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Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-14491246217803274632023-12-14T14:19:00.001-05:002023-12-15T19:29:46.869-05:00EXCLUSIVE: TN judge finds potential $10M+ judgement against notorious "snake oil salesman" Carrie Madej in negligence lawsuit brought by family of patient who died a "painful death" from "fatal dose of hydrogen peroxide"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6TQGMkP9VnxmqItChYMM6cOgdF7z7sWvP3H46fsv6ppKC74Kn2dafAI5Dm0HESnOs-SOZE-wvaOGujbSFyD3PLbPfCCqbVOSi009eAqwpmdQGpA1dj5zyWyH1JGPNlq5RvPp_Fsa_zvhC5PwDAS5MIXabUHnxVkRKOXktGKXK2CnZTKlQ3MPHaXsfBQ/s644/Carrie%20Madej%20Twitter%20bio%2012-14-23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="644" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6TQGMkP9VnxmqItChYMM6cOgdF7z7sWvP3H46fsv6ppKC74Kn2dafAI5Dm0HESnOs-SOZE-wvaOGujbSFyD3PLbPfCCqbVOSi009eAqwpmdQGpA1dj5zyWyH1JGPNlq5RvPp_Fsa_zvhC5PwDAS5MIXabUHnxVkRKOXktGKXK2CnZTKlQ3MPHaXsfBQ/w598-h357/Carrie%20Madej%20Twitter%20bio%2012-14-23.png" width="598" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(<a href="https://twitter.com/carrie_madej">source</a>)</div><br />From my April 17, 2023 exclusive, <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2023/04/exclusive-notorious-anti-vax-doctor.html">Notorious anti-vax doctor Carrie Lynn Madej sued by Tennessee couple, father's estate for malpractice, outrageous conduct, negligence</a>:<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Carrie Lynn Madej ("mah-day"), who <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/madej-madness" style="color: #cc0000;">McGill University's Office for Science and Society called "a menace to society,"</a> has been sued for malpractice, outrageous conduct, negligence, and other allegations. </span></p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> lawsuit involves three patients she allegedly treated on December 5, 2021 in Morgan County, Tennessee, about 60 miles west of Knoxville. </span></p></div><div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">One patient </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">died less than three weeks later.</span></p></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">...<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15.4px;">The complaint (<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/43rj8fvmob444gp/2023+Feb+27+Bennun+v.+Madej+complaint.pdf/file" style="color: #cc0000; text-decoration-line: none;">click here to download</a>) was filed February 27 in Tennessee's Ninth Judicial District Circuit Court individually by Jana Sutoova Bennun and her husband Steven Bennun, and on behalf of the estate of Ms</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15.4px;">. Bennun's father, Stefan Suto. </span> </p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7IgH4XQuD-dL7KV-WU35X1aTM1F5WP8TbrLQfshwN4JouceeKoTErIvuh5WBGHYt7oiZAHxFr0ckYh2Vv41Ppu-ohJAJN1vBP4RCUPu4i2e8dVPM1qFWplg03ndeJQ3H9PtTA1JYhmZF_N_AvSx4HQLM69yAJKNxDvByyoRfRlIhiMM-IUHggFVpAUY/s500/Dail%20Cantrell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="500" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7IgH4XQuD-dL7KV-WU35X1aTM1F5WP8TbrLQfshwN4JouceeKoTErIvuh5WBGHYt7oiZAHxFr0ckYh2Vv41Ppu-ohJAJN1vBP4RCUPu4i2e8dVPM1qFWplg03ndeJQ3H9PtTA1JYhmZF_N_AvSx4HQLM69yAJKNxDvByyoRfRlIhiMM-IUHggFVpAUY/s320/Dail%20Cantrell.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dail Cantrell (<a href="https://www.cantrell-law.com/attorneys/dail-r-cantrell">source</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><p>According to plaintiff's attorney Dail Cantrell, yesterday in a Kingston, TN court Judge Mike Pemberton "ruled in our favor."</p>"The court determined that Ms Madej - she is not a doctor as her infomercials claim, she is a snake oil salesman - acted recklessly in injecting Mr. Suto with a fatal dose of hydrogen peroxide which resulted in Mr. Suto”s painful death.<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote>"The Judge has requested some additional medical information in order to determine the amount of punative damages which I expect will exceed 10 million dollars.<br /> <br />"Ms. Madej is mobile fleeing from town to town but our plan is to use the punative damage award to seize the money she is hiding in trusts."<p style="text-align: left;">Mr. Cantrell informed me he'll have court orders in January. I'll post those ASAP.</p>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-21866178239964120422023-06-05T11:29:00.008-04:002023-06-05T14:06:01.709-04:00In observance of National Heimlich Maneuver Day, Long Island doctors' group recommends disemboweling choking victims and other unorthodox treatments<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="604" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8qiJ49Uj9HysXdRIYI5btpQ-0rcsAZrouQ-0QBwgTpdPlfUKdm5T9ScIPI_iPTHPOnw7Ngz_PhXawJ4hNaRlBXgBkXW5Vs6fv1MqXhq8xn83BGzI0KcuppiaPV8T_kSLHgKJzKse3tm9lEMZ6p18UMh8K32wSH2oIIpL9zB6r5jglFTDGB8qRm-s/w517-h420/NCMS%20Twitter%20home.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="517" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MedicalNassau">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="399" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpLyW41bP6gcQqF5fr274JhCXcUZQo9F-P_r9dbPzi_6Y6-yTWyA5HpwEMuk09fRxX9PEPbscgtnLrSmtOhk00nJQ3f_2mEJl3a0gTJKMIiBMx9L0QWNGZFA74fga-8M9727kytoePOb-_6O7TltSFYf0rMWLnelh2Rb4vxBEHuxvrrKmBTlmTJQiS/w516-h516/E.png" width="516" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The poster artist's identity and intent is unknown, but the zombie resembles my father, the late Henry J. Heimlich, MD, pictured here with his cousin once removed, actor Anson Williams, best known for playing the character Potsie on the TV sitcom Happy Days. (Anson is the son of my dad's first cousin, the late Haskell "Hal" Heimlich.")</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CYpXvrgbRrKrEb6GkVwlTSnvBOduCSf87_uQ2s1Hweg0E_LAA9ML4b1fDwdkBzRVW4n6ChTdCMi7fJRL6AxzZBQ2_1V0WdVLmxc6d1s_mrA8GwFAFln95Un1CB2IN8yYejTdyyA0KcobXKQeCHbu0sL-zo_F2XVxLSSNP4Lc428rW9SG-2YB9YMb/s833/ldn-l-mccarthy-heimlich-1027-horiz.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="833" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5CYpXvrgbRrKrEb6GkVwlTSnvBOduCSf87_uQ2s1Hweg0E_LAA9ML4b1fDwdkBzRVW4n6ChTdCMi7fJRL6AxzZBQ2_1V0WdVLmxc6d1s_mrA8GwFAFln95Un1CB2IN8yYejTdyyA0KcobXKQeCHbu0sL-zo_F2XVxLSSNP4Lc428rW9SG-2YB9YMb/w566-h373/ldn-l-mccarthy-heimlich-1027-horiz.webp" width="566" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.dailynews.com/2017/10/26/dennis-mccarthy-years-after-happy-days-the-guy-who-played-potsie-wants-to-save-lives-heres-how/">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-58782483357178265472023-04-17T07:33:00.012-04:002023-06-01T10:29:20.531-04:00EXCLUSIVE: Notorious anti-vax doctor Carrie Lynn Madej sued by Tennessee couple, father's estate for malpractice, outrageous conduct, negligence (UPDATE: Dr. Madej failed to plead/respond; Defendants file for default judgment)<div>UPDATE: According to the following May 9, 2023 court filing, after being served on March 27, Carrie Lynn Madej MD has "failed to plead or otherwise defend" against the lawsuit brought against her for allegedly administering "an intravenous injection of 500 mL of D5NS with 21 mL of 3% hydrogen peroxide" to three patients in Morgan County, TN, one of whom died a few weeks later.<br /><br />As a result, the defendants have asked the court for a default judgment in their favor.</div><div><br /></div><div>Per my original item (page down), Dr. Madej apparently considers herself a so-called "sovereign citizen." According to <a href="The FBI considers sovereign-citizen extremists as comprising a domestic terrorist movement, which, scattered across the United States, has existed for decades, with well-known members, such as Terry Nichols, who helped plan the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing. Sovereign citizens do not represent an anarchist group, nor are they a militia, although they sometimes use or buy illegal weapons. Rather, they operate as individuals without established leadership and only come together in loosely affiliated groups to train, help each other with paperwork, or socialize and talk about their ideology.">this 2011 statement</a>:</div><div><blockquote>The FBI considers sovereign-citizen extremists as comprising a domestic terrorist movement, which, scattered across the United States, has existed for decades, with well-known members, such as Terry Nichols, who helped plan the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing. Sovereign citizens do not represent an anarchist group, nor are they a militia, although they sometimes use or buy illegal weapons. Rather, they operate as individuals without established leadership and only come together in loosely affiliated groups to train, help each other with paperwork, or socialize and talk about their ideology. </blockquote><blockquote><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/649908722/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-rEW99H4MyFNIw7fwlJao" tabindex="0" title="Bennun et al v. Carrie Lynn Madej, Defendant's Motion for Default Judgment (5/9/23)" width="100%"></iframe></blockquote><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">#####</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLSlgZO0eGmhCtYUR6Mc5qGMAff9_GAGkT5kzvBPZFZOhKiSvCndKmAyUyTkzymYS_tddSVO_pVKh9duB4QIZxXBTXAluVW9YL0bt6DthhcUJ7wxjiUTY8_eT-5-2DNmpAWH_olCZ6VoaFl6FgVoqPT86pjokNuX1DdhHPLPx2IEazXle4nhk8HL-/s510/Madej%20and%20process%20server.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="500" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcLSlgZO0eGmhCtYUR6Mc5qGMAff9_GAGkT5kzvBPZFZOhKiSvCndKmAyUyTkzymYS_tddSVO_pVKh9duB4QIZxXBTXAluVW9YL0bt6DthhcUJ7wxjiUTY8_eT-5-2DNmpAWH_olCZ6VoaFl6FgVoqPT86pjokNuX1DdhHPLPx2IEazXle4nhk8HL-/w384-h508/Madej%20and%20process%20server.png" width="384" /></span></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Dr. Carrie Madej (right) immediately before she received service of process (page down or <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/3i8sfiav6wxfr00/March+2023+Process+Serve+Report+CMadej+by+Gravitas+Investigations.pdf/file">click here to download</a>) for the lawsuit filed by the Bennuns. Madej was served on March 24 at the House of Restoration Worship Church in Milford, Ohio, where <a href="https://coachdavelive.com/event/kentucky-huddle-medical-legal-truth">she was appearing at a so-called "Medical & Legal Truth" event</a> hosted by the Salt and Light Brigade which<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5bm8x/were-having-a-coup-this-religious-right-brigade-filmed-itself-during-the-capitol-riots"> according to Vice.com</a>, is "a far-right group that aims to wage 'spiritual warfare' on behalf of Pass the Salt Ministries, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has previously <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/states/ohio">identified as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group</a>."</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Dr. Carrie Lynn Madej ("mah-day"), who <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/madej-madness">McGill University's Office for Science and Society called "a menace to society,"</a> has been sued for malpractice, outrageous conduct, </span>negligence, and other allegations. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> lawsuit involves three patients she allegedly treated on December 5, 2021 in Morgan County, Tennessee, about 60 miles west of Knoxville. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">One patient </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">died less than three weeks later.</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/covid-vaccine-mandates-push-holdouts-get-shot-detox-rcna4859">a November 12, 2021 NBC News report by Ben Collins</a>:<br /><blockquote>(Dr. Madej) is an osteopathic internal medicine doctor who has propagated a variety of debunked theories about the Covid vaccines and posted to Twitter about a variety of other conspiracy theories,<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88avy5/a-qanon-doctor-who-spoke-at-the-capitol-riots-said-the-covid-vaccine-is-a-witches-brew"> including QAnon</a>. She describes herself as “practicing the truth in Jesus through medicine.”</blockquote></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p style="text-align: left;">...(O<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">n) a podcast called “Reawaken America” she falsely claimed there is a “liquified computing system” inside coronavirus vaccines. She has also claimed the vaccines are a “gateway to transhumanism.” Her theories have been broadly</span><a data-activity-map="article-content-link-17" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-coronavirus-vaccine/fact-check-unidentified-particles-in-vaccine-samples-under-the-microscope-are-likely-contamination-idUSL1N2RT1IG" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> fact-checked</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;"> as false, including earning a</span><a data-activity-map="article-content-link-18" href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/oct/21/carrie-madej/transhumanism-nanotechnology-covid-19-vaccine-cons/" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;"> “Pants on Fire” rating from Politifact</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a;">.</span></p></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The complaint (page down or <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/43rj8fvmob444gp/2023+Feb+27+Bennun+v.+Madej+complaint.pdf/file">click here to download</a>) was filed February 27 in Tennessee's Ninth Judicial District Circuit Court individually by Jana Sutoova Bennun and her husband Steven Bennun, and on behalf of the estate of Ms</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. Bennun's father, Stefan Suto. </span></p></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the complaint:</span></p><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">2. On or about December 5th, 2021, Mr. Stefan Suto was located at his home in Morgan County, Tennessee. He was feeling ill and had a fever. Steven Bennun and Jana Sutoova Bennun were ill with no fever.</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;">3. On or about December 5th, 2021, Carrie Madej insisted that she come to the house and administer treatment.<br /> <br />4. On or about December 5th, 2021, Carrie Madej entered the residence and directly administered treatment without any medical history, medical treatment, laboratory results, and failed to take a medical history on any patient.</span><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />5. On or about December 5th, 2021, Carrie Madej directly administered to Stefan Suto a solution of 21 mL of 3% hydrogen peroxide and 0.5 mL of distilled water that was placed in a nebulizer to create an inhalable mist.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />6. On or about December 5th, 2021, Carrie Madej directly administered to Stefan Suto, Steve Bennun, and Jana Sutoova Bennun an intravenous injection of 500 mL of D5NS<span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: courier;">with 21 mL of 3% hydrogen peroxide.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br />7. Immediately after treatment, Mr. Stefan Suto started to react adversely and experienced a rapid decline in health.<br /><br />8. Steven Bennun and Jana Sutoova Bennun informed Carrie Madej that Stefan Suto's health was rapidly declining and requested further medical treatment. Carrie Madej refused.<br /><br />9. Stefan Suto passed away on December 23, 2021. Steven Bennun and Jana Sutoova Bennun continue to suffer from the side effects of the harmful injections they received on December 5, 2021.<br /><br />10. Plaintiffs would aver that Carrie Madej does not have a Tennessee medical license and yet practices medicine in the State of Tennessee.<br /><br />11. Plaintiffs would aver that the Defendant failed to provide them with basic, appropriate, and necessary medical care and supervision.<br /><br />12. Plaintiffs would aver that through the Defendant's actions, she significantly deviated from the accepted standard of care for healthcare professionals practicing within their respective specialties within the Morgan County community as it relates to the care provided to them.<br /><br />13. Plaintiffs would further aver that the Defendant is guilty of the specific torts of negligence; outrageous conduct; and negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress.</span></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: courier;">14. The Plaintiffs would further aver that the Defendant violated the medical malpractice laws of the State of Tennessee codified at T. C. A. 29-26-101, et seq., as evidence by the Affidavit of Sal A.D.'Allura, D.O., attached as Exhibit "A".</span><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A search for medical licenses associated with Dr. Madej on</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><a href="https://apps.health.tn.gov/Licensure/default.aspx" style="font-family: georgia;">the Tennessee Department of Health's website</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">produced no results.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1621970354238267394?lang=en" style="font-family: georgia;">In an exclusive</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">, I reported that on January 6 Dr. Madej had surrendered her Georgia medical license. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">According to a November 22, 2022 document attached to the complaint, the Bennuns' attorney, <a href="https://cantrell-law.com/dail-r-cantrell.html">Dale R. Cantrell of Clinton, TN</a>, sent a legal notifcation to Dr. Madej at ten different Georgia addresses with which she has been associated in Canton, Forest Park, McDonough, Symrna (two different addresses), Peachtree City, Atlanta (two different addresses), Jonesboro, and Locust Grove.</span></div></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He received the following reponse (page down for the original letter or <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/sw0rtoe37xjr29n/2023+Jan+10+CarrieLynnBeneficiary-DCantrell.pdf/file">click here to download</a>) which appears to be related to claims she made at timestamp 7:00 in a rambling podcast interview last month, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/katedalleyradio/032123-carrie-madej-on-being-a-sovereign-citizen">Carrie Madej On Being A Sovereign Citizen</a>:</span><div><span><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></div><blockquote><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Carrie Lynn of the house and lineage of Madej</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Daughter of the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob American Freewoman</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Grantor in Original Jurisdiction and Beneficiary of the resultant Trust</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Near Post Office Box 1234 Senoia Georgia America Republic</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Everything is Trust and there is nothing that is not Trust</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>No Trust can fail for want of a Trustee</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The primary responsibility of the Trustee is to protect the Trust</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">January 10 2023</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Cantrell Law Office</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Post Office Box 299</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Clinton Tennessee 37716</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Dail R. Cantrell,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I Carrie Lynn Beneficiary am responding to your letter dated November eleventh twenty-twenty-two.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Please make note that this is your one time courtesy notice to inform you that any further correspondence regarding the matter of concern as mentioned in your letter, must be forwarded to Matthew Norman MD Chairperson of Georgia Composite Medical Board Indentured Trustee who has accepted and retained custody of the legal person, the Doctor, of whom your letter is addressing. You may contact the Doctor and the Chairperson of the Board Indentured Trustee at</span></div></blockquote></span></span></div></div></div><div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><blockquote>Georgia Composite Medical Board<br />2 Peachtree Street Northwest 36th Floor<br />Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3465</blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote><span><span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Any further communication, correspondence or actions taken against the Beneficiary will be an obvious mistaken identity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Thank you</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>CarrieLynnBeneficiary</i></span></div></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>The Bennuns are seeking a jury trial, $10,000,000 as compensatory damages, and up to $5,000,000 as punitive damages.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's not known if Dr. Madej has retained legal counsel.</div></span></div><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></span></div>
