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did much to educate the medical community, but were the stuff of HMO disapproval. He held up a small pamphlet, at a meeting he was addressing, which bore the Amerimed logo. "Our medical knowledge swells huge buildings which have resorted to microfiche. No library can contain it all. We have strung the world with electronic so that - maybe - we might get access to some vital but arcane fact buried in the recesses of who knows what dedicated medical facility. Our single biggest problem is the limits of our shovels, digging through mountains of important discovery. We are looking at cosmic scope when penetrating the workings of the flesh. And what? These TOADS limit their responsibility to this fucking fourteen page large print list? Medicine isn't a list! Medicine is the application of the sum total of human knowledge commitment and intuition to the prevention and relief of suffering." He'd wipe his ass with the pamphlet at that point then toss it at the gathering. "Smell it." Tomorrow, seven appointments were on the books, seven long distance travelers seeking help. There was no way to know where any of them were right now, what airports, what hotels, whatever. Regardless, the esteemed Dr. Blake had a legal proceeding in another state in which he was the key medical witness in what would be ground breaking action against the large and unresponsive Hell's Malevolence Organizations, or as, he preferred, the TDO's, the Treatment Denial Organizations which he claimed had surpassed cigarettes in their ill effects on the public. Blake's concept was magnificently simple, a classic counter punch to the left cross these organizations shot out in bribing, lobbying whatever, the ERISA laws into existence. It was ERISA that prohibited law suits against HMOs by patients - no matter what - no exceptions. ERISA was Federal law that superceded and reversed all relevant laws of all the states and communities. No matter what the facts or severity of