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http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014...er-plane-crash
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Authorities say the cause of death for the Hawaii health director who died after an airplane crashed off the island of Molokai was cardiac arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat. Loretta Fuddy died due to the stress from the horrific Dec. 11 plunge into the water after the ...
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To: WildHighlander57; LucyT; hoosiermama
http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/gove...ector/24493268
Governor names Rosen as new state health director
Rosen recently served as chief of the Emergency Medical Resources Administration and Injury Prevention Branch
UPDATED 2:30 PM HST Feb 14, 2014
EXCERPT
Dr. Rosen is a pediatrician by training, working in the emergency and critical care and neonatology departments at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children from 1985 to 2000. She has also been a faculty member of the John A. Burns School of Medicine since 1987, as assistant and associate professor of pediatrics, and is currently an associate clinical professor of pediatrics and surgery.
Serving on a number of health boards and committees, Abercrombie says Dr. Rosen is particularly passionate about reducing death, disability and health disparities through the application of a comprehensive public health approach to illness and injury, focusing on primary prevention and risk reduction.
A graduate of Punahou School, Dr. Rosen earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
103 posted on Monday, February 17, 2014 7:08:05 PM by maggief
To: WildHighlander57
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Artic...ithdrawal.aspx
Friday, January 28, 2011
Adding to its developing reputation for secrecy, the Abercrombie Administration has now clearly lied about at least one aspect of the sudden withdrawal of Dr Neal Palafox’s DoH nomination.
In a short news release January 26, the administration clearly stated that Palafox had asked Governor Abercrombie to withdraw his nomination:
“Dr. Neal Palafox today asked Governor Neil Abercrombie to withdraw his nomination for Director of the State Department of Health. Governor Abercrombie accepted Dr. Palafox’s request and will make a new appointment for the Health Director as soon as possible.”
But this morning’s Star-Advertiser reveals that it was Abercrombie who insisted that Palafox withdraw.
“Gov. Neil Abercrombie asked Dr. Neal Palafox to withdraw his nomination as director of the state Department of Health, but the governor’s staff has declined to publicly disclose the reason….
“While the governor’s staff would not discuss the reasons or circumstances surrounding the sudden departure, Donalyn Dela Cruz, the governor’s spokeswoman, confirmed last night that it was the governor and not Palafox who asked for the withdrawal.”
This only adds to the unanswered questions surrounding the sudden withdrawal. Dr. Palafox is alleged to be the subject of an investigation into medical billing fraud. Whatever advantage the prosecutor’s office might have had from that information being secret has now been lost, yet the public knows nothing about this other than a vague allegation which AP describes as: “TV news reports citing anonymous sources claiming he was under investigation for medical billing fraud.”
And Palafox himself says he knew nothing about it at all. His attorney Brook Hart told the Star-Advertiser:
“He did not volunteer it on his own. He had no idea why the governor asked him to resign. But he did because the governor asked him to do so. He has no information at this point why there’s an investigation, what the investigation is about or even a hint about what it is that somebody is claiming that he did wrong. It’s a complete mystery.”
It is always best to keep a lie simple. And right now “medical billing fraud” is a very simple story. There are no victims to interview. No co-conspirators to question. No records to examine. None of the things which might give credence to the allegation.
Is Palafox being smeared in the media and hounded from office because somehow his nomination interfered with the agenda of other political forces?
(UPDATE) HNN January 28 has an interesting suggestion:
Hart says the timing of the investigation is somewhat suspicious. In Dr. Palafox’s short time as health director he did decide to lay off some powerful people in the department, but his lawyer has no idea if that has anything to do with the case.
A January 27 AP article has a very odd denial:
U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye’s office said allegations that he pressured Abercrombie to oust Palafox are false. “Sen. Inouye and his staff stand ready to assist Gov. Abercrombie and his administration in whatever way possible,” said Inouye spokesman Peter Boylan.
Why would Inouye be asked about this? Who is making “allegations that (Inouye) pressured Abercrombie to oust Palafox?” Nobody is telling.
In the same AP article, Palafox is quoted saying:
“I get handed these e-mails about investigations and so forth, but I have no clue. I’m lost.”
111 posted on Monday, February 17, 2014 8:26:59 PM by maggief
To: maggief; LucyT; null and void; Cold Case Posse Supporter; Flotsam_Jetsome; circumbendibus; ...
“Dr. Rosen is a pediatrician by training, working in the emergency and critical care and neonatology departments at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children from 1985 to 2000.”
“A graduate of Punahou School, Dr. Rosen earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”
What a coincidence! The new HDOH director and protector of Barry’s HI BC worked in the pediatric ER at Kapiolani for 15 years from 1985 through 2000, presumably with access to BC records, and also was a Punahou grad...possibly there when Barry was there...possibly even being in his same class?
I’m not finding what class she was in at Punahou yet...but if she got out of med school in 1985 and Kapiolai ER was her first job, she might be just about Barry’s age or a few years older.
