I've gone and got a coffee while I wait for No Name to respond....but in the meantime here are some of the other things that have been accomplished over the past year and change....

1) We have attracted the attention of enough people in the medical community that rumblings of NA can be heard through out our nations - NICE is a perfect example it was the society of handsurgeons over there who asked to have NICE evaluate NA...perhaps one of them will pick up on it and the Brits will have NA on their own soil within a couple of years?

2) We have raised awareness to the point that there are now THREE Paris trained handsurgeons, Dr. Zidel (Florida), Dr. Eaton (Florida), and Dr. Pess (New Jersey), and two other surgeons, Dr Denkler (California), and Dr. Bourland (Tennesse) who perform NA. Dr. Denkler has stated here that he is making arrangements to go to Paris - wonderful and Dr. Pess says he was encouraged to Dr. Eaton as they were classmates.

As an aside...I think it is important that when discussing NA with Newbies - we don't push one particular doctor or website because it is habit....it won't help the spread of NA if our md's think there is only one doctor performing it.

Now I'll post this and check to see of No Name has something they wish to 'discuss' about DC.

See you later.

Anon

Anon,
I am actually surprised that "no name" jumped into this. I assure you that I am not "no name". It would be interesting to know who it is, and why now, and what his/her experience is with DC? But, you know and I know that there has been a coordinated attack on me, or anyone, who has had a good experience with surgery. This was not debate, it was an attack. It was an attack even when people presented information to ponder from PUBMED or any other scholarly presentations. There wasn't a desire to learn more, it was not a debate, it was a desire to attack. It was an attack when surgeons were labeled as butchers, greedy etc. by many of you. Or that there was this giant conspiracy of the medical/and or insurance community against DC sufferers etc. If you consider that debate, it was the very lowest form.
Hopefully some have matured on this forum, we'll see.

'Coordinated attack'?????

What proof do you have of this?

I know you have none, of course, but feel that your unbridled allegations(perhaps indicative of paranoia) should not go unchallenged.

toM,

You are among the attack artists and have attacked me on a number of occasions and I can see other reason why you are on this site other than to attack others. In your attacks on me, you call me a coward and demand my email address. I cannot think of any reason for this request other than to harass me. Why do you want my email address? Someone has used email to harass others on this site before. Enough of the names. Enough of the attacks.

As to Sean's question as to why I'm in this fray. I developed an aggressive form of dups a few years ago and even with all the noise on this site, there is a lot of good information to be found here and I have researching dups quite a bit over the last several years. I had surgery nearly a year ago, but face a long future with this disease.

I am also in this fray because I have been accused of being Sean, Gary, Frances, "the troll" and a few other choice names. But, I'm not any of them and I found that similar attacks have been directed to others and that's just a shame. It should be amusing, but as I share a rare disease and this site has good information, I cannot stand by and be attacked and not respond.

The only reasonable approach is to point out the attackers, but not become engaged in their games. All they want to do is hurt others while claiming the high ground. In the end, you cannot have it both ways.

As I see it Anon is the big trouble maker here. He/she is always baiting someone. This Anon should calm down and mellow out.