Patrick

[Flounder]

I was going to stay out of this discussion until Mindi posted that she doesn't see what Mammography has to do with cancer. I feel it is my duty to educate her.

Dr. Hugo Strax was a Surgeon, and his brother Dr. Selig Strax was a Radiologist. Their specialty was diagnosis and treatment of Breast Cancer. It was Selig who invented Mammography in the sixties, as a means of early diagnosis. That remains IT'S SOLE PURPOSE.

You might wonder why I am so familiar with this trivial detail. I'll tell you. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1963. Her physicians were the Strax brothers. She had a radical Mastectomy in 1964 that gave her another 15 years of life, but she ultimately succumbed to Cancer in 1979. She died in Calvary hospital in the Bronx. The cancer had migrated to her brain and lungs, she was in constant and severe pain, and could not recognize my father nor myself in the end. She cursed at us for disturbing her sleep.

Not the most pleasant of memories, something that happened long before you were born. I hadn't thought about it in years until Patricks tasteless post. If you could support this as harmless, you would find an excuse for a mass murderer. The boy is a loose cannon. I am sure there was no malicious intent, but you know what? INTENT DOES NOT MATTER ONE WHIT! All that matters is results.

Thanks for the cry. I probably needed it.
May your lives be filled with people exactly like yourselves.

Flounder