<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/638662173/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-6zyvgTy5JjRIJMDSIMq0" tabindex="0" title="Bennun v. Carrie Lynn Madej, Complaint & Jury Demand, filed 2/27/23, TN Ninth Judicial District Circuit Court" width="100%"></iframe><p style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px;"><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.821330902461258" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/638663281/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-qrHq1cWsHeG25ORcubJb" tabindex="0" title="Bennun v. Carrie Lynn Madej, Process Serve Report by Gravitas Investigations (Kings Mills, OH), March 2023" width="100%"></iframe> <iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/638664602/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-uh1jkNtzpVDB0uT2KjCa" tabindex="0" title="1/10/23 letter from "Carrie Lynn Beneficiary" (presumably Dr. Carrie Lynn Madej) to TN attorney Dail R. Cantrell" width="100%"></iframe></p></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-56194082914662251472023-04-10T11:08:00.000-04:002023-04-10T11:08:00.070-04:00President George W. Bush's son-in-law saved the life of a choking victim! Or did he? No one's talking<p>From <span style="background-color: white; color: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--color); font-family: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--font-family); font-size: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--font-size); font-weight: var(--article-hero-headline--htag--font-weight);"><a href="https://www.today.com/popculture/jenna-bush-hager-reveals-husband-henry-saved-womans-life-choking-resta-rcna74188">Jenna Bush Hager reveals husband Henry saved woman’s life while choking at restaurant: ‘My hero’ </a>by Lindsay Lowe, Today.com, March 9, 2023:</span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vDkmPJzmtTY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div><br /></div><blockquote>Jenna Bush Hager is calling her husband a “hero” after he jumped into action to save a woman’s life.<br /><br />The incident occurred Wednesday night when Jenna and her husband, Henry (Hager), were having a quiet dinner at a restaurant with Henry’s mom.<br /><br />Jenna said she was sitting with her back to the restaurant, while Henry sat facing outward.<br /><br />“All of a sudden, he says, ‘That woman is choking!’” Jenna said. “He gets up, he runs over, and he gives a woman the Heimlich maneuver for, it felt like it was 10 minutes.”<br /><br />Jenna said some other people came over to help as Henry continued to try to save the woman.<br /><br />“He continued, and other men were helping him, and I could tell he thought it wasn’t working, and he was saying, ‘Guys, keep going, keep going, keep going!’” Jenna said. “And she survived. 911 arrived.”</blockquote><p>For the past month I've tried to verify Ms. Hager's story by sending a couple dozen emails and leaving messages for various parties: Mr. Hager, senior producers at the Today Show, NBC's head of publicity; and the George W. Bush Presidential Center.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCghlxuY-Cy5ismLE75D_3y1oOelmALmEcR_pogYTYzEC7Qbhsdpw9A8EqU2T2plNdmywKb_duDQFHLYFpWeZ3Bai-1iurizXksBCrpRVNWOoqdEzQw-WhYw1tjyRn58LVWoQBSdf3MuOhFv0vSqijOKfTBXFoafgZwOmLffX4f7UDzQkzFMQWMOTE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="279" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhCghlxuY-Cy5ismLE75D_3y1oOelmALmEcR_pogYTYzEC7Qbhsdpw9A8EqU2T2plNdmywKb_duDQFHLYFpWeZ3Bai-1iurizXksBCrpRVNWOoqdEzQw-WhYw1tjyRn58LVWoQBSdf3MuOhFv0vSqijOKfTBXFoafgZwOmLffX4f7UDzQkzFMQWMOTE" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Henry C. Hager </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bushcenter.org/people/henry-c-hager">George W. Bush Presidential Center</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>I simply asked for basic facts: the name and address of the restaurant; the date of the alleged incident; whether the Hagers knew the name of the alleged choking victim; whether they took selfies with anyone at the scene; and if they knew the name of the EMS crew that arrived.<p></p><p>The result was deafening silence - including from Ms. Lowe, the writer who bylined the Today.com item. (Page down for the unanswered DMs I sent her.)</p><p>The only response came from Andrew Kaufman, Director of Communications and Marketing at the Bush Center: </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Unfortunately, the best way to reach the Hagers are the methods you used – my powers are limited there.</blockquote><p>Did the incident really happen? If not, it wouldn't be the first time a celebrity may have fabricated a dramatic choking rescue. </p><p>For example, in 2012 here's what country star Luke Bryan told People Magazine:</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">I had a friend do the Heimlich on me last Monday in a pizza restaurant. It was pretty freaky there for about 30 seconds. A piece of flatbread pizza flaked off and got lodged in my airway, and I went down. He picked me up and got it out of there!</p></blockquote><p>As Sidebar readers know, <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2015/02/before-lyin-brian-williams-was-outed-i.html">I reported a string of stories</a> about my unsuccessul efforts to verify his claim.</p><p>The Bryana and Hager stories story raise an interesting point.</p><p>When a celebrity makes a dramatic, newsworthy claim on national television, do they have a responsibility to back it up?</p><p>As you might guess, I think they do. </p><p>But I don't have the clout to compel powerful, connected people to respond to my questions. </p><p>If someone out there does have the requisite swat and the Hagers (or Bryan, for that matter) provide the information I requested, I'll update this item with gratitude and without hesitation.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqbfpRdC8CSsMP383jwZ5Keq5GS9RuyMKIExtCA7kIJrXbiS7Ux3xJB2ktpVVJeJxKH13ATiIGNDz56z8RwaiTtPY43Fm7ePIc9vZozeQ44LN2KBxLqJT7bcc4OrwBMhIgdXMOA203Y9_VLaEvn1GGC7qnfnIquURES0arm9vn7BdqIUQoLXYaxvR_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2032" data-original-width="571" height="2142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqbfpRdC8CSsMP383jwZ5Keq5GS9RuyMKIExtCA7kIJrXbiS7Ux3xJB2ktpVVJeJxKH13ATiIGNDz56z8RwaiTtPY43Fm7ePIc9vZozeQ44LN2KBxLqJT7bcc4OrwBMhIgdXMOA203Y9_VLaEvn1GGC7qnfnIquURES0arm9vn7BdqIUQoLXYaxvR_=w597-h2142" width="597" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-18683108092387241942023-01-18T09:40:00.007-05:002023-01-18T09:43:16.912-05:00Keto influencer James "Jimmy" Moore sentenced to 20 years for three-month sexual abuse of a thirteen year old girl<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHOWT4bKOfZ53pLWxJMFmDAnNOptO865RlGX2re9NqE4THp5eG6Q53knDm8a66exJgSRinRvqirLlPpQQPGpbbbGMeHhpcMqav_RC08YqFvOcCFG7IRGoeSmZvOu4ddNgB4pcqAR7W9v45A0WP2eBRWV_ReTzu5mLAVhrrHJk4RJibkl-ZDjKLwYXw/s600/2023%20Jan%2013%20Henrico%20County%20Sheriff%20jail%20photo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHOWT4bKOfZ53pLWxJMFmDAnNOptO865RlGX2re9NqE4THp5eG6Q53knDm8a66exJgSRinRvqirLlPpQQPGpbbbGMeHhpcMqav_RC08YqFvOcCFG7IRGoeSmZvOu4ddNgB4pcqAR7W9v45A0WP2eBRWV_ReTzu5mLAVhrrHJk4RJibkl-ZDjKLwYXw/s320/2023%20Jan%2013%20Henrico%20County%20Sheriff%20jail%20photo.png" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">James William Moore (<a href="http://www.henricosheriff.org/search/mobileDetail.aspx?id=000494117">source</a>)</div><br /><div>Last month I blogged <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2022/12/authorpodcasterblogger-jimmy-livin-la.html">Author/podcaster/blogger Jimmy "Livin' La Vida Low Carb" Moore pleads guilty to multiple child sexual abuse charges</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Moore lived in <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Spartanburg, SC and was charged in Henrico County, VA.</span></div><br />Here's a statement I received this morning from attorney Cynthia R. Micklem who prosecuted Moore on behalf of <a href="https://henrico.us/com-atty/about-us/staff-list/">the office of the Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney</a>.<div></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;">James Moore was sentenced to an active sentence of 20 years for carnal knowledge on January 13, 2023. Evidence showed that from September through December of 2019, Moore started a sexual relationship with a thirteen year old. She was the daughter of people he had met in his role as a “social media influencer.” The sexual abuse began on a joint family vacation with Moore and his wife and the victim’s family. After that vacation, Moore would drive from his home in South Carolina to wait outside the home of the victim. On multiple occasions, he would encourage the victim to sneak out of the house after her parents were asleep. Moore would engage in sexual acts with the 13 year old in his vehicle and eventually began taking her to a hotel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Law enforcement obtained records of Moore’s conversations with the juvenile victim. The records onfirmed the sexual abuse describing vaginal intercourse and sodomy. Among the sexually explicit messages to the victim, the messages also showed Moore manipulating the victim. Moore would repeatedly tell the victim that he was the only person in her life that cared for her. He would criticize her parents and other relationships creating distance between the victim and her family.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During sentencing, the Henrico County Circuit Court described Moore as being two people: one who is the well-educated community member who everyone sees as a good guy and second as someone who would describe “f- the brains out” of a thirteen-fourteen year old child. Someone who when the victim states she is feeling suicidal tells her “to get over it.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The judge sentenced James Moore to an active sentence of 20 years.</div></blockquote>In response to my request, Moore's attorney - <a href="https://www.martindale.com/attorney/aubrey-russell-bowles-iv-1747349/">Aubrey Russell Bowles, IV of Richmond</a> - chose not to comment.<div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-61735999962718728072022-12-08T09:01:00.004-05:002022-12-08T09:09:09.927-05:00Author/podcaster/blogger Jimmy "Livin' La Vida Low Carb" Moore pleads guilty to multiple child sexual abuse charges<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSF66A1nVTqRzbxJ_75pAxYuc_ccE0hQzvEFLQZeznjm-MjEn1PmgbNWnugQBxYLyPYCWGviytwquLBWkAWu8BNq-SltW6NtCyJFmjJa8ATlsckL6GA3ZPLZ4DGIkLdbwxdVof98FCRNWDrBxC8x1hUBOBjsn8N6wkDkc6G5aEKIlIthgpGtIetW4/s599/2022%20June%201%20JMoore%20booking%20photo.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="479" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMSF66A1nVTqRzbxJ_75pAxYuc_ccE0hQzvEFLQZeznjm-MjEn1PmgbNWnugQBxYLyPYCWGviytwquLBWkAWu8BNq-SltW6NtCyJFmjJa8ATlsckL6GA3ZPLZ4DGIkLdbwxdVof98FCRNWDrBxC8x1hUBOBjsn8N6wkDkc6G5aEKIlIthgpGtIetW4/s320/2022%20June%201%20JMoore%20booking%20photo.png" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>June 1, 2022 booking photo of James William ["Jimmy"] Moore (Henrico County Sheriff's office) </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>In a shocking turn of events, Jimmy Moore - a prominent Spartanburg, SC-based popularizer of the low carb, high fat diet - is facing multiple counts of child sexual abuse next month in Henrico County, Virginia.</p><p>From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Moore/e/B002BMKYOW/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">Moore's author's page</a> on Amazon:</p><blockquote>My name is Jimmy Moore and I'm the dude behind the wildly popular online health blog and podcast called "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb." On January 1, 2004, I was a morbidly obese 410-pound man on a one-way ticket to an early grave who decided to take back control of my own health thanks to the Atkins diet by going on to lose 180 pounds that year coming off of three prescription medications. Although it wasn't an easy road, I am grateful I found the healthy low-carb lifestyle because it gave me my health and life back again.<br /><br />As 2005 rolled around and people began to take notice of my very noticeable weight loss, they wanted to know how I did it. After probably telling my Atkins low-carb weight loss success story at least a bazillion times, I finally said I would create a blog to talk about it--and so I did in April 2005. Today, the "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb" blog boasts 250,000 monthly readers and counting. In 2006, I became the host of one of the biggest layperson-led nutritional health podcasts on iTunes called "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show" featuring interviews with all the top experts in the world of diet, fitness and health. That podcast airs Tuesdays-Wednesdays has 1400+ episodes and continues to attract new listeners in droves. I have three other podcasts--Nutritional Pearls Podcast, Keto Talk, and The KetoHacking MD Podcast--you might want to check out as well!<br /><br />I'm the international bestselling author of Keto Clarity, The Ketogenic Cookbook, The Complete Guide To Fasting, Cholesterol Clarity, The Keto Cure, and Real Food Keto. Yes, I'm a busy writer! But I love every minute of it! These days I am super-passionate about helping empower people just like you to be in charge of your own health decisions and to stop abdicating that role to the so-called health experts who may or may not be giving you good advice. Educate yourself and be the boss of your own body and health. You can find out more about what all is happening with me at LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com [<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com">via the Wayback Machine</a>]. Feel free to e-mail me anytime at <a href="mailto:livinlowcarbman@charter.net">livinlowcarbman@charter.net</a>. THANK YOU again for being here and I look forward to getting to know you and helping you become that happy, healthy, and fit person you were always meant to be.</blockquote><div>Moore's co-authors include prominent nutrition science professionals like nephrologist <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PLL6VGN/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0">Jason Fung MD</a>, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PLKZJWX/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1">Eric C. Westman MD</a> of Duke University, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Cure-Dietary-Solution-Optimize/dp/1628601299/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670465588&sr=1-1">Adam S. Nally DO</a> aka <a href="https://www.docmuscles.com/about/">"Doc Muscles,"</a> and nutritionist <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PLNJR7B/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p2_i0">Maria Emmerich</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>Some of their books and a number of books Moore wrote himself <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Moore/e/B002BMKYOW/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1">have been translated into multiple languages</a>.</div><div><div><br /></div>And for over a decade, Moore organized and hosted an annual "Low-Carb Cruise" <a href="https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/324601605/the-livin-la-vida-low-carb-show-with-jimmy-moore/jimmy-christine-moore-on-leaving-the-keto-community-on-the-2019-low-carb-cruise">that's been called</a> "the preeminent event for the low-carb community" with "guest speakers who are the leading voices for carbohydrate restriction and ketogenic diets."<div><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div>Based on <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/612969681/10-19-22-Conviction-Order-Commonwealth-of-VA-vs-James-Jimmy-Moore-Cases-Nos-CR22-1293-through-1299-00F">this October 19, 2022 Conviction Order</a> signed by Henrico County Circuit Court Judge Rondelle D. Herman, Moore's days as a nutrition influencer and high seas host may be coming to an end:</div><div><p></p><blockquote><p>On October 4, 2022, carne Cynthia Micklem, the attorney for the Commonwealth, and James Moore, born December 27, 1971, who stands indicted for seven (7) felonies, to-wit: carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger-than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: vaginal intercourse (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1296, 1298-00F; carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: fellatio (Virginia Code Section 18.263), as charged.in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1294-00F; carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: cunnilingus (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1295-00F; and carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: sodomy (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1297, 1299-00F, appeared according to the conditions of his bond, and carne also A. Russell Bowles, IV, his attorney heretofore retained, pursuant to the Court's Order entered August 11, 2022.</p><p>Whereupon the accused was arraigned in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1294, 1296, 1297, 1298-00F and after private consultation with and being advised by his said counsel, pleaded guilty to each Indictment, which pleas were tendered by the accused in person. And the Court, having made inquiry and being of the opinion that the accused fully understood the nature and effect of his pleas and of' the penalties that may be imposed upon his conviction and of the waiver of trial by jury and of appeal, finding that the pleas were voluntarily and intelligently entered, proceeded to hear and determine these cases without the intervention of a jury as provided by law.</p><p>After hearing and considering all of the evidence and the argument of counsel, the Court finds the accused guilty of carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: vaginal intercourse (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in each Indictment in Case Nos. CR22-1293, 1296, 1298-00F; carnal knowledge of a child, thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: fellatio (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1294-00F; and carnal knowledge of a child thirteen (13) years of age or older but younger than fifteen (15) years of age, to-wit: sodomy (Virginia Code Section 18.2-63), as charged in the Indictment in Case No. CR22-1297-00F.</p><p>The Court, on motion of the accused by counsel, before fixing punishment or imposing sentence, directs the Probation Officer of this Court to thoroughly evaluate the accused and to investigate and report to the Court as provided by law on the 6th day of January, 2023, and a two (2) hour sentencing is set for the 13th day of January, 2023, at 11:00 o'clock a.m., to which time these cases are continued.</p><p>The Court, for the reasons stated to the record, hereby revokes the accused's bond this said day.</p><p>On motion of the attorney for the accused, and for the reasons stated to the record, the Court reconsiders the revocation of the accused's bond, allows the accused's bond to continue, and orders that the accused shall be in strict compliance with all conditions of bond and that he shall have no violations, no matter how minor.</p><p>The Court orders that the accused shall continue to be monitored by the Henrico County Community Corrections Program under the same terms and conditions as previously imposed, and that he continue to comply with GPS monitoring.</p></blockquote><p><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7735849056603774" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/612969681/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-K4WeYw2cCiypycbR8Gpf" tabindex="0" title="10/19/22 Conviction Order, Commonwealth of VA vs. James "Jimmy" Moore, Cases Nos. CR22-1293 through 1299-00F" width="100%"></iframe></p></div><p style="-x-system-font: none; display: block; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px;"></p></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-21769427505554365582022-09-14T13:56:00.001-04:002022-09-14T14:13:53.883-04:00In 2010 the IL Attorney General launched an investigation into $10M in state & federal tax dollars misappropriated by the tainted, politically-connected Save-A-Life Foundation - 12 years on, the investigation's still open, so I've asked current AG Kwame Raoul to investigateSeptember 14, 2022 <br /><br />The Hon. Kwame Raoul <br />Illinois Attorney General <br />500 South Second Street <br />Springfield, IL 62701 <br /><br />Dear Mr. Raoul:<br /><br />I'm writing regarding your office's 12+ year investigation of a tainted nonprofit, the Chicago-area Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF). SALF, which from 2006-2020 has been the subject of <a href="http://medfraud.info/SALF-media.html">dozens of media exposes</a>, was <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/390663998/Save-A-Life-Foundation-SALF-Articles-of-Dissolution-signed-by-Carol-J-Spizzirri-filed-9-17-09-with-the-IL-Secretary-of-State-s-Department-of-Busin">dissolved as an Illinois corporation in 2009</a>.<br /><br />SALF was <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/593496777/All-IL-corporate-filings-by-the-Save-A-Life-Foundation-SALF-including-9-17-09-dissolution-1993-2009">founded in 1993</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1335350298378964995">the late Carol Jean Spizzirri</a>, a <a href="https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/17/city-light-save-a-life-money/">convicted shoplifter and child batterer, according to an order of protection filed in 1992 by her daughter</a>, Christina Jean Pratt. To perpetrate the SALF scam, Spizzirri <a href="https://vimeo.com/1601287?embedded=true&source=video_title&owner=698349">falsely claimed to be a registered nurse and relentlessly promoted a fabricated backstory about Christina's tragic 1993 death</a>.