Targeted doc a giant among peers
Regarding Paul Harasim’s Sunday column on Dr. James Gabroy, “Handwriting complaint against doctor a mystery”:
I am appalled at the actions of the Nevada State Medical Board, which has threatened to revoke the license of a doctor I consider a medical genius. In 2008, I had a medical incident but my doctor told me not to worry, that it would pass. I went to Dr. Gabroy for a second opinion, and he scheduled the appropriate diagnostics and medical follow-ups.
I had cancer.
Dr. Gabroy followed my medical journey, including daily visits to me while I was hospitalized for 17 days. I am a cancer survivor who owes my recovery to Dr. Gabroy. Dr. Gabroy is a giant among his peers and Nevada should be proud he is a member of our medical community.
The Nevada Medical Board needs to be investigated for this frivolous harassment of this wonderful doctor.
Thomas Zippiroli
Henderson
Stormy weather
I am a four-year Air Force veteran who spent two years with the 54th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron — the typhoon chasers — on Guam from 1949 to 1951. And chase typhoons we did. During 1947 through 1954 we chased 137 typhoons and penetrated them more than 462 times. That flying was done with the loss of one plane. Typhoon Goon II went into the eye of Typhoon Wilma in October 1952 and did not come out.
The Tuesday wire service article, “Typhoons worsening since ‘70s,” did not, in my opinion, go back far enough. The years 1952-1954 saw 14 category 5 storms in the western Pacific, accompanied by seven category 4 storms. The category 5s were penetrated 173 times and the category 4s 55 times. One could make a presumption that the waxing and waning of major storms is cyclical. That, however, was out of my area of expertise.
Robert Mann
Pahrump
Missing detail
It was interesting reading the Sunday article, “Young Guns,” about homicides in Las Vegas this year. The piece included statistics on the number of killings and the age and gender of the perpetrators. But nowhere did I read it broken down by race. How come?
Eddie Williams
Las Vegas
Memory lapses
The FBI just released the notes pertaining to its interview with Hillary Clinton and her growing email scandal. During that three-hour interview, Mrs. Clinton stated 27 separate times that she could “not recall” or “did not remember” key details and major events while secretary of state.
Among those “lapses” was her failure to remember undergoing a briefing on the handling of classified information, even though she signed a required government document stating she had the briefing and understood the security system. You’d think that if the government had a document specifically designed for that subject which required an individual’s signature under threat of perjury, most people would deem it important enough to at least remember having had the briefing.
Numerous other revelations in those FBI notes (any one of which would be grounds for dismissal or prosecution for a mere mortal) portray Ms. Clinton, as either an out-and-out liar, a total buffoon or on the verge of senility. Take your pick. Yet she proclaims Donald Trump unqualified to have access to the nuclear launch codes.
If elected, can you imagine Hillary getting that infamous “2 a.m. call”? I wonder if she will be able to recall the briefing she would have received concerning the use (of non-use) of our nuclear arsenal.
Sleep well, Hillary supporters.
J.J. Schrader
Henderson
Dangerous delays
I few days ago, I witnessed a car accident and stopped to assist. I dialed 9-1-1 and to my shock I was put on hold. Ten minutes went by with injured people in the vehicles and I was still on hold. Luckily, another bystander had gotten through to them.
If it had been a life-or-death incident, someone may have died waiting. Hire more dispatchers. That was ridiculous.
Sheila Bass
Las Vegas