143 posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:27:41 PM by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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The thread references a USNEWS.NBCNEWS.COM article written by Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News -
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014...er-plane-crash
View the complete Free Republic thread at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3121028/posts
Authorities say the cause of death for the Hawaii health director who died after an airplane crashed off the island of Molokai was cardiac arrhythmia — an irregular heartbeat. Loretta Fuddy died due to the stress from the horrific Dec. 11 plunge into the water after the ...
Excerpts from comments in the thread:
To: WildHighlander57; LucyT; hoosiermama
http://www.kitv.com/news/hawaii/gove...ector/24493268
Governor names Rosen as new state health director
Rosen recently served as chief of the Emergency Medical Resources Administration and Injury Prevention Branch
UPDATED 2:30 PM HST Feb 14, 2014
EXCERPT
Dr. Rosen is a pediatrician by training, working in the emergency and critical care and neonatology departments at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children from 1985 to 2000. She has also been a faculty member of the John A. Burns School of Medicine since 1987, as assistant and associate professor of pediatrics, and is currently an associate clinical professor of pediatrics and surgery.
Serving on a number of health boards and committees, Abercrombie says Dr. Rosen is particularly passionate about reducing death, disability and health disparities through the application of a comprehensive public health approach to illness and injury, focusing on primary prevention and risk reduction.
A graduate of Punahou School, Dr. Rosen earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
103 posted on Monday, February 17, 2014 7:08:05 PM by maggief
To: WildHighlander57
http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Artic...ithdrawal.aspx
Friday, January 28, 2011
Adding to its developing reputation for secrecy, the Abercrombie Administration has now clearly lied about at least one aspect of the sudden withdrawal of Dr Neal Palafox’s DoH nomination.
In a short news release January 26, the administration clearly stated that Palafox had asked Governor Abercrombie to withdraw his nomination:
“Dr. Neal Palafox today asked Governor Neil Abercrombie to withdraw his nomination for Director of the State Department of Health. Governor Abercrombie accepted Dr. Palafox’s request and will make a new appointment for the Health Director as soon as possible.”
But this morning’s Star-Advertiser reveals that it was Abercrombie who insisted that Palafox withdraw.
“Gov. Neil Abercrombie asked Dr. Neal Palafox to withdraw his nomination as director of the state Department of Health, but the governor’s staff has declined to publicly disclose the reason….
“While the governor’s staff would not discuss the reasons or circumstances surrounding the sudden departure, Donalyn Dela Cruz, the governor’s spokeswoman, confirmed last night that it was the governor and not Palafox who asked for the withdrawal.”
This only adds to the unanswered questions surrounding the sudden withdrawal. Dr. Palafox is alleged to be the subject of an investigation into medical billing fraud. Whatever advantage the prosecutor’s office might have had from that information being secret has now been lost, yet the public knows nothing about this other than a vague allegation which AP describes as: “TV news reports citing anonymous sources claiming he was under investigation for medical billing fraud.”
And Palafox himself says he knew nothing about it at all. His attorney Brook Hart told the Star-Advertiser:
“He did not volunteer it on his own. He had no idea why the governor asked him to resign. But he did because the governor asked him to do so. He has no information at this point why there’s an investigation, what the investigation is about or even a hint about what it is that somebody is claiming that he did wrong. It’s a complete mystery.”
It is always best to keep a lie simple. And right now “medical billing fraud” is a very simple story. There are no victims to interview. No co-conspirators to question. No records to examine. None of the things which might give credence to the allegation.
Is Palafox being smeared in the media and hounded from office because somehow his nomination interfered with the agenda of other political forces?
(UPDATE) HNN January 28 has an interesting suggestion:
Hart says the timing of the investigation is somewhat suspicious. In Dr. Palafox’s short time as health director he did decide to lay off some powerful people in the department, but his lawyer has no idea if that has anything to do with the case.
A January 27 AP article has a very odd denial:
U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye’s office said allegations that he pressured Abercrombie to oust Palafox are false. “Sen. Inouye and his staff stand ready to assist Gov. Abercrombie and his administration in whatever way possible,” said Inouye spokesman Peter Boylan.
Why would Inouye be asked about this? Who is making “allegations that (Inouye) pressured Abercrombie to oust Palafox?” Nobody is telling.
In the same AP article, Palafox is quoted saying:
“I get handed these e-mails about investigations and so forth, but I have no clue. I’m lost.”
111 posted on Monday, February 17, 2014 8:26:59 PM by maggief
To: maggief; LucyT; null and void; Cold Case Posse Supporter; Flotsam_Jetsome; circumbendibus; ...
“Dr. Rosen is a pediatrician by training, working in the emergency and critical care and neonatology departments at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children from 1985 to 2000.”
“A graduate of Punahou School, Dr. Rosen earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles, a medical degree from the Baylor College of Medicine and a master’s degree in public health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.”
What a coincidence! The new HDOH director and protector of Barry’s HI BC worked in the pediatric ER at Kapiolani for 15 years from 1985 through 2000, presumably with access to BC records, and also was a Punahou grad...possibly there when Barry was there...possibly even being in his same class?
I’m not finding what class she was in at Punahou yet...but if she got out of med school in 1985 and Kapiolai ER was her first job, she might be just about Barry’s age or a few years older.
143 posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:27:41 PM by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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