<br /><br />SALF reportedly received over $10 million in tax dollars and what I estimate to be tens of thousands of dollars in private grants. Based on media reports and my estimates, about $7 million came from Illinois state taxpayers (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150421025337/http://www.illinoishomepage.net/story/you-paid-for-it-wheres-the-money/d/story/HShxyfsiTUWxCu4iKj_M5A">including $200,000 to buy an office building in Springfield</a>) and over <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/2-investigates-cdc-gave-millions-tax-dollars-non-p/33417343/">$3 million came from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</a>, the first million of which <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/593760174/US-Sen-Dick-Durbin-asks-Sen-Arlen-Specter-to-approve-1-million-funding-for-the-Save-A-Life-Foundation-SALF-March-31-1999">was arranged by U.S. Senator Dick Durbin in 1999</a>.<br /><br />To obtain the funding, SALF claimed the money would be used to provide training in CPR and the Heimlich maneuver to students in Illinois schools. <br /><br />In 2009, <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2009-10-11-0910100171-story.html">Spizzirri told the Chicago Tribune</a> her organization trained about two million students in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS), then-headed by future U.S. Secretary of Education <a href="https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/17/city-light-save-a-life-money/">Arne Duncan who called Spizzirri “one of my heroes.”</a> As <a href="http://medfraud.info/SALF-Duncan-RMHC.html">documented on my web site</a>, Duncan personally arranged a $174,000 contract for SALF to provide first aid training classes for 18,000 CPS students from 2004-06. <br /><br />However, in response to my FOIA requests, <a href="http://medfraud.info/SALF-Duncan-RMHC.html">CPS failed to produce a single training record.</a> Further, in 2003 your agency awarded $25,000 to SALF to provide first aid training to students in these schools:<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Salem School District #111 (Marion County)<br />South Central Community Unit School District #401 (Kinmundy, Marion County)<br /> Camp Point CU School District #3<br /> Beardstown CU School District #15<br /> Rantoul City School District #137 (Champaign County)<br /> Cass County School Districts (Cass County)<br /> Edwardsville CU School District #7<br />Greenview CU School District #200 </blockquote><br />Per <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/106021152/Sen-Tim-Bivins-s-correspondence-with-the-IL-Attorney-General-re-investigation-of-the-Save-A-Life-Foundation-SALF-and-questions-re-25-000-grant-t">IL Senator Tim Bivins' 2012 emails to then-IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan</a> (which include thorough documentation), none of the eight schools had records of any training. <br /><br />In <a href="https://www.mystateline.com/news/eyewitness-news-investigation-portrait-of-a-con/139756637/">a 2015 interview</a>, Senator Bivens said, "(SALF) claimed they had trained thousands and thousands of children...We can't substantiate that all of these children were trained." <br /><br />As you may know, in approximately June 2010, your office initiated an investigation into SALF. According to <a href="https://news.wsiu.org/2010-09-29/the-state-investigates-the-save-a-life-foundation">a 2010 IL Public Radio report</a>, "The Illinois Attorney General's office confirms it is reviewing how the funds were used, as is done whenever a charitable organization disbands." <br /><br />To learn the outcome of the investigation, every six months or so, I file FOIA requests with your agency, asking for related records. <br /><br />In <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/594150848/8-15-22-FOIA-response-from-IL-Attorney-General-re-their-Save-A-Life-Foundation-investigation-This-office-has-reviewed-its-records-and-we-determi">an August 15, 2022 response to my most recent FOIA request</a>, Assistant Attorney General Mark Rogina wrote: "(This office has reviewed) its records, and we determined that approximately 10,000 pages of records are maintained only in physical, hard copy form." <br /><br />Based on the volume of documents, he suggested I narrow my request. I did so, resubmitted it, and received <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/594151720/8-22-22-FOIA-Response-from-IL-Attorney-General-confirming-their-investigation-of-the-Save-A-Life-Foundation-investigation-is-ongoing">this August 22, 2022 response from Mr. Rogina</a>: <br /><br /> Please be advised that because this investigation remains ongoing, we have no records responsive to your request. <br /><br />It's unclear why it's taking your office over 12 years to investigate a long-defunct, thoroughly-discredited organization. Still, I hope you agree that the public is entitled to learn what happened to the millions of misappropriated tax dollars. <br /><br />With that hope in mind, this is to respectfully request that you initiate a review to determine if the investigation of SALF has been conducted properly. <br /><br />This is also to respectfully request that you provide me with the name of the staff member leading the SALF investigation and an approximate date when the investigation will be completed. I appreciate your consideration and I look forward to your reply. <br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Peter M. Heimlich<br />Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USAphone/text: (678)322-7984 <br />email: <a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a> <br />website: <a href="http://medfraud.info/">http://medfraud.info</a> <br />blog: <a href="http://the-sidebar.com/">http://the-sidebar.com</a> <br />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh">https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh</a> <br />bio: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-69498883269538811732022-04-13T16:26:00.025-04:002022-06-15T17:21:09.906-04:00Fox TV's streaming service, Fox Nation, is offering a non-existent "free trial" subscription - I've filed complaints with the FTC & my state's Consumer Protection Division (UPDATE: NYs ATG is pursuing my complaint)6/14/22 UPDATE:<div> <iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/578449529/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-xu7M9nneCTPawkW1JlrF" tabindex="0" title="NYS Attorney General is pursuing my fraud complaint against Fox Nation (6/14/22)" width="125%"></iframe><p>5/20/22 UPDATE:</p> <iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="false" frameborder="0" height="800" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/575099717/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-jwmIDm9S0lTdx4lnkcf8" tabindex="0" title="GA Law Dept. refers my consumer fraud complaint against Fox Nation to NY Attorney General (5/19/22)" width="600"></iframe><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><h4 style="text-align: center;">#####</h4><p>Today I unexpectedly stumbled onto this in the course of reporting a story about Fox News.</p><p>From <a href="https://nation.foxnews.com/">the home page of Fox Nation</a>:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE7YHIDtQ7lBNuZ1nBAPQUW30Nisa21j1lKjvbBYoxC37qvOGOCoE55zUeCWXVLUfrrbSImSYvOVNZZVA2dyUnGYdbuKRO1-vn1PN8QZbeAgGr8HUyPT89P4GaVN1oZuMOrWEud1wpz5Do7aQoELdnxi0V5VW9iAuVUWkCDjhUbTYqSYK12r3jjQcr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="341" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiE7YHIDtQ7lBNuZ1nBAPQUW30Nisa21j1lKjvbBYoxC37qvOGOCoE55zUeCWXVLUfrrbSImSYvOVNZZVA2dyUnGYdbuKRO1-vn1PN8QZbeAgGr8HUyPT89P4GaVN1oZuMOrWEud1wpz5Do7aQoELdnxi0V5VW9iAuVUWkCDjhUbTYqSYK12r3jjQcr" width="281" /></a></div><br />See that "Start Your Free Trial" balloon? Stick in pin in it.<p></p><p>Here's a screenshot of <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22fox+nation%27+%22free+trial%22&sxsrf=APq-WBttUfiur8cBFWTatIm3VqptNCY0Lg%3A1649879840694&ei=ICtXYv6CKqmw_Qbl6L7YBw&ved=0ahUKEwj-ks6u6ZH3AhUpWN8KHWW0D3sQ4dUDCA4&uact=5&oq=%22fox+nation%27+%22free+trial%22&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIFCAAQhgMyBQgAEIYDMgUIABCGAzoHCAAQRxCwAzoKCAAQRxCwAxDJAzoICAAQkgMQsAM6EAguELEDEIMBEMcBENEDEEM6BQgAEJECOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoFCAAQgAQ6CwguELEDEIMBENQCOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToECAAQAzoRCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQowI6BgizARCFBDoECAAQQzoECC4QQzoICC4QgAQQsQM6DgguEIAEELEDEMcBEKMCOgsILhCABBDHARDRAzoLCC4QgAQQxwEQrwE6EQguEIAEELEDEMcBENEDENQCOggIABCxAxCDAToHCC4QsQMQQzoOCC4QgAQQxwEQrwEQ1AI6CgguEMcBENEDEEM6CAguELEDEJECOgcIABCxAxBDOggIABCABBCxAzoHCAAQChCRAjoICAAQsQMQkQI6BggAEAcQHjoECAAQHjoICCEQFhAdEB46BQghEKABOgYIABANEB46CAgAEAgQDRAeSgQIQRgASgQIRhgAUGdYkG9gsXFoBnABeACAAYYBiAG_F5IBBTE2LjE0mAEAoAEBsAEByAEKwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz">the top results of a Google keyword search</a> for <i>"Fox Nation" "free trial."</i> (Click the link and you'll see plenty of other results.)</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0N8BfnfrV56n-ukCDsVYFMowx65DKmiJZMHPuqMdPBdWyk7nhvXbIzXpUB_uQHSSERC9b_Lgdq3rRmjoKJ4FA0Od7gWbRc3h0jyrk1XaHcGt9CcurPyttzJzpC1fIJ7BnR03PffRp5xB2I9GuYbqAgTJF4Es5ix-DxJ8N5ixBASlT4hlu9nPhCIte" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="511" data-original-width="626" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0N8BfnfrV56n-ukCDsVYFMowx65DKmiJZMHPuqMdPBdWyk7nhvXbIzXpUB_uQHSSERC9b_Lgdq3rRmjoKJ4FA0Od7gWbRc3h0jyrk1XaHcGt9CcurPyttzJzpC1fIJ7BnR03PffRp5xB2I9GuYbqAgTJF4Es5ix-DxJ8N5ixBASlT4hlu9nPhCIte=w552-h450" width="552" /></a></div><br />Click on any of the "free trial" offer links and most take you back to <a href="https://nation.foxnews.com/">the Fox Nation home page</a> which contains "Start Your Free Trial" balloons and boxes up and down the page. <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfLY0KbWt4N4DyvPhBmYDTnj0wfb3GiiwoUjaP-a79Pi37L-s3dm6E7JwLElGnASG9uMwMHqPPN-SDBe99Yx18qWMWXxcmx7r7AOExp9qbZMqkTFi3VgUuvVoUDmUBYt5Ljlk7git7P4PuUaX5Wdo55db9STtN0YNGsaTtdJerBNKu2t3-b1eMWS0a" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="642" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfLY0KbWt4N4DyvPhBmYDTnj0wfb3GiiwoUjaP-a79Pi37L-s3dm6E7JwLElGnASG9uMwMHqPPN-SDBe99Yx18qWMWXxcmx7r7AOExp9qbZMqkTFi3VgUuvVoUDmUBYt5Ljlk7git7P4PuUaX5Wdo55db9STtN0YNGsaTtdJerBNKu2t3-b1eMWS0a=w554-h327" width="554" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhppy8iIkow9iTDQahtD85njoEYUi3VwMcHzE9KBPOdDT7i7YdFlK9liUVCBgDrzDP8pAxx4pab1fCXyJ3gXS7w84dipvfCjwvmRvvkf_MMJFaDV-qJtARrZUHKkaAWn7We1iVPKM_YQCrQmZsuIVvpx8Hm7dxXXQ94wKGFO3GvPXfVsZGwcC8NfXe5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="493" height="531" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhppy8iIkow9iTDQahtD85njoEYUi3VwMcHzE9KBPOdDT7i7YdFlK9liUVCBgDrzDP8pAxx4pab1fCXyJ3gXS7w84dipvfCjwvmRvvkf_MMJFaDV-qJtARrZUHKkaAWn7We1iVPKM_YQCrQmZsuIVvpx8Hm7dxXXQ94wKGFO3GvPXfVsZGwcC8NfXe5=w545-h531" width="545" /></a></div></div><p></p><p>But click <i>any</i> of the "Start Your Free Trial" balloons and boxes and you'll land on <a href="https://nation.foxnews.com/account/signup-plans/">this page</a> which offers no free trial option, only these paid subscriptions.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLVB0ctARgykwkElr8UdrfcIfHfDYoEOst5UkrpNtJmCq_RHlac5N9fDqe-MLy2u43k_bB-chDbMmN-uPBmWNjoUu7r5mMDkxcu8OLuHnCTmvqOObq97tkLSsnvktbs7l0yBTn3OqaiiZHs1U7QMlHDBrr6I5g0FZD_y-xhPysTCMsevfZbFgCFUjm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="845" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLVB0ctARgykwkElr8UdrfcIfHfDYoEOst5UkrpNtJmCq_RHlac5N9fDqe-MLy2u43k_bB-chDbMmN-uPBmWNjoUu7r5mMDkxcu8OLuHnCTmvqOObq97tkLSsnvktbs7l0yBTn3OqaiiZHs1U7QMlHDBrr6I5g0FZD_y-xhPysTCMsevfZbFgCFUjm=w642-h399" width="642" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>Here's what you get when you click the "monthly" button:</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV24TLsu8VY-mVqC7_VWx41YIXFbo6MtFeINhpM0iShMryxUjYtKK-DhHZ42Z9hzrGsyPtMrftU7yPpXFqFukpZfXELfyopor7-OrfaXvlmt-I3DnGV9WS6fP9GV7Hv1pjw3JKOGFf9pXOa9D7PMltepu4yobcXDSDObWzoeASdPQmSLzDrCtvxXgG/s865/monthly%20button%20results.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="865" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV24TLsu8VY-mVqC7_VWx41YIXFbo6MtFeINhpM0iShMryxUjYtKK-DhHZ42Z9hzrGsyPtMrftU7yPpXFqFukpZfXELfyopor7-OrfaXvlmt-I3DnGV9WS6fP9GV7Hv1pjw3JKOGFf9pXOa9D7PMltepu4yobcXDSDObWzoeASdPQmSLzDrCtvxXgG/w685-h150/monthly%20button%20results.png" width="685" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>See the offer for the free trial? neither do I.</div><div><br /></div><div>Obviously, this is fraudulent advertising so this afternoon I filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission and the Georgia Department of Law’s Consumer Protection Division.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Note: This item has been appended with new reporting.</i></div><div><p></p></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-21314838297409605032022-03-08T11:07:00.002-05:002022-03-08T11:07:28.064-05:00After I requested a published correction for a factual error, the Delaware News Journal disappeared the error - I've asked parent company Gannett for a ruling<p>For online news outlets that want to cover up reportorial errors, the digital age is a wish granted. </p><p>A reporter gets something wrong? Just disappear it.</p><p>How bad can it get? Per <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/top-editors-reject-call-to-penalise-ipso-regulated-publishers-for-deleting-stories-without-explanation/">a 2019 story in the journalism watchdog Press Gazette</a>, my efforts uncovered that the vast majority of UK news outlets can disappear <i>entire stories</i> without recourse.</p>Moving right along, what you're reading is tied to my January 26, 2022 blog item, <i><a href="http://www.the-sidebar.com/2022/01/my-dads-name-has-been-scrubbed-from.html">My dad's name has been scrubbed from a Delaware solar farm after I informed energy companies of his dark history</a></i>.<p>At the time, I pitched the story to a bunch of Delaware news outlets including the <i>News Journal</i>, the leading daily in Wilmington, but I didn't get any takers.</p><p>A few days ago my Google News alert sent me a March 4, 2022 <i>Journal News</i> story by reporter Ben Mace because it included these words:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwn-8gOrGr_EjVr9g13kbVPq2GA4jIePkJXQ7Szd-DnAUvBi3zI7JtvIRGzxHsTROTYsIyP3lq7ldp8T2aEUmx7SPBchSB_kG2XAPdQPxLydov3K30xgYeldi9clmiJ81r_LruUIUbQqEJGQc4Z_tj1jzLIiLx2Yr70db-YFyDB9iBfSLWF5jbw3bx" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="680" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwn-8gOrGr_EjVr9g13kbVPq2GA4jIePkJXQ7Szd-DnAUvBi3zI7JtvIRGzxHsTROTYsIyP3lq7ldp8T2aEUmx7SPBchSB_kG2XAPdQPxLydov3K30xgYeldi9clmiJ81r_LruUIUbQqEJGQc4Z_tj1jzLIiLx2Yr70db-YFyDB9iBfSLWF5jbw3bx=w667-h210" width="667" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Straightforward factual error, right? Per my blog, my dad's name had been dropped from the solar farm. </p><p>So on March 6, I emailed a polite request for a published correction to this department and copied Mr. Mace:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9QLC5K8zIPPxkjq7v5fS_XleN8eOEcDvS7dei_IRume7qSXYRS4uyC3oZMK9Mj1FVK-T2v-CjzA4YvQk_iHZvMvf3CybLQJRwL98PV1GWwSx7wKjMxkrVwYxgccMvRYLoC72cha6yIs0ohnBH4JQ7QEyPFIGmQbmGMdm17qi1ucxviJ61ceJmxP63" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="612" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9QLC5K8zIPPxkjq7v5fS_XleN8eOEcDvS7dei_IRume7qSXYRS4uyC3oZMK9Mj1FVK-T2v-CjzA4YvQk_iHZvMvf3CybLQJRwL98PV1GWwSx7wKjMxkrVwYxgccMvRYLoC72cha6yIs0ohnBH4JQ7QEyPFIGmQbmGMdm17qi1ucxviJ61ceJmxP63=w656-h402" width="656" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>The <i>News Journal</i> is owned by Gannett, so in my request I pointed out that any correction should adhere to <a href="https://members.newsleaders.org/resources-ethics-gannett#:~:text=We%20will%20treat%20people%20with,to%20readers%20our%20journalistic%20processes.">Gannett's editorial guidelines</a> which in this case should include an explanation that the name of the solar project was changed and on what date - also perhaps why it was changed.<div><br /></div><div>I never received a reply, but this morning I revisited <a href="https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2022/03/04/debate-where-put-solar-panels-shines-light-on-delaware-farmland-controversy/6924016001/">the paywalled article</a> and found this:</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqYldJJvKrj1FP23qlQDxMlJ3Fqo2HmAtnn7Rj9bC7yNwKWfi8DRSUQLcubdW7UoWHbkHewy-rL5CJDE9gKyeUUbr6dSijrYjI0XE32Xw153L9q11glBkNZCeMvxHSiUR4bV5bA2rRUtAWVU6GKXZEftOONFNsAz_5cLBWlRMkIFROrez73BPlwlV" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="239" data-original-width="615" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgoqYldJJvKrj1FP23qlQDxMlJ3Fqo2HmAtnn7Rj9bC7yNwKWfi8DRSUQLcubdW7UoWHbkHewy-rL5CJDE9gKyeUUbr6dSijrYjI0XE32Xw153L9q11glBkNZCeMvxHSiUR4bV5bA2rRUtAWVU6GKXZEftOONFNsAz_5cLBWlRMkIFROrez73BPlwlV=w660-h256" width="660" /></a></div><div><br />And this scrub job:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSXNSqVsW348Zom7c6g6WDbF8jDuE0ZPORht0n-M51_k3tcEjCRZGRSP1HFHaeainxLwbhy7lQK2A1pZ7XLbvsW9BaaY-zkaJ41YIKTSOAvf8qyYe0yp1THLRpH30T6JdFC6NV3qgJvBxKHHIwi7Fld25QJzlrNxahCBiRjXwCfKEB2N2jGgeMPV_p" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="643" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjSXNSqVsW348Zom7c6g6WDbF8jDuE0ZPORht0n-M51_k3tcEjCRZGRSP1HFHaeainxLwbhy7lQK2A1pZ7XLbvsW9BaaY-zkaJ41YIKTSOAvf8qyYe0yp1THLRpH30T6JdFC6NV3qgJvBxKHHIwi7Fld25QJzlrNxahCBiRjXwCfKEB2N2jGgeMPV_p=w654-h192" width="654" /></a></div><br /><br />You may not be surprised to learn that the article, updated the day after I sent my request, includes no note informing readers that the article's been corrected and why.</div><div><br /></div><div>In my opinion, that's sleazy journalism and may violate Gannett newsroom guidelines (see below), so this morning I asked a Gannett editorial representative for a ruling. </div><div><br /></div><div>I'll update this item with the results.</div><div><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Correcting errors</span></u></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">When errors occur,<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>the newspaper has an ethical obligation to correct the record and minimize harm.</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px;" type="SQUARE"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Errors should be corrected promptly. But first, a determination must be made that the fact indeed was in error and that the correction itself is fully accurate.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Errors should be corrected with sufficient prominence that readers who saw the original error are likely to see the correction. This is a matter of the editor’s judgment.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Although it is wise to avoid repeating the error in the correction, the correction should have sufficient context that readers will understand exactly what is being corrected.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Errors of nuance, context or tone may require clarifications, editor’s notes, editor’s columns or letters to the editor.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">When the newspaper disagrees with a news subject about whether a story contained an error, editors should consider offering the aggrieved party an opportunity to express his or her view in a letter to the editor.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Corrections should be reviewed before publication by a senior editor who was not directly involved in the error. The editor should determine if special handling or outside counsel are required.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Errors should be corrected whether or not they are called to the attention of the newspaper by someone outside the newsroom.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Factual errors should be corrected in most cases even if the subject of the error does not want it to be corrected. The rationale for this is rooted in the Truth Principle. It is the newspaper’s duty to provide accurate information to readers. An exception may be made – at the behest of the subject – when the correction of a relatively minor mistake would result in public ridicule or greater harm than the original error.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Newsroom staffers should be receptive to complaints about inaccuracies and follow up on them.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Newsroom staffers have a responsibility to alert the appropriate editor if they become aware of a possible error in the newspaper. </li></ul></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-55418060118196521672022-01-26T11:36:00.149-05:002022-01-29T07:57:10.543-05:00My dad's name has been scrubbed from a Delaware solar farm after I informed energy companies of his dark history [UPDATED]<span style="font-family: georgia;">A day after I sent a letter to three companies developing a solar energy farm in Delaware named after my father, the late Henry J. Heimlich MD (best known for his namesake anti-choking maneuver), his name has been stripped from the project.<br /><br />I learned of the project via this January 20, Cape Gazette item, <a href="https://www.capegazette.com/article/delaware-electric-cooperative-solar-projects-provide-clean-power/233629">Delaware Electric Cooperative solar projects to provide clean power</a>:<br /><blockquote>Seven new utility-scale solar projects will begin providing clean energy to Delaware Electric Cooperative members over the next three years. The nonprofit utility has announced it will purchase power produced at solar facilities to be built across Kent and Sussex counties. <br /><br />...Construction will also begin this year on the 4.5-megawatt Heimlich Solar Facility that will power about 900 Sussex County homes, farms and businesses. The project is a partnership between Delaware Electric Cooperative and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, which is owned by DEC and 10 other nonprofit electric cooperatives.<br /><br />The 35-acre facility is being built along Mile Stretch Road just west of Greenwood. Once completed, the facility will feature nearly 16,000 individual solar panels. The project is being managed by EDF Renewables Distributed Solutions, a developer of solar and battery storage projects in North America. The site, which is expected to begin producing power in late 2022, is named after Delaware native Henry Heimlich, who invented the Heimlich Maneuver.</blockquote>Here's my January 24 inquiry to executives at the companies (<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/rvtcy4nbipkt3b5/2022_Jan_24_PMH-executives_re_Heimlich_Solar_Partners.pdf/file">click here</a> to download a copy) and the email reply I received last night. </span><br /><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>
