continuing debate. I'm gonna go watch Ophra for some real substance.

>  And a classmate of mine recently quit because he was too good, too
> qualified and mostly too honest for this group. He is Michael Herndon. I
> know that guy from dental school,  and he is maybe too honest for this
> group. Now I have aged into that same state of honesty.

>   Both Mike Herndon and Mike Garrity will visit from time to time to see
> what is being fomented, but I doubt either one of us will see anything of
> substance to keep us here for more than a parting shot.

>  In that the group has done extremely well (pfffhg) without us, I doubt we
> will be missed. My input might have been fluffy, but Michael Herndon's
would
> have knocked your socks off. His accomplishments and efforts make me want
to
> become better myself. And I had the exact same teachers (undergrad) that
> Herndon had. But he took it to a much higher plane of both expertise and
> ethics. (Yes, I know that those latter terms are 'relative'. Relative to
> your training, practice, experience and personal code.)

> Michael