Short and to the Point

An excellent commentary from the view in the ER. Those doctors, male and female, see it all, and it's never very pretty! This says it all............ Short, sweet, and to the point!! Starner Jones , MD This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America in large bold letters. This was a letter to the editor on August 29, 2009 in a Jackson , MS newspaper. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sirs: "During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care? Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me". Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow. Don't you agree? STARNER JONES, MD Jackson , MS

Keeping Myself safe

Clearly, this will make it obvious that Utah does not have a zero crime rate. Things are not perfect here. This is my reasoning, aside from personal experience, as to why I choose to exercise my right to carry. It is simply to protect myself should I encounter such a situation. I pulled these links off KSL.com, our local newschannel's website, all postings were within the past 72 hours.

Man arrested 27 times; twice this week

Orem police have locked up a man they call a habitual criminal. Not only has he been arrested 27 times now, two of those arrests have been just this week.

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Psychiatrist says Mitchell is capable of controlling his behavior

Prosecutors questioning their key witness Friday at a competency hearing for the man charged in the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart. The New York-based psychiatrist said Brian David Mitchell's behavior is not psychotic.

Dec 4th - 4:45pm

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Man who intentionally set apartment fire still on the loose

Investigators have received a lot of tips and calls about a man who intentionally set an apartment fire, but no arrest has been made.

Dec 4th - 3:57pm

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Man charged in deaths of 2 in Weber County home

A man has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of a mother and son whose bodies were found in a Weber County mobile home.

Dec 4th - 3:05pm

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4 accused of robbing pedestrian

Detectives say four people drove up to a man walking near 6400 South and 1300 East and robbed him at gunpoint.

Dec 4th - 2:48pm

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AG appeals ruling in pregnant teen beating case

The Utah Attorney General's Office is appealing a judge's decision to throw out charges against a teenager accused of hiring a man to beat her up so she would miscarry her baby.

Dec 4th - 1:23pm

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Accused killer claims he shot victims in self-defense

An Iron County man accused in a double murder said he shot the victims in self-defense.

Dec 4th - 12:06pm

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Troopers back to work following shooting investigation

Two Utah Highway Patrol troopers returned to work Friday after being involved in a traffic stop that ended with a teen shooting himself.

Dec 4th - 12:00pm

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Stolen car crashes into duplex

A stolen car slammed into a duplex in West Valley City Friday morning, displacing two families.

Dec 4th - 11:49am

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West Valley City man convicted in murder trial

A jury convicted a West Valley City man of stabbing another man to death, in what prosecutors described as a robbery over movie money.

Man shot in Bluffdale last summer now accused of sexual abuse

A man patrolling his neighborhood as part of his neighborhood watch was shot by a resident and left paralyzed last summer. Now a woman claims the man on patrol sexually abused her long before the shooting.

Dec 3rd - 10:10pm

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