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My friend Kelly, a Mission Valley prostitute?
no not one bit. just drivel from a stupid girl.— September 23, 2012 5:34 p.m.
My friend Kelly, a Mission Valley prostitute?
please. she is hardly her BFF. she made that abundantally clear by breaking her friendship off with the poor girl just 'cause she went to a party with her where people drank. how insipid. it's a cautionary tale into: how lame and insensitive the Reader and nice girls from Rancho Penasquitos should behave: don't help, just sanctimoniously report trash..— September 23, 2012 5:20 p.m.
My friend Kelly, a Mission Valley prostitute?
totally.— September 23, 2012 5:15 p.m.
My friend Kelly, a Mission Valley prostitute?
Thank you for expressing my sentiment so well.— September 23, 2012 5:12 p.m.
My friend Kelly, a Mission Valley prostitute?
I'm glad to see other readers share my dismayed sentiment. What a putz for a friend! And shame on you, Reader, for even printing this. I'm sorry, how old is this girl? Thirteen? Sounds like it. She has a lot of nerve to write about something she knows nothing about. I understand she is telling her own personal experiences...I get it. But this "friend" did not even once attempt to understand what her friend-turned-prostitue was going through. Her ignorant disdain is so in line with this schmaltzy magazine, the Reader, though. The Reader has stubbornly stuck to allowing even the most medicore and poorly educated writers a forum to show their ill-concieved arrogance. She acts like she tried oh so hard, but just had to give up on Kelly, for her own mental health. Wow. Girl didn't even know what "manic" meant. Knows nothing about how these poor girls get their self-esteem literally beaten out of them by these pimps. Never once through the article, thought about maybe doing just a little research into human trafficking, drug addiction, bi-polar...One commenter said she was, "expoitive." Like it isn't bad enough to be exploited by pimps, now we have the Reader and her ostensible "friend" exploiting her as well. I learned nothing significant from this article 'cept how insensitive middle class suburban beorgious people can be, and how lame the Reader is to publish it.— September 23, 2012 5:11 p.m.
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
I was referring to the piece you wrote. Didn't mean my whole life was a "Kafkaesque Nightmare."— September 14, 2012 8:38 a.m.
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
you know, i can't help but think life is some kinda kafkaesque nightmare. okay, ya think the best way to expose corruption is to enlist the good guys to go after the bad guys only to realize the good guy exposing the bad guys aren't gonna do that 'cause they have bizarre agendas of their own...is life just some labyrinthian joke?— September 13, 2012 6:18 p.m.
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
well, i think you did focus plennnty on doc milgram. or else why would doc milgram so fiercely write you back? and i don't think bringing up past malfeasance very fair either. obvioulsy he got his license back...and, who cares where he went to medical school? he obviously passed his boards...you were just trying to cast aspersions on pro'lly the only decent fellow of the entire bunch. hmmm. doc milgram has a gynecology practice that has been attacked by anti-abortionist before...your boss is seriously pro-life...the reader has a reputation for discriminination against women...been called i believe, an "ol boy network" kinda place to work...hmmm— September 13, 2012 6:04 p.m.
Heart Check and Life Score Clinic didn't work so well
Personally, I worked for Lifescore. According to Haddad, he was the owner. I never even knew Gallagher was a partner until they split up. Gallagher, who I spoke to personally, said he was "the owner on paper" and Haddad had been the "silent one." He stated the reason for the split up was his discovery of Haddad's unseemly past." What he's talking about his Haddad's former Company, the nortorious Heart Check America, a chain of imaging clinics wide spread across America that is now defunct. According to articles in Las Vegas Sun, Colorado New, Chicago Tribune, and consumer site, "Pissed Off.com" Haddad had abruptly closed up shop, leaving thousands of people with no scans and unpaid balances for ten-year contracts of unlimited scanning, costing up to 7000 dollars. If they paid in cash, they were ultimately screwed. If they used Heart Check Americas financing companies, Care Credit (parent company GE) or Chase Medical, they fared better. Care Credit agreed to refund unused balances, while Chase Medical agreed to refund 50% of services rendered as well as cancelling remaining balances. However, Chase had to be sued in a class action suit until they agreed to do so. And both companies continued to send bills and threatening notices for months after the Heart Check Americas' demise. The medical profession is polarized on the issue of scanning the asymptomatic public. Shape, Screening of Heart Attack Prevention recommends that all asyptomatic people in the age range of 45-75 become screened, which would result in the saving 90,000 lives and 21 billion dollars a year. However according to the Harvard School of Public Health false positives run between 80-90%. The US Preventive Task Force says screening asyptomatic people leads to "highly invasive procedurea that could lead to death" Personally, a friend of mine just had a MRI on a bulging disk in his neck only to discover, his carotid artery was 95% blocked and needed a stent put in muy pronto. He'd already complained to his doctors of "difficulty breathing and chest pains" which they had attributed to his COPD, not to a clogged artery. Anyhow, Haddad wasn't an evil guy, he was just a businessman prone to unethical shortcuts. Gallagher is a liar about not knowing about Haddad's past. He only broke it off with Haddad because he wasn't making tons of easy dough. So, he cut Haddad out and re-opened his own clinic slightly changing the name from "Lifescore" to "Lifescore Screening," When he discovered he was making even less money on his own, he abrubtly closed up shop. Hey! He was only follwing in the proverbial footsteps of his mentor, Haddad. Now, all that is left is "Lifescore Clinic" run by Doctor Millgram. Haddad is long gone. Have no idea why Bauder focused so intensely on Milgram in his piece. He wasn't the bad guy. It was the greedy douche bags, Haddad and Gallagher that don't know how to run a business at issue here. I'll vouch for that, under oath.— September 13, 2012 2:57 p.m.
Cirque du Crazy
Hi. I am in recovery right now, and the step I'm on requires one to look at their character defects, which I'm taking seriously. So when I wrote the above review about your piece being "vacuuos," and not "substantive," for some seemingly inexplicable reason, I felt really shitty about it, and thought, "Maybe I should have waited before firing off a harsh missive like that." Also, I talked to my sister who happens to be a writer and she said that basically people are revealing their soul, putting themselves out there and that it can be very traumatizing to writers to have someone so indiscriminately castigate them. So. I went back and started reading more of your pieces, and I just want you to know, that I found some really good ones that I thought were written from a very unique perspective, (yours) about lamentably common everyday issues that I'm sure people may quietly think, but just never verbalize. Like the one on phone communication. That was exceptionally insightful. And the one you wrote about Lexapro...I got a lot out of that as well, and I believe you brought up some very valid points about losing moto, sleeping too much, on and losing your edge while on meds, versus being slightly out-of-control but feeling your feelings and being who you are not on meds. I still maintain the belief that you are a very talented writer...would like to see more substance, but then again you may be catering to a group that don't really want that, after all you are a diva. And, you were funny in the those pieces as well.— May 24, 2012 4:17 p.m.