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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

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Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>


> > Many moons ago, I worked in a hospital as a cardiopulmonary tech.  That
> > job entails working a lot with the elderly and people over 50 in
> > general.  During those years, I saw a correlation between age and the
> > amount of effort and care one receives.
>
> While I was in the ER, the ambulance called in with a 28 year old with a
> spiral fracture of the arm. The ER arranged to have her taken to a larger
> hospital in the next county to have it worked on by an orthopedic 
> specialist
> right away. My mother had been in the ER over an hour by then, and they
> hadn't even gotten her to x-ray yet. Age discrimination lives.