<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/554781045/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Nlcm27Tp5jo5wpsPaAuB" tabindex="0" title="My inquiry re: Delaware solar farm named after my notorious, destructive father (1/24/22)" width="100%"></iframe><div style="display: block; font: 14px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="display: block; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: normal; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td><span><b>blogger inquiry</b></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="display: block; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 12px auto 6px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><hr style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="message" style="color: black; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="font-size: small;">Christine Karlovic <Christine.Karlovic@edf-re.com></span></td><td align="right"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding-bottom: 4px;"><span class="recipient" style="font-size: small;"><div>To: "peter.heimlich@gmail.com" <peter.heimlich@gmail.com></div><div>Cc: Sandi Briner <Sandi.Briner@edf-re.com></div><div><span style="text-align: -webkit-right;">Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 7:41 PM</span></div></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table border="0" cellpadding="12" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td><div style="overflow: hidden;"><span><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-4085352290844641715WordSection1"><div id="m_-4085352290844641715id-600de39a-a453-4657-9432-7da3515b7cdf"><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715normaltextrun"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Dear Mr. Heimlich:</span></span><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715normaltextrun"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Thank you for bringing to our attention the history relating to your late father and the naming of the solar project. We have discussed the matter and will be changing the name of the project in the next couple of weeks to something more suitable. </span></span><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715normaltextrun"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">We thank you again for bringing your concern to our attention.</span></span><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="font-kerning: none; margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715normaltextrun"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Sincerely,</span></span><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="m_-4085352290844641715paragraph" style="margin: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="m_-4085352290844641715eop"><span face=""Calibri Light", sans-serif">Christine Karlovic</span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-size: 13px;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="box-sizing: initial; color: #002060; direction: ltr; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; max-width: 580px;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #002060; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; width: 431px;"><tbody><tr><td style="border-right: 2px solid rgb(0, 112, 192); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-right: 12px;" valign="top" width="144"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #002060; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 17px; width: 144px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0px; margin: 0.05pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.edf-re.com&source=gmail&ust=1643302391156000&usg=AOvVaw1KL7E-JEf3dniGKlADooCO" href="http://www.edf-re.com/" style="color: #002060; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img alt="EDFLogo" height="80" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhkMTD3_1c_AepzP_UGDWqDD9MCgpTNkdrR-zqzDOE_J50RtBQG9YN-Y4R4IpJpkWuP-u6HHZvCzpZOyg-HFJZd65EvTThh6BqlSRhFuUnS4XR_FPw4u8xP3rqQW8gcu69yudpPmEhZcMu7bTjPPj1TINZ6YjqXHwqN6uekXxEVF9BCm8IzBbdxQ1zu-Q=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; display: block;" width="144" /></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-left: 12px;" valign="top" width="260"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #002060; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 14px; width: 260px;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.05pt;"><strong>Christine Karlovic</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 15px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0.05pt;">Director, Communications</p></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" valign="top"><p style="font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0.05pt;">T: <a href="tel:1.917.371.5778" style="color: #002060; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">1.917.371.5778</a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b>1/29/22 UPDATE</b><br /><br />Via <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">the Wayback Machine</a>, a screenshot from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">San Diego-based EDF Renewables</a> website about the project (with "Deleware" typo):</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Z9D96UxbHToiD7k-YqhiIV_O3Nd9MQL1J8knWEKHgPH0F82kTrcs8SzgApZ-IslZMg98909BWAoLEwQbpK5GIstYOQIOfHsM8nRSMJvLMxvus009l_Cg__L_rdgjEnLfUxXE7_JNRAXswlca806IPUgLalT7NdEV7mMt4-e9bG2yHWGQEm-5Uh5T=s756" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="756" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9Z9D96UxbHToiD7k-YqhiIV_O3Nd9MQL1J8knWEKHgPH0F82kTrcs8SzgApZ-IslZMg98909BWAoLEwQbpK5GIstYOQIOfHsM8nRSMJvLMxvus009l_Cg__L_rdgjEnLfUxXE7_JNRAXswlca806IPUgLalT7NdEV7mMt4-e9bG2yHWGQEm-5Uh5T=w553-h250" width="553" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.edf-re.com/project/heimlich-solar/">Same page today</a> (with same typo):<br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPAtEGTF0GCcx3-y0f48iJy7FBEFt6jwEKxypa7ixRbceTK_2fa2hJpHAB-oEeCjnsJlkycNM7qf4iyuYQKE7c-xHVfRZxG5mH28DZl82K6bCJQu20Dr0XAtDS9qXeBOoNuBG969gFQMRbDakb3rnktVg0U-m-m0KTQaobuIatYKY9ClDpECnxhQws=s749" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="749" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPAtEGTF0GCcx3-y0f48iJy7FBEFt6jwEKxypa7ixRbceTK_2fa2hJpHAB-oEeCjnsJlkycNM7qf4iyuYQKE7c-xHVfRZxG5mH28DZl82K6bCJQu20Dr0XAtDS9qXeBOoNuBG969gFQMRbDakb3rnktVg0U-m-m0KTQaobuIatYKY9ClDpECnxhQws=w554-h208" width="554" /></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-25577560249140861402021-12-03T11:59:00.027-05:002022-01-03T12:51:00.378-05:00Inside Edition ran an error-ridden choking rescue story - today I asked for a published correction and an apology to a Minnesota bartender [1/2/22 UPDATE]<b>UPDATES: </b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1477633825345843206">Inside Edition Owes An Apology to Sun Prairie Bartender</a> by Peter M. Heimlich, Sun Prairie Star, January 2, 2022 (Link leads to Twitter thread with related added information)<br /></b><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://www.hngnews.com/sun_prairie_star/news/article_d002a2f8-8566-540c-aa64-5b55bae4e5f9.html">Choking incident that spawned viral video takes bizarre turn</a> by Chris Mertes, Sun Prairie Star, December 28, 2021</b><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">#####</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/maMqeud4QXs" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>
<div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">December 3, 2021</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Lee Malley<br />Assistant Managing Editor<br />Inside Edition<br />555 W. 57th St.<br />New York, NY 10019</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Dear Ms. Malley,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">This is me: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw3n-ycBe0fbVqiclsKCQILJ" href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a><br /><br /><span class="gmail_default">Based on the following information, t</span>his is to respectfully request <span class="gmail_default">a </span>published correction re: th<span class="gmail_default">e</span> November 24, 2021 <i>Inside Edition</i> report, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.insideedition.com/wisconsin-bartender-saves-choking-coworker-with-imperfect-heimlich-maneuver-71517&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw2nZxpx18k0zu9rhvI1J705" href="https://www.insideedition.com/wisconsin-bartender-saves-choking-coworker-with-imperfect-heimlich-maneuver-71517" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Wisconsin Bartender Saves Choking Coworker With Imperfect Heimlich Maneuver</a><span class="gmail_default"> by correspondent Ann Mercogliano. In my opinion,</span><span class="gmail_default"> <i>Inside Edition</i></span> <span class="gmail_default">also </span><span class="gmail_default">owes an </span>apolog<span class="gmail_default">y</span><span class="gmail_default"></span> to Joseph Reinhart, the<span class="gmail_default"> </span>bartender featured in the story.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From Ms. Mercogliano's story:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A young man was eating a chicken sandwich in the kitchen of a Wisconsin restaurant, when it went down the wrong way and he started choking. But the man who saved his life is getting backlash for the way he came to the rescue.<br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">When 20-year-old Ashton Hoffhein put his hands around his throat, making the universal sign for choking, bartender Joseph Reinhart sprung into action.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">“I noticed that he kind of had his hands by his throat for international sign for choking and just kind of without thought, I started performing what I knew as the Heimlich maneuver,” Reinhart said.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But his heroism is also making him the target of criticism, because he didn't use the perfect technique to execute the maneuver.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Reinhart wrapped his arms around Hoffein’s <i>[sic]</i> chest, much higher than they were supposed to be and lifted him off the ground while squeezing. Bad technique or not, it still worked, and the piece of chicken flew out.</span></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">...</span>“His technique wasn’t perfect, but it did contribute to saving his life,” expert Shane Woodall of Frontline Health told Inside Edition.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Woodall showed us the correct way to do the Heimlich maneuver. </span></div></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;">First, my father's namesake anti-choking maneuver is an <i>abdominal thrust</i> in which a rescuer's hands are placed below the rib cage and above the naval. A <i>chest thrust</i> (or chest compression) is, naturally, performed on the chest. </span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Per <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/yz37z6l6n3v2wsk/2007+April+25+Joint+AHA-ARC+media+statement+re+chest+thrusts.pdf/file">this joint statement by the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American Red Cross (ARC)</a>, since at least 2007 both organizations have recommended chest thrusts as an effective treatment response in a choking emergency.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">More f</span>rom resuscitation expert Richard N. Bradley MD<span class="gmail_default"> in </span><span class="gmail_default">a</span> January 22, 2013 <span class="gmail_default">post on</span><span class="gmail_default"> the ARC's </span>blog<span class="gmail_default"> entitled</span> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://redcrosschat.org/2013/01/22/choking-101/&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw0N56y7r8baHAyCGOFlg6bD" href="https://redcrosschat.org/2013/01/22/choking-101/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Choking 101</a><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">:</span></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="color: #222222;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A review of the scientific literature suggested that back blows, abdominal thrusts and chest compressions are equally effective<span class="gmail_default"> (at relieving an airway obstruction)</span>. Additionally, the use of more than one method can be more effective to dislodge an object. These findings are consistent with those of international resuscitation societies.</span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Red Cross certainly isn’t discounting the use of abdominal thrusts. But we include back blows, abdominal thrusts and chest compressions in our training...</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">From <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw2DnX1ZyKvHgwiJpX6_OUOw" href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">ILCOR's </a></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw2DnX1ZyKvHgwiJpX6_OUOw" href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations</a><span class="gmail_default"> published on </span><span style="color: black;">Oct<span class="gmail_default">ober 21,</span> 2020<span class="gmail_default"> </span></span>in <i>Circulation</i><span style="color: black;"><span class="gmail_default">, </span></span>the <span class="gmail_default">AHA's </span>journal<span style="color: black;"><span class="gmail_default">:</span></span> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) was formed in 1992 as an international council of councils and currently includes representatives from the American Heart Association (AHA), the European Resuscitation Council, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation, the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa, the InterAmerican Heart Foundation, and the Resuscitation Council of Asia.1 The ILCOR mission is to promote, disseminate, and advocate international implementation of evidence-informed resuscitation and first aid by using transparent evaluation and consensus summary of scientific data.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"></span><br /></span></div></blockquote><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">...The topic of foreign body airway obstruction (FBAO) was last reviewed by ILCOR in 2010, and at that time, the principal treatment recommendation was that “chest thrusts, back blows, or abdominal thrusts are effective for relieving FBAO in conscious adults and children older than 1 year.<br /></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the AHA's <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.110.970939&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw3XXj4sfAAUh0kxLFs7ly77" href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circulationaha.110.970939" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">2010 Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care</a><span class="gmail_default"> (my emphasis):</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #222222; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although chest thrusts, back slaps, and abdominal thrusts are feasible and effective for relieving severe FBAO in conscious (responsive) adults and children ≥1 year of age, <b>for simplicity in training</b> it is recommended that abdominal thrusts be applied in rapid sequence until the obstruction is relieved (Class IIb, LOE B). If abdominal thrusts are not effective, the rescuer may consider chest thrusts (Class IIb, LOE B). It is important to note that abdominal thrusts are not recommended for infants <1 year of age because thrusts may cause injuries.</span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div><span class="gmail_default">Long story short, the entire framing of Ms. Mercagliano's is misguided because the choking rescue at Daly's Bar and Grill in Sun Prairie, MN, had nothing to do with the Heimlich maneuver. </span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Further, as I've shown, Mr. Reinhart's response to Mr. Hoffhein's distress was in compliance with approved guidelines and recommendations.* </span><div><span class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">Here's another twist</span> from <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/the-heimlich-manoeuvre/3094802&source=gmail&ust=1638636092107000&usg=AOvVaw0mLqZzTL0BkkiCK5Ls30R7" href="https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/the-heimlich-manoeuvre/3094802" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">The Heimlich manoeuvre</a> by Aviva Ziegler, an Australian Broadcasting Corporation <span class="gmail_default">audio </span>documentary<span class="gmail_default"> dated</span> January 18, 2010:<br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Trainer:</b> A question that often comes up in our courses is to why we don't do the Heimlich manoeuvre in Australia. So are you all aware of that where they get that sort of a bear hug squeeze from behind? OK, the reason it's not taught is the simple fact that research conducted here in Australia and also overseas has proven that it can be dangerous because there's a risk of damaging internal organs such as the spleen, the liver, pancreas etc. We follow the policy statements as laid down by the Australian Resuscitation Council<span class="gmail_default"></span>, they are saying that if there was any clinical evidence to prove that it was effective they'd put a policy on it and we would have it in our book. Any other questions?</span></div></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nzrc.org.nz/assets/Guidelines/BLS/ANZCOR-Guideline-4-Airway-April-2021.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw2AcnWTPyyDw8oH0PAwhp0u" href="https://www.nzrc.org.nz/assets/Guidelines/BLS/ANZCOR-Guideline-4-Airway-April-2021.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">April 2021 guidelines jointly issued by the Australian and New Zealand Resuscitation Councils</a> provide more details (my emphasis): </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default"></span>A Foreign Body Airway Obstruction (FBAO) is a life-threatening emergency. Chest thrusts or back blows are effective for relieving FBAO in conscious adults and children with low risk of harm (only 4 observational studies report harm from back blows and 5 observational studies report harm from chest thrusts). <b>Life-threatening complications associated with use of abdominal thrusts (including the Heimlich Manoeuvre) have been reported in 52 observational studies.<span class="gmail_default"> [<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/9hpw1g7kktms5m5/Compilation+of+journal+citations+re+complications+associated+with+Heimlich+maneuver.pdf/file">Click here</a> for a compilation of study citations.]</span> </b>Therefore, the use of abdominal thrusts in the management of FBAO is not recommended and, instead back blows and chest thrusts should be used. [Good practice<span class="gmail_default"> </span>statement] These techniques should be applied in rapid sequence until the obstruction is relieved. More than one technique may be needed: there is insufficient evidence to determine which should be used first.</span></blockquote><div></div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">Here's more</span> from <span class="gmail_default">a</span><span class="gmail_default"> </span>2018<span class="gmail_default">-</span>19 two-part article, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theskepticalcardiologist.com/tag/heimlich-maneuver/&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw3_qZKyO2HQputDOMksI7iJ" href="https://theskepticalcardiologist.com/tag/heimlich-maneuver/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A Call to Reconsider the Heimlich Experiment</a><span class="gmail_default">,</span> by Dr. Anthony Pearson of St. Louis, MO (aka The Skeptical Cardiologist)<span class="gmail_default">:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;">(It) is clear the Heimlich maneuver was recommended by Henry Heimlich for general usage without any human clinical studies to support its safety and efficacy. With <span class="gmail_default">(Dr.) </span>Heimlich’s aggressive promoting of the technique it became the recommended way to treat choking conscious individuals despite experimental evidence showing it inferior to chest thrusts and no controlled human trials to support its safety and effectiveness.</span></div></blockquote><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Australia and New Zealand, countries free of Heimlich’s influence, do not recommend the Heimlich maneuver for choking victims.</span></div></blockquote><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is entirely possible that chest thrusts are a safer and more effective maneuver for removing foreign bodies from choking victims. Since Dr. Heimlich died in December, 2016 perhaps the organizations that teach CPR can reevaluate their recommendations in this area without fear of public shaming or retribution.</span></div></blockquote><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Given the uncertainty in the treatment of choking victims and the number of deaths<span class="gmail_default">,</span> a national trial comparing chest thrusts versus abdominal thrusts as the initial procedure should be initiated as soon as possible.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span class="gmail_default">In other words, by using chest thrusts to respond to Mr. Hoffhein's predicament, Mr. Reinhard may have pointed to the future of first aid in our country and elsewhere. That's worthy of commendation, not the ill-informed criticism he received in Ms. Mercogliano's story.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">Moving right along, presumably everyone can agree that the public is entitled to the best available medical care. And the topic is clearly newsworthy - a search of the word <i>choking</i> on Inside Edition's website <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.insideedition.com/search?keywords%3Dchoking%26form_build_id%3Dform-AVqTn_pftNijNBl_p524pOvbyYt_kFxlC45O-N08s3A%26form_id%3Dsearch_block_form%26op%3D&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw1YjGKqHxJoqhaY4kqMACPO" href="https://www.insideedition.com/search?keywords=choking&form_build_id=form-AVqTn_pftNijNBl_p524pOvbyYt_kFxlC45O-N08s3A&form_id=search_block_form&op=" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">turned up countless stories</a>. </span>Nevertheless, based on my experience, most people - including <span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"></span>medical professionals - are unaware of the <span class="gmail_default">chest thrust vs. abdominal thrust debate</span><span class="gmail_default"></span>. <span class="gmail_default">With that in mind</span>, I'd encourage <i>Inside Edition</i> or another CBS news <span class="gmail_default">program</span> to further explore the topic. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">Finally, </span><span class="gmail_default">on </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.insideedition.com&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw2DIwIRM94oPZBF91BCr3zD" href="https://www.insideedition.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>insideedition.com</a><span class="gmail_default"> </span>I <span class="gmail_default">was unable to</span> <span class="gmail_default">locate instructions on how</span><span class="gmail_default"> to submit a corrections request to your program. Prior to being provided your contact information by CBS's publicity department, I sent multiple emails and left voice messages for a number of your program's executives in which I simply asked their guidance on how to submit a corrections request to your program. None responded. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">Per <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/01/31/media-outlets-choke-on-heimlich-obituaries/&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw0JoFvYjlJWfoZwkJXG1nQg" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/01/31/media-outlets-choke-on-heimlich-obituaries/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">this Washington Post column</a> by Erik Wemple, I'm dogged when it comes to obtaining published corrections, but in the interests of providing accurate information to your audience, why not make it easier? </span><span class="gmail_default">Would you please raise this concern with the appropriate editors and let me know their response? </span> </span></div><div><span class="gmail_default"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">T</span>hank<span class="gmail_default">s much</span> for your <span class="gmail_default">time/</span>consideration and I look forward to your reply. Questions for me? Just ask.<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sincerely, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default"></span><br />Peter M. Heimlich<br />Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USA<br />ph: (678)322-7984<br />e-mail: <a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a><br />website: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://medfraud.info&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw25ge8JNMj3wrs0iV-h6Dud" href="http://medfraud.info/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://medfraud.info</a><br />blog: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://the-sidebar.com&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw2PTLFd7Ybd-q_tmfLGZPxF" href="http://the-sidebar.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://the-sidebar.com</a><br />Twitter: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw2HJ5uwoAOVgqMYzO3VXBTF" href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/medfraud_<wbr></wbr>pmh</a><br />bio: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw3e9CJTqRQx7iiQtYWRTsk9" href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">cc: Joseph Reinhart<span class="gmail_default">/</span>Daly's Bar and Grill<br /> Chris Mertes<span class="gmail_default">, </span>Managing Editor<span class="gmail_default">/</span>Sun Prairie Star</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default"> Anthony Pearson, MD/The Skeptical Cardiologist</span><br /> C<span class="gmail_default">hris Ender, Leslie Ryan/CBS Communications</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Erik Wemple/Washington Post</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Esther Pessin, Co-Executive Producer<span class="gmail_default">/</span>Inside Edition<span class="gmail_default"></span> <span class="gmail_default"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="gmail_default">encl: </span>2007 April 25 Joint AHA-ARC media statement re chest thrusts.pdf; </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Compilation of journal citations re complications associated with Heimlich maneuver</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia;">.pdf</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">*<span class="gmail_default"> </span><span class="gmail_default">From the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw3naqDPb3BkOQI9wYjTTYbK" href="https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">website of</a></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw3naqDPb3BkOQI9wYjTTYbK" href="https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> Mr. Woodall<span class="gmail_default">'s</span></a><span class="gmail_default"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw3naqDPb3BkOQI9wYjTTYbK" href="https://www.frontlinehealth.com/blog/cpr/frontline-healths-shane-woodall-on-national-tv-how-to-save-a-choking-baby" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> New York City company</a>:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Frontline Health LLC is a Proud Provider of American Red Cross First Aid CPR AED certification training classes and an American Heart Association BLS Provider certification training site.</span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Presumably Mr. Woodall is aware of the above information. Did he share it with Ms. Mercogliano? Last week <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1463895147595321346&source=gmail&ust=1638636119030000&usg=AOvVaw18nwo3TMSvhntzqX49VgUO" href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1463895147595321346" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">via tweets to both of them</a> and an email and voice message to Mr. Woodall, I attempted to contact them in order to discuss my concerns. I <span>didn't receive a reply.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-34418029529838336562021-11-27T07:44:00.009-05:002021-12-10T09:18:00.364-05:00A tale of two corrections requests: Part II, Kiwi columnist conceals cock-up! (12/10/21 UPDATE: The New Zealand Herald fixes the glitch - twice - and moves forward the story)<div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">12/10/21 UPDATE: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a prompt, helpful reply to my November 27 request to the New Zealand Media Council (see below the hash marks), Executive Director Mary Major informed me that, before her organization could get involved, I needed to give the Herald a chance to resolve the problem.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her guidance resulted in a productive and friendly exchange with David Rowe, the paper's senior newsroom editor. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the course of our correspondence I explained that I'd like to use opportunity to move forward the story about my dad's claims that in 2001 and 2016 he'd reportedly rescued choking victims using his namesake maneuver.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">That resulted in the following paragraph being tagged onto Ana Samways's <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/sideswipe-october-29-alfresco-dining-in-ponsonby-2021/6SCDQNZUUI2ORSHIYVVSQ5J2SU/">October 28</a> and <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/sideswipe-november-9-nah-im-only-getting-a-couple-of-things/I6JYIKY2HJFNKSAO3KKN4EKD7A/">November 9</a> Sideswipe columns. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's the first time I've expressed my opinion about the two cases in a mainstream news outlet. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><h2 class="article__heading" style="background-color: white; font-family: Stag, Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.875rem; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 0.3125rem; margin-top: 1.25rem;">Sounds too good to be true?</h2><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 10px 0px;">Sideswipe recently reported that Henry Heimlich demonstrated his signature manoeuvre and only got to use it in an actual emergency when he was 96 when he saved a woman in his nursing home from choking on a burger. The story went viral in mid-2016, but his son Peter M. Heimlich believes it's false: "The 2016 story was packaged as a tie-in to the upcoming June 1 'National Heimlich Manoeuvre Day' by a public relations company representing the corporate parent of the Cincinnati, Ohio, nursing home where my father was living. The PR company handed the package (which mostly consisted of video interviews they had conducted) to the Cincinnati Enquirer. For obvious reasons, the story took off and turned up in scores of media outlets. Among other problems, per a video interview at the time, my dad was extremely frail and could barely get his arms around the woman he purportedly rescued." Peter adds that after the story went viral, he informed reporters that from 2001-2006 his father had told at least four reporters that he had saved the life of a choking victim at a Cincinnati, Ohio, restaurant in 2001. "My outreach resulted in numerous published corrections to the 2016 story. My opinion? Both 'rescues' were bogus."</div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 10px 0px; text-align: center;">######</div></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">What do a blogging rabbi in Boca Raton, FL, and New Zealand Herald <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/ana-samways/">columnist Ana Samways</a> have in common?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In articles published in the same week, they made the identical factual error. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">When I sent them polite requests for published corrections, rather than simply correcting the record and informing readers that they'd goofed, they gave me material for this pair of blog items. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The one you're reading is a complaint I filed yesterday against the Herald with <a href="https://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/principles/">the New Zealand Media Council</a>, "(an industry self-regulatory body that provides) the public with an independent forum for resolving complaints involving the newspapers, magazines and the websites of such publications and other digital media."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'll update with the Council's response.<br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><b style="font-family: georgia;">Here's part I, <i><a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2021/11/a-tale-of-two-correction-requests-part.html">If you can't trust a rabbi, who can you trust?</a></i></b></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">### </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Subject: complaint against NZ Herald, 26 November 2021</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From: <a href="mailto:Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com">Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com</a><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Date: Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 4:12 PM</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">To: <a href="mailto:info@mediacouncil.org.nz">info@mediacouncil.org.nz</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cc: Charlotte Tobitt</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mary Major<br />Executive Director<br />NZ Media Council<br />79 Boulcott Street<br />Wellington, 6011 New Zealand<br /><br />Dear Ms. Major:<br /><br />This is me: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a><br /><br />Today I attempted to submit the following complaint via your website, but when I made multiple attempts using your online form, I kept receiving this message and was unable to proceed:<br /><br /><img height="283" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=c6e58f3068&view=fimg&th=17d5e17af58cb091&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_kwgs9gy00&attbid=ANGjdJ_1ok7I9RgZ4OPL81CTeqbmOGVlCS3lXwJSTfPreylI2PZAU2jTYulZ3xCOuygLu_Ifc1f8b1hb3htNpTTXnhGdJDleRqkT9-wQ8pS3omQgfIbj0vFOEZsmz4g&sz=w872-h464&ats=1638008194110&rm=17d5e17af58cb091&zw&atsh=1" width="535" /><br /><br />The publication date of the problematic Herald article was 28 October 2021 and, <a href="https://www.mediacouncil.org.nz/complaints/">per the Media Council's website</a>, the complaint submission window is but one calendar month - two days from today - so I would greatly appreciate you accepting my complaint via this email.<br /><br />Would you please review the attached pdf which consists of emails I recently exchanged with Herald columnist Ana Samways? It's in reverse chronology, so please start at the bottom and read up.<br /><br />Briefly, per my first email to Ms. Samways - dated 29 October and clearly marked PRIVATE EMAIL; NOT FOR PUBLICATION - I explained that she'd made a factual error in this first item from her previous day's Sideswipe column:<br /><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. Henry Heimlich demonstrated his signature manoeuvre thousands of times throughout his life but he never got the chance to use it in an actual emergency until he was 96 when he saved a woman in his nursing home from choking on a burger.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />As I explained to Ms. Samways and provided thorough supporting documentation, from 2001-2006 my father had told at least four reporters that he'd saved the life of a choking victim at a Cincinnati, Ohio, restaurant in 2001. <br /><br />In other words, this part of her item was wrong - <i>(Dr. Heimlich) never got the chance to use (his namesake anti-choking manoeuvre) in an actual emergency until he was 96 (in 2016)</i> - so I requested a published correction.<br /><br />Instead of correcting her error, without my consent <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/sideswipe-november-9-nah-im-only-getting-a-couple-of-things/I6JYIKY2HJFNKSAO3KKN4EKD7A/">she published this in her 9 November 2021 column</a>:</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6cxlnTZc9I/YaIIhqB4p0I/AAAAAAAAG84/cwBF6ASX4I4Kjcuky4GZy5QGjy16YVzGACLcBGAsYHQ/s722/Too%2Bgood%2Bto%2Bbe%2Btrue.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="722" height="215" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q6cxlnTZc9I/YaIIhqB4p0I/AAAAAAAAG84/cwBF6ASX4I4Kjcuky4GZy5QGjy16YVzGACLcBGAsYHQ/w637-h215/Too%2Bgood%2Bto%2Bbe%2Btrue.png" width="637" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In two 14 November 2021 emails to Ms. Samways, I pointed out that the sentences she lifted from my first email did not correct her original error. I also pointed out that I hadn't given her permission to publish my email and asked if doing so was in compliance with her paper's editorial policy?</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />She then wrote me a rude email in which failed to address her factual error or to answer my question. In my final email, I asked Ms. Samways for her editor's name and email address. I never received a reply, hence this complaint.<br /><br />But there's more.<br /><br />When I subsequently revisited the URL of her 28 October column, I discovered her item about my father (with the factual error) had been replaced with this unrelated item without a note to readers explaining the substitution:<br /><br /><img height="272" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=c6e58f3068&view=fimg&th=17d5e17af58cb091&attid=0.2&disp=emb&realattid=ii_kwgu404q1&attbid=ANGjdJ93Ry07ryT7vaIFLvh_rZ9xAz0IvrsvwHMKRTs_S_MrXv1E3_L6O-jjNmZgwvV94ZUBeM9ZHVDkl0Pnc_GM1kQZcOnDEk_MSRqL3XUTqUm6NwLg7MYk973m3kM&sz=w1064-h478&ats=1638008194111&rm=17d5e17af58cb091&zw&atsh=1" width="606" /><br /><br />To summarize:<br /><br />1) Instead of correcting a factual error, the Herald entirely replaced part of an article, presumably to "disappear" the error. <br /><br />2) The Herald published sentences from an email clearly marked PRIVATE EMAIL; NOT FOR PUBLICATION.<br /><br />Would you please determine if either or both actions are in compliance with your organization's policies and provide me with the results?<br /><br />Incidentally, per <a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/top-editors-reject-call-to-penalise-ipso-regulated-publishers-for-deleting-stories-without-explanation/">this 30 May 2019 Press Gazette report by Charlotte Tobitt</a>, my efforts revealed that member publications of the UK's Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) could "disappear" articles without recourse. I hope that doesn't go for your organization's member publications.<br /><br />Thank you for your time/consideration, best of the holiday season, and would you please confirm receipt? <br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Peter M. Heimlich<br />Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USA<br />ph: (678)322-7984<br />e-mail: <a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a><br />website: <a href="http://medfraud.info/">http://medfraud.info</a><br />blog: <a href="http://the-sidebar.com/">http://the-sidebar.com</a><br />Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh">https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh</a><br />bio: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a><br /><br />cc: Charlotte Tobitt, Press Gazette</span></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-44925650085096972722021-11-27T07:35:00.025-05:002021-11-27T07:48:34.461-05:00A tale of two correction requests, Part I: If you can't trust a rabbi, who can you trust?<div><span style="font-family: georgia;">What do a blogging rabbi in Boca Raton, FL, and New Zealand Herald <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/ana-samways/">columnist Ana Samways</a> have in common?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In articles published in the same week, they made the identical factual error. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And when I sent them polite requests for published corrections, rather than correct the record and inform their readers that they'd goofed, they gave me material for this pair of blog items.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4DREt2jfls/YZvABu-t9rI/AAAAAAAAG7U/6aESsFDiJ7YKxUeuLv3lh6G6voirfrsZACLcBGAsYHQ/s300/Efrem%2BGoldberg.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="300" height="287" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R4DREt2jfls/YZvABu-t9rI/AAAAAAAAG7U/6aESsFDiJ7YKxUeuLv3lh6G6voirfrsZACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Efrem%2BGoldberg.jpg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">According to his website</a>, Ephrem Goldberg is "the Senior Rabbi of the Boca Raton Synagogue (BRS), a rapidly-growing congregation of over 800 families and over 1,000 children in Boca Raton, Florida. BRS is the largest Orthodox Synagogue in the Southeast United States."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From Rabbi Goldberg's November 9 blog item, <a href="https://rabbiefremgoldberg.org/angel">Are You An Earth Angel?</a>:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prior to 1974, the standard practice for dealing with someone who was choking was to whack the afflicted person on the back. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96">Dr. Henry Heimlich</a> argued hitting them that way can force the obstruction further into the gullet, rather than dislodge it. He worked on various theories attempting a better way before ultimately coming up with the technique of putting one’s arms around the person choking and exerting upward abdominal thrusts, just above the navel and below the ribs, with the linked hands in a fist, until the obstruction is dislodged.<br /><br />...Despite introducing the technique, Heimlich had never actually used it the 42 years of its existence. In 2016, Dr. Heimlich was in the dining room of his retirement home in Cincinnati. A fellow resident at the next table began to choke. Without hesitation, Heimlich spun her around in her chair so he could get behind her and administered several upward thrusts with a fist below the chest until the piece of meat she was choking on popped out of her throat and she could breathe again.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">Click on the link in his first paragraph and you'll be taken to a May 27, 2016 Guardian article by reporter Joanna Walters, <i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/27/dr-heimlich-performs-heimlich-manoeuvre-for-first-time-aged-96">Dr Henry Heimlich uses Heimlich manoeuvre to save a life at 96</a>,</i> which includes this at the end:</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Readers’ editor’s note, added 28 June 2016: </b>This article has been amended to reflect the uncertainty about whether Ms Ris is the first choking diner Dr Heimlich personally saved by using his manoeuvre.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">That's because immediately after the first version of the article appeared, I contacted the Guardian (and other news outlets that got punk'd) and shared this information that appeared in the June 28 revision:<br /></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">After initial reports emerged of Heimlich and his son Philip declaring this was the first time the retired surgeon had used his technique to treat someone who was choking, an account emerged of an earlier incident.<br /><br />A 2003<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2825971.stm"> BBC Online report</a> quoted Heimlich talking about using the manoeuvre on a choking diner in a restaurant in 2000. Reports also appeared in the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/05/08/choke-artist">New Yorker</a> and the <a href="http://medfraud.info/10-7-01_SunTime%20JRitter%20Bankers%20Club.pdf">Chicago Sun-Times</a>. Interviewed again on Friday afternoon by the Guardian, the 96-year-old Heimlich said he did not recall such an incident. His son Philip also stated that he had no knowledge of his father using the technique in any prior emergency..</span></blockquote><div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since we're on the subject, take a look at this clip from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guXTDPKTNzY">Remembering Dr. Heimlich</a>, Decades TV Network, December 20, 2016 featuring an interview with dad and alleged choking victim Patty Ris:</span></p></div></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nKijoBw5f_c" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the bottom right corner in the last scene, you'll see the walker dad relied on to get around. He was so frail, in the clip he can barely get his arms around Ms. Ris.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Did he really have the strength to compress her diaphragm by administering, as Rabbi Goldberg claimed, "several upward thrusts with a fist below the chest"?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">As suggested by this wry June 1, 2016 column by James M. Berklan in McKnights Long-Term Care News, <a href="https://www.mcknights.com/daily-editors-notes/this-lifesaving-coincidence-definitely-makes-you-swallow-deeply/">This lifesaving coincidence definitely makes you swallow deeply</a>, was it all a media stunt cooked up by Deupree House's PR team as a tie-in to National Heimlich Maneuver Week?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Of course, unless someone coughs up more information we won't know for certain. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But we do know that Rabbi Goldberg got it wrong about Mr. Ris being dad's first claimed rescue. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also apparently the rabbi failed to read the Guardian article he linked to in his item.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a polite November 11 text, I introduced myself and wrote: </span></div><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">My Google alert sent me your article today about my dad. You made a somewhat serious factual error. If you'd like to learn more so you decide whether or not you wish to publish a correction, please email me at <a href="mailto:Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com">Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com</a></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A short while later I received this encouraging reply:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DK5AuBoxMqY/YZvvlSfj4KI/AAAAAAAAG7k/NcdIQj0kDoABREnNI4r3gPyDPitbJntJACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="856" height="401" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DK5AuBoxMqY/YZvvlSfj4KI/AAAAAAAAG7k/NcdIQj0kDoABREnNI4r3gPyDPitbJntJACLcBGAsYHQ/w663-h401/image.png" width="663" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I then sent him a friendly email with information that I thought might interest a religious scholar. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In addition to explaining the error in his "Earth Angel" item, I wrote:</span></div><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">One unexpected privilege and pleasure of the research/whistleblowing efforts by my wife Karen Shulman and me (which helped expose my dad as a dangerous charlatan) is the opportunities I've had to connect with interesting, thoughtful people with whom we otherwise would never have had the opportunity to interact. As it happens, you are my second rabbi! Some years ago I had a lively correspondence with a Southern California rabbi who appreciated the ethical and moral ambiguities in what Karen and I call (for lack of a better term) the Heimlich Saga.<br /><br />Along those lines, I would much welcome your thoughts as a scholar and presumably a mensch. (smile) Seriously, I have minimal religious training, but I'm confident the Talmud must speak to some of the issues raised by this thorny and perhaps singular story. Heck, maybe one or both of us can even get a blog item out of it.</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">His reply?</span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you for being in touch, sounds like a very painful issue. Wishing you only strength and comfort.</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">During the course of the next week I sent Rabbi Goldberg two more polite emails and a text in which I explained New Zealand columnist Ana Samways had made the same error (see <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2021/11/a-tale-of-two-corrections-requests-part.html">Part II</a>) and that her unusual response to my corrections request had given me enough to blog an item I intended to call "A tale of two corrections requests."</span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I bent over backwards to give him every opportunity and explained that if he didn't reply, all I had to run with was the above email.</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He didn't reply.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">For more, don't miss <a href="https://www.rabbiefremgoldberg.org/wordbond">Rabbi Goldberg's August 17, 2021 item</a>:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QoEwZJnttoU/YZv7i1R653I/AAAAAAAAG7s/kDaHHWhxdFE7cVFJjW20gAA4wwmaRbpwACLcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="822" height="323" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QoEwZJnttoU/YZv7i1R653I/AAAAAAAAG7s/kDaHHWhxdFE7cVFJjW20gAA4wwmaRbpwACLcBGAsYHQ/w662-h323/image.png" width="662" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br here="" i="" ii:="" nbsp="" part="" s="" /><b><a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2021/11/a-tale-of-two-corrections-requests-part.html">Part II: Kiwi columnist conceals cock-up!</a></b></span></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-59621905925347561602021-11-09T14:29:00.017-05:002021-11-09T15:19:25.322-05:00I caught the CDC's FOIA Director violating the Freedom of Information Act - here's what happened when I took it to his boss<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzg2hB289jo/YYq8Ch9QdjI/AAAAAAAAG24/zsDkYsVfw9QCz4eodY28ETkYr8HSh6i0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s229/Andoh.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="192" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dzg2hB289jo/YYq8Ch9QdjI/AAAAAAAAG24/zsDkYsVfw9QCz4eodY28ETkYr8HSh6i0ACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Andoh.jpg" width="192" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">CDC FOIA Director Roger Andoh (<a href="https://foia.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/14/getting-to-know-the-foia-advisory-committee-roger-andoh/">source</a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">My first rule when filing a public records request? Always state a dollar cap limit. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you don't, the agency can legally bill you whatever it determines is the processing fee. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />That's why in a May 11, 2017 Freedom of Information request to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), I included: </span></div><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>If the fee for completing my request exceeds US$5, please obtain my written approval prior to completing this request.</i></span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>The CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/foia/fees/index.html">From the HHS website</a>:</div><div> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLPWzbwko3U/YYrXKwiOD9I/AAAAAAAAG3o/kNWQOPu3yhcrVkhTfe109RA6RPVTiwK6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s671/HHS%2BFOIA%2Bfee%2Bss.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="199" data-original-width="671" height="178" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OLPWzbwko3U/YYrXKwiOD9I/AAAAAAAAG3o/kNWQOPu3yhcrVkhTfe109RA6RPVTiwK6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w598-h178/HHS%2BFOIA%2Bfee%2Bss.gif" width="598" /></a></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div>So imagine my surprise when, in response to the next FOIA request I sent to the CDC - three years later on April 25, 2020 - I received a reply from one of the agency's FOIA officer that my request was denied. </div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why? </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The agency claimed I owed an outstanding processing fee of $138 for my 2017 FOIA request. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This was the first I'd heard of it. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'd never received any letter or invoice, but after some back and forth with the FOIA officer, I learned that the fee had been assessed in a July 31, 2017 letter to me from CDC FOIA Officer Roger Andoh. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's the paragraph:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0LWJpFia-BY/YYq_DsaieKI/AAAAAAAAG3I/vzcrhQFKmaYVac57kAFRKMwlNt-ujO5GwCLcBGAsYHQ/s863/2021-11-09_133325.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="98" data-original-width="863" height="89" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0LWJpFia-BY/YYq_DsaieKI/AAAAAAAAG3I/vzcrhQFKmaYVac57kAFRKMwlNt-ujO5GwCLcBGAsYHQ/w786-h89/2021-11-09_133325.gif" width="786" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">By the time I received the 2020 denial letter, Mr. Andoh had been promoted to the CDC's FOIA Director. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Shortly after receiving the denial, I placed a call to Mr. Andoh during which I politely explained that he'd probably made a clerical error and overlooked the $5 cap instruction in my 2017 request. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He agreed to review the situation and, after we hung up, I sent him a copy of my FOIA request with this highlighted paragraph:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw2uFLggP1A/YYq-AGWjSLI/AAAAAAAAG3A/7zxXPxs8blsLCYCJKjWHA0m_LkPvLcBTQCLcBGAsYHQ/s908/2021-11-09_132830.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="104" data-original-width="908" height="101" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Uw2uFLggP1A/YYq-AGWjSLI/AAAAAAAAG3A/7zxXPxs8blsLCYCJKjWHA0m_LkPvLcBTQCLcBGAsYHQ/w874-h101/2021-11-09_132830.gif" width="874" /></span></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since it was an open and shut case, I assumed Mr. Andoh would say "oops," cancel the wrongly-assessed fee, and process the request that was rejected because of the wrongly-assessed fee. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Instead, here's his May 11, 2020 reply, slightly edited for clarity:</span></div></div><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(I've reviewed your casefile) and all relevant material and regret to inform you that I am unwilling to waive the fee charged to you. The letter you received (attached) informed you of the assessed charge. You claim you didn't receive the invoice, and I take you at your word, but the letter did inform you of the fee. Additionally, you failed to dispute the fees at that time, which you clearly could have done within 90 days of the date of the letter. In accordance, with HHS FOIA regulation, if a requester has failed to pay past fees, we are required to request payment before we begin processing a new request. Therefore, I have no choice but to deny your request to waive the past fee owed.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">First, note the <i>Alice Through the Looking Glass </i>logic. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr. Andoh claims, "I take you at your word." In other words, he accepts that I didn't receive his July 31, 2017 letter with the fee notification. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But then he holds me to the terms of that letter to which he had agreed that I hadn't receive. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">More to the point, he didn't address the root of the matter: the $5 cap in my records request.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Last month I circled back to the situation and filed two investigation requests. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">One was with the FOIA Ombudsman at the Office of Government Information Services asking for a determination if the processing of my request was in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. (Coincidentally, <a href="https://foia.blogs.archives.gov/2021/01/14/getting-to-know-the-foia-advisory-committee-roger-andoh/">Mr. Andoh currently serves on that group's advisory committee</a>.) </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">That office is reviewing my request. I'll publish the results as available.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_-yDkjiEFqM/YYrK-teC1rI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/xo63dcU4chItHiLexBNsYfrVlvVKY7I5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s751/2021-11-09_142354.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="259" data-original-width="751" height="231" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_-yDkjiEFqM/YYrK-teC1rI/AAAAAAAAG3Q/xo63dcU4chItHiLexBNsYfrVlvVKY7I5QCLcBGAsYHQ/w674-h231/2021-11-09_142354.gif" width="674" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">My other request went to Mr. Andoh's boss, CDC Chief Operating Officer Robin Bailey Jr., in the form of an employee review. That is, I wanted to know if Mr. Andoh's handling of the matter was in compliance with CDC employee guidelines and the Freedom of Information Act.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Also from my request: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since Mr. Andoh mishandled a case as simple and straightforward as mine, I'm concerned that I may not be the only example. With that in mind, I'd urge you to review his caseload in recent years to determine if other FOIA requests are being improperly processed.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>I courtesy copied Vesna Kurspahic who works as a liason to the CDC in the office of my congressional representative, Carolyn Bourdeaux. If I got the bum's rush, I could request a helping hand there.</span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yesterday afternoon I received this email:</span></p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Subject: request for employee review<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sent: Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:37 PM<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">From: Bailey, Robin (CDC/OCOO/OD) <s<a href="mailto:pu8@cdc.gov">pu8@cdc.gov</a>><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">To: Peter Heimlich <<a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a>><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cc: "<a href="mailto:vesna.kurspahic@mail.house.gov">vesna.kurspahic@mail.house.gov</a>" <vesna.kurspahic@mail.house.gov></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Mr. Heimlich,</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">After careful review, I am waiving the assessment of your 2017 FOIA request. I have made Mr. Andoh aware of my decision. Thank you for your patience.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Robin</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Robin D. Bailey, Jr.<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chief Operating Officer<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Office of the Chief Operating Officer|Office of the Director (OCOO/OD)<br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Here's my reply:</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Subject: request for employee review</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>From: Peter Heimlich <<a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a>></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Sent: Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:09 PM</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>To: "Bailey, Robin (CDC/OCOO/OD)" <<a href="mailto:spu8@cdc.gov">spu8@cdc.gov</a>></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Cc: <a href="mailto:vesna.kurspahic@mail.house.gov">vesna.kurspahic@mail.house.gov</a></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Robin Bailey, MA</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Chief Operating Officer</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>1600 Clifton Rd NE</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Atlanta, GA 30329</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Dear Mr. Bailey,</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Thank you for this.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>While I appreciate you waiving the wrongly-imposed fee, I requested an employee review of whether or not Mr. Andoh's handling of the matter was conducted according to FOIA and CDC employee guidelines. </div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>In my opinion, among other issues it needs to be determined if Mr. Andoh's mishandling of my FOIA request was an isolated case or if he has mishandled other FOIA requests.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Do you intend to conduct such a review? If not, to which departments may I file my request?</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Further, since you've waived the wrongly-imposed fee, would you please instruct the CDC's FOIA department to process my April 25, 2020 records request which was refused due to the wrongly-imposed fee?</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Thank you for your continued time/attention and I look forward to your reply.</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Sincerely,</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Peter M. Heimlich</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>REDACTED</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USA</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>ph: (678)322-7984</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>e-mail: peter.heimlich@gmail.com</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>website: http://medfraud.info</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>blog: http://the-sidebar.com</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>Twitter: https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div>bio: http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</div></span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'll update this post with any developments. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/4qb9fyb50zd4t82/PMH-RBailey+CDC+FOIA+fee+dispute+emails.pdf/file">Click here</a> for a pdf of all relevant correspondence and supporting documents.</span></p></span>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-73469196787808499272021-11-07T10:11:00.007-05:002024-01-10T15:22:12.935-05:00Compilation of reports/documents from medical & government organizations & (mostly) mainstream media reports about the "LifeVac," a modified sink plunger marketed as a choking rescue device (Long Island, NY) [UPDATED: 11/7/21]<p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nwFb3wp2J2g/XfjUPNWvdkI/AAAAAAAAFp4/eKoLwNo7xE420X0wTp3-zyGdQ1FZxmBJgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Lih%2Bassembling%2BLifeVacs.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="768" height="355" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nwFb3wp2J2g/XfjUPNWvdkI/AAAAAAAAFp4/eKoLwNo7xE420X0wTp3-zyGdQ1FZxmBJgCPcBGAYYCw/s640/Lih%2Bassembling%2BLifeVacs.jpeg" width="640" /></a><i>"Plumbers unclog pipes. If we stop and take a deep breath, and realize that's what we're dealing with, I went and found a plunger," (LifeVac developer Arthur) Lih said" (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">source</a>). Based on the above photo (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">source</a>), the sink plunger appears to be <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">this $3 gadget sold by Lowes</a>.</i></p><p><b>If I've missed any or if you have information to share, e-mail me at <a href="mailto:Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com">Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com</a></b></p><p>For information originating from Lifevac LLC (Nesconset, NY), <a href="https://lifevac.net/">click here</a> for the company's home page. Click the links for the websites of <a href="http://www.lifevac.eu/">LifeVac Europe</a> (North Devon, UK), <a href="https://lifevac.ca/">Lifevac Canada</a> (Mississauga), <a href="https://www.lifevac.net.au/">LifeVac Australia</a> (New South Wales), <a href="https://lifevac.life/">LifeVac Greece</a><span class="algo-summary">, <a href="https://lifevac.pl/kontakt">LifeVac Poland</a> (</span><span class="algo-summary">Stalowa Wola), and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/lifevacsa/about/?ref=page_internal">LifeVac South Africa</a> (</span><span class="algo-summary"><span class="_2iem">Klerksdorp).</span></span><br />
<br /><b>A. MEDICAL ORGANIZATIONS</b><br />
</p><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890">Executive Summary: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations</a> (ILCOR) by Nolan et al, Circulation, October 21, 2020:<div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Recently, manual suction devices (airway clearance devices) that use a vacuum to remove foreign bodies have become commercially available. These devices have not previously been reviewed by ILCOR and were included in this SysRev. The data in the peer-reviewed literature assessing the efficacy of suction-based airway clearance devices comprised just 1 case series of 9 adults, which the task force deemed insufficient to support the implementation of a new technology with an associated financial and training cost...The task force suggested that suction-based airway clearance devices should not be used routinely.</blockquote><div><p><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/349113977/East-Riding-of-Yorkshire-Council-UK-March-2017-newsletter-to-area-schools-re-expert-medical-review-by-National-Health-Service-hospital-of-Anti-Cho">East Riding of Yorkshire Council (UK) March 2017 newsletter</a> to area schools re: expert medical review by National Health Service hospital of "Anti Choking" Devices including the Lifevac:</p>
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(Guidance) has been obtained through the Councils Public Health team, in partnership with Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals (HEY), who have comprehensively reviewed the use of such devices particularly in a paediatric context.</div>
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It is recommended at this time that the device is not used until further evidence on suitability for paediatric use is published.<br /></div>
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<a href="https://www.resus.org.uk/about-us/news-and-events/rcuks-policy-use-airway-clearance-devices-choking-victims">Does the Resuscitation Council (UK) recommend the use of airway clearance devices (ACD) in the treatment of the choking victim</a><a href="https://www.resus.org.uk/about-us/news-and-events/rcuks-policy-use-airway-clearance-devices-choking-victims">?</a>, UK Resuscitation Council, January 2, 2018:<div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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Resuscitation Council UK is aware that several airway clearing
devices for the treatment of choking are now available in the UK. There
is insufficient evidence on the safety or effectiveness of these devices
for us to recommend their use, and we are concerned that the use of
these devices could delay established treatments for choking; for this
reason, Resuscitation Council UK does not support their use. <br />
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Appropriately trained healthcare professionals can already use
advanced techniques such as suction or laryngoscopy and forceps for
airway foreign body removal. We recommend that new airway clearance
devices should only be used by trained healthcare professionals as part
of a formal evaluation. </div>
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April 5, 2018 Swedish CPR Council report re: anti-choking devices by Henrik Wagner MD PhD, Jan Gelberg MD, Andreas Claesson RN PhD. <a href="https://www.hlr.nu/totalt-luftvagsstopp-och-nya-oprovade-produkter/">Click here</a> for original Swedish version; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hlr.nu%2Ftotalt-luftvagsstopp-och-nya-oprovade-produkter%2F">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate.<br />
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April 25, 2019 statement by the Spanish Council of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation re: anti-choking devices. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190619215449/https://www.cercp.org/noticias/noticias-del-cercp/628-noticia-20190426-1">Click here</a> for original Spanish version; <a href="https://web-archive-org.translate.goog/web/20190619215449/https://www.cercp.org/noticias/noticias-del-cercp/628-noticia-20190426-1?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate.<b><b> </b></b><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: normal; margin: 16px 0px 10px; outline: none; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">B. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS</b></div><p><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/414490837/1-27-16-letter-to-me-from-Karen-Hollowood-RN-of-the-NYS-Education-Dept-re-the-LifeVac-anti-choking-device">January 27, 2016 letter to me from Karen Hollowood RN of the NYS Education Dept.</a> re: the LifeVac & the agency's recommended best practices for choking rescue<br />
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<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/374520723/Aug-30-2017-determination-letter-from-UK-Medical-and-Healthcare-products-Regulatory-Agency-MHRA-re-LifeVac-anti-choking-device?campaign=VigLink&ad_group=xxc1xx&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate">August
30, 2017 determination letter from UK Medical and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) re: LifeVac anti-choking device</a> (via my Scribd account)<b> </b><br />
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<b>C. MEDIA REPORTS</b> </p><p><a href="https://abc7ny.com/health/father-creates-lifevac-as-tool-to-help-choking-victims/376430/">LifeVac developed to stop choking</a> by <span itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person">Kristin Thorne</span><time class="meta lastmodified">, ABC7 New York City, November 1, 2014</time></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="https://abc7ny.com/video/embed/?pid=376421" width="476"></iframe> </p><p>
<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/arthur-lih-long-island-inventor-s-lifevac-purchased-by-jericho-fire-department-1.10646582">Long Island inventor's 'LifeVac' anti-choking device purchased by fire department</a> by Tom Incantalupo, Newsday, July 16, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/brentwood-fire-department-purchases-30-lifevac-units-1.10886102">Brentwood Fire Department purchases 30 LifeVac units</a> by Tom Incantalupo, Newsday, September 24, 2015<br />
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<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/lindenhurst-school-district-purchases-lifevacs-1.11190375">Lindenhurst school district purchases LifeVacs</a> by Tom Incantalupo, Newsday, December 3, 2015 </div>
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<a href="https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/39/3/dtg-heimlich-vs-lifevac-in-schools-2015-01-15-bk.html">Heimlich<i> remover</i>! Son of ‘maneuver’ inventor wants investigation into anti-choking device at boro schools</a> by Allegra Hobbs, Brooklyn Paper, January 14, 2016<br />
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<a href="https://pix11.com/2016/01/18/new-potentially-life-saving-device-questioned-by-medical-watchdog/">New potentially life saving device questioned by medical watchdog</a> by Joe Mauceri, PIX11 TV News (NYC), January 18, 2016<br />
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<a href="https://pix11.com/2016/02/25/life-saving-invention-could-prevent-any-more-choking-deaths-of-children-in-school/" target="_blank">Life-saving invention could prevent any more choking deaths of children in school</a> by<span class="posted-time"> Kirstin Cole, PIX11 (NYC), February 25, 2016.</span> <br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1147111298652503">Sarasota Police Department using LifeVac anti-choking device</a> by investigative reporter Kate Flexter, ABC7 Sarasota, FL, April 7, 2016 which includes this clip:<br />
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<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">KF: The issue is the device has not technically been approved by the Food and Drug Administration because it doesn't have to be. The FDA tells ABC7 that LifeVac is registered as a "moderate risk device" which makes it exempt from the clearance and approval process. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">But some doctors we talked to said it should be tested more thoroughly and is potentially dangerous. We showed the training video for the device to the head of pediatrics at the Florida Hospital in Tampa, Dr. James Orlowski. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">JO: It seems that the pressure that they use before sucking back could potentially drive the object further down into the airway. <br /><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">KF: Dr. Orlowski says the pressure created by the device could potentially cause damage to other parts of the body in the process. <br /><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #660000;">JO: If it can hold up a bowling ball, it can probably do a lot of damage to the airway and to other organs.</span></b><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/14547013.welling-woman-broke-down-in-tears-when-one-of-her-medical-devices-saved-oaps-life/">Welling woman broke down in tears when one of her medical devices saved OAP's life</a><span class="author-name"> by Jake Bacon, London NewsShopper, </span><span class="author-name">June 9, 2016 </span><br />
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<span class="author-name"><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/rxp28u8ej9atnm7/16-6-14+North+Devon+Journal+LBrainwood.pdf">Life Vac anti-choking device designed in North Devon has just saved its first life</a> by Laura Brainwood, North Devon Journal, June 14, 2016 </span><br />
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<span class="author-name"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-new-devices-match-heimlich-to-stop-choking-1468242002">Can New Devices Match Heimlich to Stop Choking? LifeVac and Dechoker pose alternative to abdominal thrusts</a> by Laura Johannes, Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2016 (Paywalled) Phil Heimlich is my older brother -- PMH </span><br />
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<span class="author-name">Two new easy-to-use devices work like plungers to suck out obstructions in the airway, providing another option if standard treatment—such as abdominal thrusts developed in 1974 by Henry Heimlich—fail to clear the airway, say the companies who sell them.<br />
<br />...Both the Dechoker, $89.95, and the LifeVac, $69.95, have a plastic mask that provides a seal over the mouth and nose while suction is provided. The Dechoker looks like a large syringe, while the LifeVac’s plunger is shaped like a small accordion.</span></blockquote>
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...Skeptics include Dr. Heimlich, now 96. Such a device may not be handy in the “unexpected instance that a person chokes,” Dr. Heimlich, a retired thoracic surgeon from Cincinnati, says in a statement released by his son, Phil Heimlich. “Any action that delays use of the Heimlich maneuver or complicates the rescue can be deadly.” </span></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.healthnewsreview.org/review/kudos-to-wsj-for-giving-thorough-look-at-devices-for-choking-victims/">Kudos to WSJ for giving thorough look at ‘Heimlich alternative’ devices for choking victims</a> by Susan Wei PhD, Dan Mayer MD & Joya Victory, Health News Review, July 18, 2016<br />
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<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/lifevac-signs-international-distribution-deal-1.12125095">LifeVac signs international distribution deal</a> by Ken Schachter, Newsday, August 3, 2016 <br />
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<a href="https://abc30.com/health/anti-choking-devices-give-piece-of-mind-but-dont-replace-heimlich-maneuver/1529600/">Anti-choking devices give piece of mind but don't replace Heimlich Maneuver</a> by Liz Harrison, ABC30 News (Fresno, CA), September 27, 2016<br />
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<a href="https://libn.com/2016/12/15/life-on-the-line/">A ‘last resort’ when life is on the line</a> by Claude Solnik, Long Island Business News, December 15, 2016 <br />
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<a href="https://www.newsday.com/business/inventor-of-lifevac-anti-choking-device-faces-fragmented-market-1.12752395">LifeVac anti-choking device’s inventor faces fragmented market</a> by David Reich-Hale, Newsday, December 18, 2016 <br />
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<a href="https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/rutherford/neighbors/rutherford-local-becomes-spokesperson-for-life-saving-device/698060/">Rutherford Local Becomes Spokesperson For Life-Saving Device</a> by Arthur Augustyn, Daily Voice (Rutherford, NJ), January 31, 2017<br />
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170210184048/https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/anti-choking-lifevac-kits-offered-to-east-riding-schools-by-hull-wyke-round-table/story-30126572-detail/story.html">Anti-choking LifeVac kits offered to East Riding schools by Hull Wyke Round Table</a> by Elizabeth Mackley, Hull Daily Mail, February 10, 2017<br />
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<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/htc287vhw2i98rj/HWRT_refund_letter_v2.pdf/file" target="_blank">Hull Wyke Round Table announcement letter cancelling the project and offering refunds to crowdfund donors</a>, May 15, 2017.<br />
<br />Two Men Say Anti-Choking Device Could Have Saved a Boy's Life by Bryant Clerkley, WKRG-TV (Pensacola, FL), September 28, 2017:<br />
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<br /><a href="https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/lifevac-donates-more-than-30-units-to-jackson-county-school/" target="_blank">LifeVac Donates More than 30 Units to Jackson County School</a> by Ashton Williams, WMBB-TV News (Panama City, FL), October 26, 2017<br />
<br />Mother Of Audi Anderson Says Lifevac Could Have Saved His Life by Bryant Clerkley, WKRG-TV News, November 2, 2017</div><div>
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<br /><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartbroken-dad-whose-daughter-6-11480599">Heartbroken dad whose daughter, 6, choked to death on grape says this simple device could have saved her life</a> by Tom Belger, The Mirror, November 7, 2017<br />
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<a href="http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=117428&headline=Grieving%20parents%20in%20plea%20to%20medical%20chiefs&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2017">Grieving parents in plea to medical chiefs</a> by Alex Jones, Cambrian News (Wales), November 8, 2017</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.picayuneitem.com/2017/12/creator-of-new-product-donates-devices-to-local-school-district-police-department/">Creator of new product donates devices to local school district, police department</a> by Victor Tun, Picayune Item (MS), December 9, 2017<br />
<br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xlmHUZWz0C4/XWvEEdZGLCI/AAAAAAAAFhA/C3656k-DIE8Clj_BrlqJRYDpuDSo6u4cQCLcBGAs/s1600/Sam%2BHay%2Bbio.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="741" height="244" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xlmHUZWz0C4/XWvEEdZGLCI/AAAAAAAAFhA/C3656k-DIE8Clj_BrlqJRYDpuDSo6u4cQCLcBGAs/s640/Sam%2BHay%2Bbio.jpg" width="640" /></a>
<a href="https://www.celebrityspeakers.com.au/dr-sam-hay/" target="_blank"><b>source</b></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.kidspot.com.au/health/family-health/first-aid/the-antichoking-device-that-parents-are-now-turning-to/news-story/79662154cbc04bbf4f39406ecfb62d36" target="_blank">The anti-choking device that parents are now turning to</a> by Dr. Sam Hay, Kidspot (Australia), March 20, 2018:<br />
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(That’s) where the <a href="https://www.lifevac.net.au/">LifeVac</a> comes in - a hand held device that works like a fancy drain plunger. <br />
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...(The) device is capable of producing a degree of suction that far exceeds those achievable by any first aid technique.<br />
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It makes sense. Plus, the good news is, it works.<br />
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...Look, it’s not foolproof, and it’s not without some (small) potential for injury in toddlers and babies. But faced with the devastating alternatives, I’d encourage parents to consider having one handy, and definitely giving it a go after first aid techniques have failed and the ambulance is on its way. </blockquote>
<a href="https://www.capegazette.com/article/johnson-orthodontics-donates-lifesaving-devices-local-schools/151903" target="_blank">Johnson Orthodontics donates lifesaving devices to local schools</a>, Cape Gazette, Cape Henlopen, DE, March 25, 2018 <br />
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<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/yeau9xbh5b335hg/2018+April+4+Australian+LifeVac+smear+campaign.pdf">Claim of Smear on Choke Device</a> by Anthony Klan, The Australian, April 4, 2018 <br />
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<a href="https://fox6now.com/2018/07/05/a-heimlich-alternative-wisconsin-medical-experts-say-anti-choking-device-needs-more-testing/">A Heimlich alternative? Wisconsin medical experts say anti-choking device needs more testing</a> by Bryan Polcyn, FOX6 News (Milwaukee, WI), July 5, 2018: <br />
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Not long after their son's death, the Bruegmann's learned about LifeVac. </blockquote>
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..."If I would've just had one of these, maybe (my son) would be here," Courtney Bruegmann said.<br />
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The Bruegmann's found the $70 device on Amazon...</blockquote>
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..."I'm not letting these kids keep dying," said Arthur Lih, the founder of LifeVac. </blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">
Lih says his device is a matter of simple physics. </blockquote>
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<b>"Plumbers unclog pipes. If we stop and take a deep breath, and
realize that's what we're dealing with, I went and found a plunger," Lih
said.</b></blockquote>
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...LifeVac claims to have mountains of evidence that the device works, including <a href="https://localtvwiti.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/01-medical-journals.pdf">articles</a>
published by the International Journal of Clinical Skills, the American
Journal of Gastroenterology, and the American College of Emergency
Physicians.</blockquote>
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But at least<b> two of those articles were authored by a doctor who is also Lih's sister</b>...</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.swnews4u.com/local/public-safety/parents-turn-loss-into-a-mission-to-save-others/">Parents turn loss into a mission to save others</a> by Erin Martin, Fennimore Times (Fennimore, WI), August 21, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/choking-victim-sherry-campbells-legacy-will-be-lifesaving-device-in-every-northern-ireland-school-37321896.html">Choking victim Sherry Campbell’s legacy will be lifesaving device in every Northern Ireland school</a> by Victoria Leonard, Belfast Telegraph, September 17, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.channel3000.com/news/fennimore-parents-turn-loss-into-life-saving-mission/846261872">Fennimore parents turn loss into life-saving mission</a> by Leah Linscheid, WISC-TV (Maidson, WI), November 5, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uk-takes-cautious-approach-to-irish-anti-choking-device-z72gf5ffh">UK takes cautious approach to Irish anti-choking device</a> by Colin Coyle, The Sunday Times (Ireland), November 19, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://fox6now.com/2018/12/19/1077745/?fbclid=IwAR3FYsNfm00iBheTkJB0yV8NKN74_0LP0lM3_UAfsU2Wg0f7QW1r5y8fPAA">‘Seems fair to recommend:’ State EMS doc approves anti-choking device as backup option</a> by Bryan Polcyn, FOX6 News, December 19, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.kpvi.com/news/local_news/idaho-falls-woman-advocates-for-putting-life-vac-anti-choking/article_00e9c296-3498-11e9-872e-e7e7f9332136.html">Idaho Falls woman advocates for putting "Life Vac" anti-choking devices in local schools</a> by Rachel Cox-Rosen, KPVI-TV (Idado Falls, ID), February 19, 2019<br />
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<a href="https://www.postregister.com/news/local/advocates-say-anti-choking-device-saved-two-lives-in-idaho/article_599c381c-f1af-5f8a-a09a-08196b0d2062.html">Advocates say anti-choking device saved two lives in Idaho</a> by Brennan Kaufman, The Post Register (Idaho Falls, ID), January 8, 2019<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraphherald.com/news/public_announcements/article_9d725e64-9c85-5d10-8745-d42dd38471fe.html">After son's choking death, Fennimore family hopes to prevent further tragedy</a> by Bennet Goldstein, Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA), February 16, 2019:</div><div class="inner"><br />
