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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Larry the Cable Guy & Orthopedic Institute?, what?.

Comedian and Orthopedic Institute connection...?,Yes, I am not Joking?. 
The comedian Larry the Cable Guy and his family donated US$5 million to develop a Orthopedic Institute, that is a very good gesture Larry!!. The science and medical research funding has been deteriorating over the years, feds are chopping off the level of funding every year which are allocated for research. Reducing funding over a longer period is going to hurt the innovation and discovery in science/medicine fields, even the third world countries are making better progress in areas like stem cells and regeneration but US science is struggling due to funding issues and regulatory policy issues that restrict certain research fields from making progress. What Larry is doing is the kind of support needed, those who have enough money can initiate development funding like yours, and it is for a great cause.

pretty touching video with childrens and kids...

Newswise report:
Larry the Cable Guy Opens Hip and Orthopedic Institute Released: 5/1/2012 3:30 PM EDT Source: Orlando Health Newswise — Orlando, FL (May 1, 2012) – Larry the Cable Guy, whose real name is Dan Whitney, was on hand at Orlando Health to open the Wyatt Whitney Hip & Orthopedic Institute. The Wyatt Whitney Institute, which is named after the comedian’s five-year-old son, houses a number of specialists and resources dedicated to the treatment of hip and orthopedic conditions. It will emphasize collaboration between physicians and their teams to provide patients seamless, comprehensive orthopedic care from infancy through adulthood. Patients at the institute will have access to advanced pediatric and adult orthopedic services, sports medicine, physical rehabilitation services, and state-of-the-art imaging, along with research and educational resources to enhance their experience. Development of the Wyatt Whitney Institute is possible because of the generosity of Larry the Cable Guy. Nearly two years ago, he and his family donated $5 million through the Git-R-Done Foundation to help fund development of the institute.
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Beware:- Do We Need this column?

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Do Not Become victim to some New Org, association or society...! WARNING:- Be careful in signing up to some rogue organizations and memberships, You must realize that even professionals become prey for such tactics of bottom feeders, just think before you pay that fee, do we need another neuromontioring group, or organization or association bullshit?. They do not deserve to be even in the radar of scientific and medical communities, sorry!!!. I can only alert you, the rest is in your own hands, just because some one claims to have done or do the same kind of job a Professional and trained scholar can do, it means a jack shit!!!?, A doctor and a Doctarate cannot be replaced, those who claims to be doing some jobs can do something, but be careful to assess or compare it to a Doctor or Doctorate, such comparison will fail!!!. Society for Neuroscience and American Association of Anatomists are some of the most respectable and reputed scientific organizations, I dropped off my membership mainly because of their increased fees, I thought it was unjustified and unreasonable, but my respect to those two organizations will never be altered, they deserve great respect for what they do. Tthis message is not about such great associations, on the other hand it is about some rogue individuals trying to con the school students in IONM field or undergraduates who call themselves to be a neurophysioliogist??.Do not think that all the scientific or clinical organizations out there deserve the same respect like that of society for neuroscience or American association anatomists or American clinical Neurophysiologists or least they do the right things!!. Oh wait that is for those established organizations are out there already not for some rogues, but I have been seeing some internet activities of some rogue and decorated Neuromonitoring associations and societies trying to sprung up, just be careful about such org.The above message I had put up on my LinkedIN is to alert you, there are only a couple of Neuromonitoring associations established and in business already and they are good enough, we do not need every tom, dick and harry who did not even go to graduate school to start a association in the name of he or she is a tech for 10000 surgical cases, a Doctor and Doctorate cannot be replaced and there is no exception to it, so beware about rogue people starting societies and organizations and do not waste your hard earned money and resources to it...... stick to the deserved.