"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
news:3F7182F8.538AD31C@yahoo.co.jp...
> Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> > Talk about a freaking code of silence! Heaven forbid that a doctor in
Japan
> > should contradict the opinion of another doctor.
>
> Yes, as doctors have reported, because the medical community is so small,
with
> children of doctors who themselves intend to be doctors, studying or
working
> under acquaintances or doctors their parents are indebted to and such,
that
> doing something as terrible as doing what's right, could screw them all
for
> life.

IOW an old boy's network, like so many things in Japan.

> It's pretty hard to deny a needle in the heart if it's still there. They
should
> record all interactions with that hospital, as well as get a lawyer and go
to
> the news.

I have no doubt that they would have denied it -- or more accurately kept
quiet about it -- if they thought they could get away with it.

I won't be the one who goes to the press, but I happen to know that negative
exposure would be very harmful to the hospital and the doctor at this time.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom