Major Nidal Hasan never favored going to the firing range, so why did he open fire on his fellow soldiers?
According to this family, Dr. Hasan, Alumni of Virginia Tech, wanted to get out of the Army because he was constantly harassed and called by racial slurs such as “camel jockey.” Despite his high rank and medical achievements, he had a difficult time enduring the stress of dealing with his colleagues.
Why couldn’t he pull rank on those that spoke to him in a derogatory manner?
However, Dr. Nidal Hasan also suffered from stress of getting orders of deployment to Iraq. The same sort of stress that he counseled other soldiers on that were being deployed to and from the war zone in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry specialist, he had opportunities of speaking with other specialists like himself. Instead he chose to fall victim to his own destructive nature of being a suicide killer.
“Just keep in mind mass killers pretty much know they want to die and they tend to take as many people with them as they can in a shooting,” said former FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett, who also believes Hasan didn’t want to survive the Ft. Hood shooting.
“It is one of those things where he went and wanted to kill a lot of people and commit suicide maybe in his own mind that he’s saving peoples’ lives,” said Garrett. “As illogical as that sounds, in his mind, that would be quite logical.”
After killing 13 soldiers and wounding a dozen others, Major Nidal Hasan is now stable after being taken down by a female civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley.
According to Vitals.com, Dr Nidal Hasan specializes in Psychiatry & Neurology. His medical school was the Uniformed Services University F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. He was recently promoted to major this past May.
Dr. Nidal Hasan went on a wild shooting rampage in Fort Hood killing and wounding many. It is striking to note that Dr. Hasan just completed his fellowship at USUHS for Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry.
Dr. Nidal Hasan (nytimes.com/CSTS website)
Update: Vitals.com just checked the ratings logs and the below comment came in at 5:30pm EST, while the shooting was at 4:30pm EST and we suspect this comment by Pvt J. Hammond maybe fictitious. Thanks to our readers for pointing out the impossibilities of his comments.
The following comment was written earlier today on Vitals.com by someone calling himself Pvt J. Hammond.
“Although he was hard to understand (strong accent) this doctor helped me come to terms with my conscientious objector status.While I am still not thrilled about being deployed to Iraq, I at least understand how doing so to protect my fellow soldiers is a good thing.”
A 20-year old NYU student leaped to his death from the 10th floor of Bobst Library, leaving a suicide note behind in his dorm. This tragedy once again revives the concerns about the high number of suicides at this college in recent years.
Dr. Jess P. Shatkin, director of Undergraduate Studies in Child and Adolescent Mental Health at NYU Langone Medical Center, states that a combination of factors contribute to a college student’s anxiety and depression. Living away from home, managing one’s own time and expenses and dealing with peer pressure are only some of the difficulties they face. He believes these issues become more difficult for students at large, decentralized universities such as NYU.
“There is a level of monitoring that just can’t happen on an urban campus,” Shatkin said.
According to Vitals.com, Shatkin received his medical degree at State University of New York Downstate College of Medicine and completed his specialty training at UCLA Medical Center.
At least nine students at NYU have committed suicide since 2002 reports the New York Times, including four in 2004. The school has attempted to curb the problem by expanding counseling services and creating a 24-hour hotline that student could call about suicide concerns
Bobst Library at NYU (wikimedia.org)
In 2003 two students chose Bobst Library to kill themselves, leading the university to install eight feet high Plexiglas panels around the perimeter of the atrium. The university also restricted access to the balconies so students were not allowed above the second floor after 1 a.m. But somehow Andrew Williamson-Noble got inside and over the wall, which was not an easy thing to do.
Friends say Williamson-Noble, who was majoring in East Asian Studies, was a funny, happy guy. Although the NYU student’s life was marked by tragedy early on when, at age 6, his infant brother died of sudden infant death syndrome. Even though he left a suicide note behind, he gave no prior indication to his family or friends that he was about to kill himself.
“I wish I had more friends who were on the same sleep cycle as me,” he wrote. “There’s a considerable loneliness that comes from being awake when few others are. One feels both that one owns the world, and that despite this triumph, has no one to share it with.”
It isn’t always apparent how desperately unhappy college students become before it’s too late. Student suicides still total some 1,100 a year nationwide, second to motor vehicle accidents, according to the Daily Beast. The Jed Foundation, a New York based college suicide prevention program, estimates that one in ten college students have considered taking his or her own life.
The 2009 National Survey of Counseling Directors reported a 94 percent increase in students with severe psychological problems and 91 percent were already taking psychiatric medications. The increasing use of antidepressants means more students with psychological problems are functional enough to make their way onto college campuses and can hopefully control their illness with counseling and medication.
Andrew Williamson-Noble (nydailynews.com)
The colleges walk a fine line when it comes to helping troubled students. Some are worried about liability suits and may overreact and send potentially suicidal student home. But moving too quickly can infringe on their rights, New York City’s Hunter College had to pay 65,000 dollars in 2006 to settle such a case.
Privacy rights limit what mental health professionals can disclose to parents about their troubled children and social stigma often makes it hard for students to reach out. According to a study, more than 80 percent of students who commit suicide never sought counseling beforehand.
These are only some of the challenges colleges face in attempting to identify students who are at risk and helping them get the treatment they need to save their lives.
Dr. Mache Seibel, a.k.a. DocRock (cigna.com/mediaseed.tv)
In a year where the Centers for Disease Control believes that millions will be stricken by swine flu, parents are being even more conscientious about warning their children about the H1N1 virus.
Unfortunately, this warning doesn’t always get through. To cut through these blahs and get the message to your children, Dr. Mache Seibel, a.k.a. DocRock and health services company CIGNA have produced a rap video teaching kids five steps they can take to avoid getting H1N1.
“Sneeze into your sleeve, wash your hands and keep you fingers outta your mouth and nose, cuz that the places H1N1 goes” is just one of the rhymes DocRock has developed for this lyrical lesson.
You can see additional videos including “Healthful Tips” at www.youtube.com/cignatv.
Please note that the basis of this report is from Rene Najera at the examiner.com. Please click here to read the original article and for more detailed information. Youtube videos of a former NFL Washington Redskins cheerleader who allegedly acquired dystonia from a flu vaccine has been making the rounds online. The cheerleader, Desiree Jennings, says that symptoms of dystonia started appearing shortly after taking the flu vaccine.
Dr. Leigh Vinocur
Dr. Leigh Vinocur completed her undergraduate coursework at the University of Michigan where she graduated with high honors. She subsequently earned an M.D. at Wayne State University in Detroit where she also completed post-graduate training, including an internship in general surgery and in urology and a residency in emergency medicine. She is licensed to practice medicine in the State of Maryland.
Dr. Vinocur has received numerous awards including the Medical Award from the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence and the prestigious Emergency Medical Award from the American College of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Leigh Vinocur is currently employed as an emergency medicine doctor from the University of Maryland Medical System offered an alternative cause to Ms. Jennings’ syndrome. Dr. Vinocur stated that there have been no cases of dystonia associated with the flu vaccine and that neurology experts at the University of Maryland were using Ms. Jennings’ case to teach neurology residents about psychogenic dystonia.
Desiree Jennings (2.bp.blogspot.com)
Dystonia is a movement disorder that causes the muscles to contract and spasm involuntarily. The neurological mechanism that makes muscles relax when they are not in use does not function properly. Opposing muscles often contract simultaneously as if they are “competing” for control of a body part. The involuntary muscle contractions force the body into repetitive and often twisting movements as well as awkward, irregular postures. Dystonia affects people of all ages and backgrounds. Dystonia is a neurological disorder where twitches and other repetitive, involuntary reactions occur. Normally, these repetitive actions do not let up. On the video, Ms. Jennings’ symptoms subside at times. According to Dr. Vinocur, neurologists saw the video and were convinced it was psychogenic.
Psychogenic disorders originate in the mind or in mental or emotional processes; having a psychological rather than a physiological origin. This does not mean that a person is faking their symptoms. Rather, it means that the person truly believes that the symptoms are real. However, there is no physiological reason for the symptoms. It truly is all in their head. Psychotherapy or some medications to treat the mental issues can help deal with psychogenic disorders.
Dr. Leigh Vincour says that Ms. Jennings’ story that she acquired flu from the flu vaccine is a scientific impossiblity. The flu virus in the injected vaccine is dead, inactive. In the solution being injected, the virus has no cells in which to live and reproduce. Viruses are, by definition, obligate intracellular parasites. They need cells to live, grow, and reproduce. There has been no recorded case of acquired flu from the flu shot vaccine.
Dr. Stephen Carolan, a well-respected Connecticut surgeon and family man, had been fooling around on the side and in the wings of the Greenwich Hospital with his mistress, Jill Kent, according to hospital staff.
Upon ending the affair with the mistress, Carolan is now in a back and forth legal battle with Kent, who “has conducted a defamatory vendetta against” the doctor “with an escalating series of malicious falsehoods that she has published on the Internet.”
According to Vitals.com, Dr. Stephen Carolan is an esteemed Obstetrician & Gynecologist who holds an NCQA award and is one of Castle Connelly’s Top Doctors in the New York Metro Area.
Retired pro football players have several times the national rate of Alzheimer’s disease and other memory afflictions than normal populations. Former players between the age of 30-40 experience memory-related diseases at a rate of 19 times of that of men who didn’t play, according to an analysis of a study by the New York Times.
Last week the House Judiciary Committee confronted the commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, accusing the league of neglect. Besides Goodell, the witness panel featured former players such as retired New York Giant standout Tiki Barber, Merrill Hoge, George Martin and Gay Culverhouse, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneers team president.
Goodell and the league were quick to point out that the studies did not prove an actual link between concussions and Alzheimer’s or other head related diseases. The NFL’s conclusion was reached despite the New York Times analysis, an NFL survey with similar findings and several other corroborating independent studies.
Their interpretation of the studies might be influenced by the league’s revenue, which totals nearly seven billion dollars. But it is unfortunately at the expense of 2,000 current players and more than 10,000 retirees associated with the NFL. Not to mention its effect on the millions of players at the college, high school and youth levels, reports the New York Times.
Head first accidents on the field (courant.com)
Among the medical expert witnesses were researchers from Boston University School of Medicine center for studying types of brain trauma.
Dr. Ann McKee one of Boston University’s representatives, showed the committee images of brains of dead football players.
She testified that all 11 of the former collegiate and professional football players she had examined showed “severe” signs of degradation. Before they died, many of the players had suffered from memory loss and emotional disturbances.
“We need to take radical steps to change the way football is played,” said Dr. McKee.
According to Vitals.com, McKee received her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed her specialty training at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Missing from the two panels of witnesses was Dr. Ira Casson, the co-chairman of the NFL’s committee. Casson has been criticized for discrediting all the outside research and his own role in the league’s study has been questioned. Independent experts believe the results are flawed by conflicts of interest, statistical and sampling problems.
Mr. Goodell agreed to turn over all medical records to Congress for independent review, but in an interview after his testimony he said he would not release medical records because of confidentiality issues.
This lack of cooperation will continue to harm not only players on powerhouse professional teams such as the Giants, Jets and Patriots. Sadly experts have noted that many concussions particularly at lower levels of football go undiagnosed, meaning that many players who never make it to the pros face serious health consequences as well.
The needs of the millions of players at all levels, including college, high school and youth, need to be addressed. Experts feel more can and should be done by changing rules reducing contact to the head and neck; teaching better tackling techniques and developing new equipment, especially better helmets.
Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson, an emergency room doctor who spent more than twenty years working at Beverly Hospital in Montebello, has been found guilty of deliberately slamming on his brakes, sending two cyclists into the back of his car.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Monday found Dr. Thompson guilty of assaulting cyclists by abruptly stopping his car in front of them on a hilly Los Angeles County road last year.
He was found guilty on two counts of reckless driving, two counts of battery, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of mayhem and could face as much as five years in prison.
Ron Peterson, one of the cyclists, testified that Thompson drove past him and a fellow bicyclist on a narrow stretch of Mandeville Canyon Road in Brentwood, honked his horn and yelled at them to “ride single-file.”
Peterson testified that he yelled an expletive at Thompson. That’s when Thompson swerved in front of the bikers and hit the brakes, Peterson testified.
Dr. Colin Linehan behind wife, Mechele (daylife.com)
In October, 2007, Mechele Linehan, wife of Dr. Colin Linehan a family practitioner in Olympia, WA, was convicted of premeditated murder for a million-dollar insurance policy payout. Kent Leppink’s case, a fisherman in Alaska and the murder victim, reached national attention being featured on the CBS documentary show, 48 Hours Mystery.
In 1996, Leppink met Mechele Linehan at a stripclub, the Great Alaska Bush Company, where she worked as a nude dancer. Initially, a forensic psychologist testified of her community involvement and vegetarianism which worked in Linehan’s favor of not being a suspect. However, Leppink’s letter to his parents stated his fear of being murdered and naming those who would be involved, Linehan was one of them.
Mechele Linehan was given a maximum sentence of 99 years in prison. She holds a Master’s of Public Administration and has one daughter, Audrey Linehan.
According to Vitals.com, highly rated Dr. Colin Linehan completed Tulane University School of Mdicine and is affiliated with Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, WA.
Doctor Roger Starner Jones is a seventh generation Mississippian and his extracurricular interests are golf, hunting, fishing and college football. He specializes in emergency medicine at The University of Mississippi medical Center.
Dr. Starner Jone (umc.edu)
This Letter to the Editor, written by Doctor Jones about health care in America, is from the August 29th edition of Jackson, Mississippi’s newspaper, the Clarion Ledger.
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 ring tone.
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 President 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.
Dr. Ralph Edward Newsome Jr., 45, was a prominent plastic and reconstructive surgeon and known for healing the disfigured limbs and facial features of trauma victims and skin cancer patients with his scalpel. He was an instructor, at Tulane University’s School of Medicine and he moved to New Orleans more than a decade ago and treated patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His home and garden occasionally opened to the public, as part of a French Quarter garden tour. In the pond outside his home, speckled orange and white Koi swim alongside larger black fish that eat algae. His pets — two Leopard tortoises — walk atop the brick pavement.
Dr. Ralph Newsome
His life was cut shorth as he was stabbed to death inside of his French Quarter home early Saturday. An arsonist then lit his home on fire in an apparent attempt to destroy any clues leading to his killer, according to authorities.
Dr. Ralph Newsome had earned certifications from the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery before joining Tulane’s medical school faculty in 1998. He worked his way to assistant dean of medical education at Tulane and served as the chief of plastic surgery. At Tulane, he nursed a passion for healing the limbs of patients wounded in car accidents and physical assaults. His skills especially suited him to care for people stricken with skin cancer — he could not only surgically remove their tumors, he could also repair the disfigurements the procedures left behind. Raised beds ran along the outside. Water rushed down a pond and wall fountain. A climbing fig tree rests in the middle.
Dr. Ralph Newsome Pets his Tortoise in his Garden (Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune)
Doctor Douglas Slakey, the chairman of surgery at Tulane Hospital says “I’ve never seen a more committed physician he dealt with patients with cancer for reconstruction with birth defects he was so devoted to his patients and improving their quality. he was one of the truly committed he was back in his home in french quarter immediately after the flood. And he worked tirelessly to bring healthcare to new orleans i’ve never seen a more committed person who really embodied what we all love about new orleans. The enthusiasm the love, the commitment.”
Dr. Rima E Laibow is a medical doctor who has been in private practice since the 1970s. She graduated from Albert Einstein Medical College in 1970 and after years of private practice she has dedicated her life to Codex Alimentarius.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, et al.,
Defendants.
DR. LAIBOW’S SECOND DECLARATION IN SUPPORT OF COMPLAINT
Rima E. Laibow, MD, New York State Medical License #111813, declares under penalty of perjury pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1746 that the following information is true to best of my knowledge and belief and that if called to testify in this matter I could testify competently to these facts.
1. I am a Plaintiff in this matter. In addition, I am a licensed physician and graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Furthermore, I have carefully studied the history of immunization through vaccination and have published on the topic.
2. In my considered professional opinion, to a reasonable degree of professional certainty, I find that there is no significant scientific agreement that any influenza vaccine prevents influenza epidemics or pandemics or, for that matter, protects those who are vaccinated from contracting influenza. There is, however, significant professional opinion that influenza vaccines provide no protection or efficacy in the face of adverse-event risk, which would be totally absent in those who have never had influenza vaccines. In the peer-reviewed scientific literature, I further find that competent scientific investigation leads to the conclusion that the use of live virus mist vaccines may very well increase the incidence of the disease. Those children who have been vaccinated have a 3-fold increase in hospitalizations for all causes compared to those children naïve to vaccination for influenza. Children vaccinated with live–cold-adapted-influenza-virus vaccines have an even greater likelihood of neurological and other disorders that have no known cures.
3. One example of the growing scientific agreement that there is no emergency upon which to base the April 25, 2009 Pandemic Declaration followed by the October 23, 2009 Declaration of National Emergency is that both morbidity and mortality from Swine Flu are completely unknown and, given the current state of laboratory testing and identification of the virus, unknowable. As a three month-long CBS News investigation reported, nearly 90% of alleged “Swine Flu” (2009 -H1N1-A) cases were something else.1 Though the Defendant CDC has claimed to stop counting cases, the Defendants initially were “counting” all respiratory illness and death in the absence of accurate laboratory tests as though they were caused by 2009-H1N1-A. Based on the findings of the CBS News investigation, such a position is simply contrary to the evidence and flies in the face of all respectable scientific and epidemiological methodology.
4. Further, an NIH media release of October 21, 2009 shows that influenza vaccines have a range of what the proponents consider to be immune system responses in up to 36% of the test subjects. The induction of an immune system response of some sort, not necessarily a disease-protective one in little more than one-third of the population puts that response squarely in the placebo response range. The close link between the mind and the immune system is very well known: results like these are seen with sugar pills and saline injections. This level of immune response is well within the range of placebo results. This immune system response has not been proven to be associated with any protective benefit. This is the case because the immune response that occurs following vaccination is substantively different from that which occurs when, in the absence of formaldehyde, thimerisol, aluminum, gentimycin, Polysorbate 80, squalene, foreign proteins, adventitious viruses, malignancy-causing and otherwise, and other vaccine ingredients and/or contaminants, a virus is encountered by the immune system from natural contact.
5. I have further considered the largest meta-study of all U.S. influenza vaccine uptake and vaccination-related outcomes, by David A. Geier, Paul G. King, and Mark R. Geier, published in the respected Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, that showed no significant protection from the flu for the vaccinated.2
6. My conclusion is that there is no significant public health benefit to be expected from the Defendants’ carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign in favor of the Vaccines. Rather, the Vaccines’ approvals demonstrate a clear and present danger to the public, released by the Defendants, in the form of the Vaccines, owned, approved, recommended and provided by the Defendants through agents of the Defendant CDC’s choosing, to the detriment of the Plaintiffs.
7. It is my professional opinion that nasal mist vaccines provide a continuing contagion for those who have not been exposed to the vaccines that places unvaccinated persons at potential serious risk. Since the nasal mist vaccines cause both shedding of infectious viruses in the absence of disease in the vaccinated person AND shedding in the presence of the disease which the nasal vaccine is, according to its manufacturer, designed to produce. Thus, whether the people volunteer for the nasal mist vaccine or are given the vaccine on a mandated basis or refuse the vaccine, they WILL be exposed to not only the bioengineered cold-adapted versions of three “seasonal influenza viruses” but also a cold-adapted version of a novel virus that the WHO, FDA and the President of these United States have declared to be of nearly inestimable harm to humans. Thus, those who do not take the vaccine are being exposed against their will by their own government to four live influenza viruses, one of which that government claims could kill them.
8. I would not be able to walk the streets of my home State of New York, where I have lived since 1968, without risk of exposure to the live viruses in the live-virus vaccines that the Defendants have unleashed on an unsuspecting public or some mutated live virus or viruses spread by the person or persons in whom one or more of the inoculated live viruses mutated. I therefore petition this Court to recognize my standing to sue to protect myself from the underlying, unlawful vaccine approvals and disinformative recommendations, pronouncements, and pro-vaccination infomercials promulgated by the Defendants.
I certify that the above statements by me are true and accurate; I am aware I am subject to punishment as for perjury if any are willfully false.
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