On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 02:02:44 GMT, "Steph" <steph@vancouver.island>
wrote:

>
>"Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message 
>news:BDD8427D.2DA0F%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>> in article %Cnsd.434746$%k.151779@pd7tw2no, Steph at 
>> steph@vancouver.island
>> wrote on 12/5/04 3:47 AM:
>>
>>>
>>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>> news:BDD7A102.2D968%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>>> in article PRcsd.426102$nl.2541@pd7tw3no, Steph at 
>>>> steph@vancouver.island
>>>> wrote on 12/4/04 3:32 PM:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>>>>> news:BDD75D01.2D91D%eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Probably it has something to do with most of them being educated
>>>>>> professional types. Many of my Canadian friends are fellow lawyers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I knew it.......
>>>>>
>>>>>> It is
>>>>>> usually the lower classes who bash the States because of their own
>>>>>> self-inadequacies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Must be true then, a lawyer said it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Patronising bastard
>>>>
>>>> So you have problems with people of the professional class? Why am I not
>>>> surprised?
>>>
>>>
>>>   I don't mate. I'm of a rather more professional class than you, in 
>>> fact.
>>
>> I sincerely doubt that. What profession are you "claiming"?
>>
>
> I hope you're not a trial lawyer, Ernie. Any intelligent expert witness 
>would make mincemeat of you. You can't maintain a cogent argument, you are 
>patronising, arrogant and supercilious, and probably the cream of your 
>society - rich and thick.
>Don't you know the dangers associated with a) assuming you know about 
>someone when you have no actual information and b) asking a question if you 
>don't already know the answer. I guess you must be an ambulance chaser.
>
>My profession? Well, let's see..........
>
>I have "Dr" before my name and "MB ChB, LMCC, MRCP(UK), FRCR, FRCPC" after 
>it. I'm a medical specialist certified in internal medicine, clinical 
>oncology and radiation oncology, and I'm a clinical assistant professor in 
>the division of radiation oncology and department of surgery at the 
>University of British Columbia. I'm also chairman of the provincial head and 
>neck cancer tumour group.
>
>Professional enough for you?
>
>Oh, and by the way, I have received a personal invitation from your Congress 
>each year for the past 4 years to visit DC to sit on a Physical Imaging 
>research proposal review committee for the Congressionally Directed Medical 
>Research Programs. A Canadian assessing US research proposals!
>
>So, Ernie, stop wasting our time and go and chase some ambulances. 
>
>
You and I almost certainly have an acquaintance in common for whom I
have the most immense respect as a medical oncologist. I won't
embarrass anyone with names here, but I shall definitely continue to
treat you with loving kindness!



Michil