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August 03, 2003

MEDICAL CARE IN SAUDI ARABIA

        While the royals fly off to the land of the infidels for care at America's Mayo Clinic or Cornell's Weil Hospital, we now have a glimpse of life in a Saudi hospital. Shirley Ross of Medford Oregon worked as a nurse in Saudi Arabia for 3 years and has published an account. Here's a sample of life in the land of Wahabbi Islam: "...Consider the 8-year-old girl brought in by her father. The girl was suffering from a high fever. "She could hardly walk she was so sick," she recalls. "When I examined her, I found all these infected burn marks on her chest and back. I found out she had been burned with a hot iron by her grandfather, who was trying to cure her high temperature." Her father, who had a university degree from the United States, told an incredulous Ross that he couldn’t go against his father..."

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At some point, all of this has to get the attention of the bien-pensants who spout cultural-equivalence to us at every opportunity. Perhaps it should be shoved down their throats at a few college campuses, before suitably large audiences. College conservatives, take note!

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on August 3, 2003 02:19 PM
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