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<b>Courtney Bruegmann</b>: After we lost our 9-month-old son in a choking incident, <span>we had actually went to our family doctor and kind of spoke with her, </span>like, y'know, is there anything out there that can try to, y'know, prevent this from happening or help in a situation? And <span>she did some research online and came across the LifeVac. </span></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.channel3000.com/news/this-family-lost-their-baby-to-a-choking-accident-they-want-the-state-to-help-save-other-lives/1073810763">This family lost their baby to a choking accident. They want the state to help save other lives; Bruegmanns push for safety grant for schools</a> by Leah Linscheid, WISC-TV, April 30, 2019:<br />
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Matt and Courtney Bruegmann lost their baby boy, Camynn, when he choked on a bouncy ball two years ago. In the years since, they’ve poured their time and souls into researching the LifeVac...<br />
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Since Camynn’s death, more than a dozen law enforcement agencies have purchased their own. The Bruegmanns bought several themselves for the Lancaster School District, where Courtney grew up. <br />
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They presented the donations to the superintendent Tuesday. <br />
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...Rep. Travis Tranel (R-Cuba City) was on hand for the donation. He’s teaming up with Sen. Howard Marklein (R- Spring Green) to put together a grant program to help more school districts buy LifeVacs. </blockquote>
Entrepreneur invents life-saving device, FOX & Friends, FOX News, May 5, 2019<br />
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<a href="https://hipertextual.com/2019/05/dispositivos-anti-atragantamiento-mucho-periodismo-servil-ningun-ensayo-clinico/">Anti-choking devices: a lot of servile "journalism" and no clinical trials</a> (Spanish) by <a href="https://twitter.com/shora?lang=en">Esther Samper</a>, Hipertextual, May 26, 2019; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fhipertextual.com%2F2019%2F05%2Fdispositivos-anti-atragantamiento-mucho-periodismo-servil-ningun-ensayo-clinico%2F">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate<br />
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<a href="https://www.redaccionmedica.com/virico/noticias/-que-es-lifevac-y-por-que-ha-insultado-a-los-medicos-espanoles--1313">What is LifeVac and why has it "insulted" Spanish doctors?</a> (Spanish) by<span class="notranslate"> Nuria Fdez Gámez &</span> <span class="notranslate"> Laura Díez, Redaccion Medica (Sanitarias), </span><span class="notranslate">June 1, 2019; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.redaccionmedica.com%2Fvirico%2Fnoticias%2F-que-es-lifevac-y-por-que-ha-insultado-a-los-medicos-espanoles--1313">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate</span><br />
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<a href="http://neirad.org/5140/breaking-news/sometimes-you-have-to-do-the-impossible-just-to-prove-nothing-is/?fbclid=IwAR1e9A22tytV5IahP47CWXZpjdWOJ416TcEE5CcjhkxEMaEm544LPyU1XaI">Sometimes You Have To Do The Impossible Just To Prove Nothing Is -- Entrepreneur Arthur Lih invented a product that is saving lives</a> by Lexi Dansker, Neirad, Darien (CT) High School, June 3, 2019<br />
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<a href="https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/choking-baby-saved-device-brought-16404160">Choking baby saved by device brought into Northern Ireland after death of Sherry Campbell; One-year-old Killian was choking on a piece of carrot when his mum used the LifeVac and saved him</a> by Jilly Beattie, Belfast Live, June 10, 2019 <br />
<br />LifeVac saves 1-year-old boy from Lafayette by staff reporter Randall Newsome, WISH-TV News, Indianapolis, IN, June 13, 2019 includes interviews with the infant's mother, Morgan Hendrick-Luse (per comment below posted on Youtube aka Morgan Hendricks Luce-Araya) of Lafayette, IN; her mother, Toni Hendricks of Oakwook, IL; and LifeVac creator Arthur Lih of Massapequa, NY. <br />
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<a href="http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=129243">School presented with anti-choking devices</a> by Dylan Davies, deputy news editor, Cambrian News, Ceredigion, Wales, June 21, 2019; also see my August 17, 2016 blog item, <a href="http://www.the-sidebar.com/2016/08/since-january-choking-death-and-three.html">Since January, a choking death and three near-fatal choking incidents apparently occurred at a small nursing home in Wales -- company executives aren't answering my questions, so I've asked oversight agencies to investigate</a>.<br />
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<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2019/06/23/anti-choking-device-is-saving-lives/#68635c8c7ce3">(LifeVac) Anti-Choking Device Is Saving Lives</a> by UCLA Professor of Medicine Nina L. Shapiro MD<span _ngcontent-c23="" class="contrib-byline-type"> (and co-author of</span><span _ngcontent-c23="" class="contrib-byline-type"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hype-Doctors-Medical-Exaggerated-Claims/dp/1250149304/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=">HYPE: A Doctor's Guide to Medical Myths, Exaggerated Claims, and Bad Advice - How to Tell What's Real and What's Not</a>), Forb</span>es.com, June 23, 2019 <br />
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But sometimes, despite best efforts, these (anti-choking) maneuvers don't work. Now there are other options available, especially while waiting for emergency first responders. A lucky mom in Northern California is all too familiar with this. Crystal, who requested her last name not be used,* is a mom of an 11-month-old and two older children. When her oldest was a toddler, she had a choking incident. Thankfully, all turned out fine, but ever since then, Crystal has been acutely aware of potential choking risks. When she was pregnant with her youngest, she was shopping around for safety items and came across a <a href="https://lifevac.net/">LifeVac,</a> a non-powered handheld suction device to remove foreign objects from the airway of a choking victim.<br />
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...Suddenly she heard a strange gurgling noise from that room, and her worst fear had come true. "She was choking. I ran over to her, and I thought I saw something sharp in her throat, and since I saw it, I tried to grab it." But then the baby gasped and the object was gone-- out of view, and now completely blocking the airway. "I tried back blows, but it was stuck." Her older daughter called 911 right away. Crystal kept trying back blows, abdominal thrusts, but "her lips were turning blue. Nothing was working." She then remembered that the device she dug out from her closet for the family trip was still in her suitcase. She ran to grab it, and used it on her baby. It took two tries, then "out popped a plastic piece [from a thick plastic bag clasp]." The baby's lips turned pink, she started to cry, and soon after, was puzzled why her mother looked so distressed. The paramedics arrived, checked the baby, and deemed she was well-- her breathing was normal, her lungs were clear <br />
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When it comes to safety, you really never can be too sure. As Crystal has told countless friends and family, both before this event, and more so subsequently, "Don't think it won't happen to you. You just never know."</blockquote>
* Testimonial letter apparently signed by Crystal Houston of Pittsburg, California describing a May 30, 2019 choking incident, the rescue of her 10-month-old daughter, Amarianna Robinson, using the LifeVac and the response by paramedics (via <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lifevacaustralia/posts/2570634682955449?__xts__[0]=68.ARAARng61K4EKfwMZTM8XnJRVs2y_xv2l-sXImGMsJ1wgdm9H7SZXYk4ShGwzUlhwSHZ3Ff06kVHBay3iV_T1yVCr28khAspx9AoW4PHwTh5BDJcRzF1XBdKaTCeud2wpsH78PlRrlRpb3SkrmqEMkJLdKGwTtvVXSZ-diU91FJcjVXtp4TR_uwl-P-mtwS21a4CMv8sd9uKSblOXdGHMFYTK7V_jx24wUshTwOwQnAzVVXat8LU0g3DaHLekobx862FAQBoK9fZgmdHrsAhRgHc4jPeShf_lXuWjJFbEc4ZEalm-Ha23-4YfjoopkNfO_rUKsIYBObWz1j12xY1nFX5pHOCR30dvOPqKzYSfYK61bNk0Ob1PA6UdXcjtJtCMhROPGjSBqVpQziWOhwg2_m_u6EYzUqNbNpHGkJWeKVtt1SyKWUBncF-rkQZojVOAhPXhtD8-6O8VxvGcP9ePnUZd3tTE7K72RLn6DkCuYWBGbrVbb4kYz-Wug&__tn__=H-R">a June 22, 2019 Facebook post</a> by LifeVac Australia)<br />
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<a href="http://www.telegraphherald.com/news/tri-state/article_4ffa2b3e-ac88-5ea4-ba2f-42c70567ade0.html?fbclid=IwAR0NJJIlAhni0Qs3_lRBFPb1wHog8kGbo74APt5COHdiM8k1qxFLXDjU2EI">Fennimore (WI) family advocates for state grants to install choking rescue devices in schools </a>by Bennet Goldstein, Dubuque, IA Telegraph Herald, June 25, 2019<br />
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A Fennimore family is urging state lawmakers to back a legislative proposal that would allocate funding for the acquisition of choking-rescue devices for schools.<br />
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...The bill would allocate up to $500,000 to provide grants to public, private and tribal elementary and secondary schools for the purchase of the devices.<br />
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The proposal was introduced by Wisconsin Rep. Travis Tranel, R-Cuba City, and Sen. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, at the urging of the Bruegmanns.<br />
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“This seems like a simple device that wouldn’t be difficult to put into schools,” Tranel said.<br />
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...The Bruegmanns believe the boy’s death could have been prevented had they and emergency service workers had more tools at their disposal, such as a rescue device known as the LifeVac.<br />
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...In addition to donating several LifeVac units to area schools and the Fennimore Volunteer Rescue Squad, the Bruegmanns are advocating for the placement of choking-rescue devices in each of Wisconsin’s more than 2,000 schools. </blockquote>
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<a href="https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/madison/news/2019/07/09/family-pushes-for-anti-choking-devices-in-schools-after-tragedy" target="_blank">Family pushes for anti-choking devices in schools after tragedy</a> by Anthony DaBruzzi, SpectrumNews1 (Madison, WI) July 8, 2019: <br />
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Looking to spare others from their painful experience, the couple researched anti-choking devices...</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/simple-devon-invention-saved-life-3075598" target="_blank">The simple Devon invention that saved the life of 11-month-old girl and dozens of others</a> by Joel Cooper, DevonLive, July 11, 2019: <br />
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An invention developed by a family run business in Devon has saved the lives of 31 people, including an 11-month-old baby girl.<br />
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Amarannia had been playing in her living room when she picked up a piece of plastic and put it in her mouth.<br />
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Her mother suddenly heard a strange gurgling noise from the living room and her worst fears were confirmed when she came in to find Amarannia choking. <br />
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But luckily she had access to a LifeVac, a piece of equipment that was developed in a North Devon village and is now use across the world. <br />
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...Another example of the LifeVac being there when it mattered was the case of one-year-old Killian who started choking while eating some carrots.<br />
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Killian started to turn red and then purple due to lack of oxygen and back blows, due to his age, were unsuccessful. <br />
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LifeVac was then used by his mother Morgan with the pediatric mask which dislodged the carrot on the first application. <br />
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<b>Killian was taken to hospital</b> due to the ordeal so that he could have an examination. <b>He was checked over by a doctor</b> and returned home with no adverse effects from the choking ordeal. <br />
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Amarannia and Killian are just two of <b>31 people whose lives have been saved by the LifeVac device. </b><br />
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The product was the idea of American Arthur Lih, who co-developed it with Eric Banagan, who lives in Combe Martin.</blockquote>
Kids' lemonade stand raises money for life-saving device by Briella Tomassetti, FOX5 NYC, July 15, 2019: <br />
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So far, <b>about 30 schools on Long Island have added the Life Vac to their safety kits. </b><br />
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The life-saving tool has been placed in more than 200 schools across the nation.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.sharonherald.com/news/local_news/woman-donates-choking-aids/article_d5b0750a-c16b-11e9-93c4-57e27b485c33.html" target="_blank">Woman donates choking aids</a> by staff reporter Melissa Klaric, The Herald (Sharon, PA), August 18, 2019 (emphasis added): <br />
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(Jamie Mattocks) donated five LifeVac Choking Aids to the Mercer (PA) Police Department and the borough. The devices cost $70 each.<br />
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...The Mercer resident also donated 10 aids to the Mercer East End Fire Department.<br />
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(Mattocks) was contacted by the inventor of the LifeVac Choking Aid, Arthur Lih, of Massapequa, N.Y..<br />
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...Mattocks also donated a LifeVac Choking Aid to Mercer Elementary.<br />
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“My goal is to get the LifeVac into all the schools in the county,” Mattocks said.<br />
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She is also going to reach out to the ambulance companies, who do not carry the devices.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/12/05/sarasota-county-school-district-gets-new-devices-that-could-help-choking-child/" target="_blank">Sarasota County School District gets 150 new devices that could help a choking child</a> by <span class="font-bold">Taylor Torregano</span>, WWSB-TV (Sarasota, FL), <span class="timestamp"> December 4, 2019: </span></div>
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The Sarasota County School District just received a donation of 150 LifeVacs - an apparatus used to help save someone who is choking. <br />
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The district is calling it another tool in their toolbox to address a nationwide issue. <br />
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...“We were approached by a parent at one of our elementary schools whose daughter had a choking incident and she wondered if we were familiar with the device and if we would be interested in obtaining them for the schools," said Suzanne Dubose, supervisor of health services for the Sarasota County School District.<br />
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LifeVac took it one step further, offering to donate 150 devices, which were just received about a week ago. <br />
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Dubose said before they start using them, they’ll meet in a couple of weeks to train with the nurses and student resource officers, but even then, the Heimlich maneuver will still be their first response. <br />
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“If student or staff becomes non-responsive, our response at that point is compression, CPR, per protocol and it’s evidence based," Dubose explained. "The LifeVac, if it’s brought into a situation, can absolutely be used because again, another tool in the tool box.” <br />
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The LifeVac is a portable suction device used to clear an upper airway obstruction. It has faced criticism in the past from doctors who said there isn’t enough research on if it could do more harm than good.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.fox13news.com/news/150-anti-choking-devices-donated-to-sarasota-schools?fbclid=IwAR0PhTOq-KXwkfSa_7neAYairlkxV9OMcmYQiQRZglSSONsMoMHhJzf9daM" target="_blank">150 anti-choking devices donated to Sarasota schools</a> by Kimberly Kuizon, FOX13 News (Tampa, FL), December 17, 2019:<br />
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<br /><a href="https://www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2019-12-16/polemica-productos-antiatragantamiento-colegios_2377104/">The controversial 'trachea unblockers' that are already in schools and residences</a> by Maria Zuil, El Confidencial (Madrid, Spain), December 16, 2019</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/news/cisd-receives-choking-preventable-devices-as-donation/article_ba701c76-2103-11ea-8cc5-27cd1e4f3558.html" target="_blank">CISD receives choking preventable devices as donation</a> by Ashley Rose, Cleburne (TX) Times-Review, December 18, 2019<br />
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Students at Cleburne (Independent School District) are now protected against choking.<br />
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The CISD board of trustees received a donation of LifeVAc kits from Pinnacle Bank during Monday night’s meeting.<br />
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CISD Lead Nurse Christi Gregory said each campus will now have a life saving kit, which includes three LifeVacs and a practice device to keep students from choking.<br />
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Pinnacle Regional President Tim Whitlock, Branch President Amber Witte and the founder/CEO of LifeVac, Arthur Lih, were present at the meeting to give the donation. <br />
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“What Mr. Whitlock has done is he challenged all Pinnacle Banks in Texas to purchase these LifeVac machines or devices for their school districts,” Gregory said. “He has made that challenge so maybe other community people will do that and all Texas schools will have this life saving device.”</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.27east.com/southampton-press/east-quogue-wife-mother-raises-funds-to-buy-anti-choking-devices-in-husbands-memory-1677020/" target="_blank">East Quogue (NY) Wife, Mother Raises Funds To Buy Anti-Choking Devices In Husband’s Memory</a> by Kitty Merrill, February 11, 2020, Southampton (NY), 27East (Southampton Press):
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(The) Musso family is working to raise money to make sure that every ambulance company, school, day care center and police car in the region has a life-saving device known as a LifeVac.<br />
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...Ms. Musso created a GoFundMe page in memory of her husband of 30-plus years and is using the money to purchase the airway clearance devices, then donating them to schools from William Floyd - - which serves the contiguous communities of Shirley, Mastic, Mastic Beach, and Moriches -- to the Montauk School.<br />
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...Schools in Montauk, Southampton, Tuckahoe, East Quogue, East Hampton and Hampton Bays have already received them, she said.<br />
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...“We are grateful to Laura and her son, Dylan, for their donation of three LifeVac systems for our cafeteria,” Superintendent of Schools Lars Clemensen said. “Out of a crisis comes an opportunity. And the service that Laura and Dylan are giving to the region as a result of their own experiences will help make us all safer in our schools.”<br />
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Ms. Musso also wants to make sure area fire departments and police departments have the devices.<br />
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She recently spoke to Southampton Town Police Chief Steven Skrynecki, whom she said was “absolutely wonderful.”<br />
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...“The Southampton Town Police Department applauds Laura Musso’s efforts to see that all first responders are trained and equipped to clear an obstructed airway as quickly as possible,” Chief Skrynecki said on Friday...We are researching the product and anticipate incorporating it into the first aid equipment available to our officers in the field.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Jennifer Glenn case (College Station, TX) & reporter Jeff Prince's "disappeared" Fort Worth Weekly story</b></span></div>
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Via now-deleted v.1 dated February 19, 2020 via The Wayback Machine: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200219215316/https://www.fwweekly.com/2020/02/19/suction-friction/">Suction Friction; An anti-choking device comes to North Texas schools despite questions</a> by Jeff Prince, Fort Worth Weekly. Original URL <a href="https://www.fwweekly.com/2020/02/19/suction-friction">https://www.fwweekly.com/2020/02/19/suction-friction</a> now leads to a 404 page (information deleted from re-published February 22 version is in bold): <br />
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Last summer, Quade <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Glenn</b></span> was sucking on a Lemonhead hard candy when it lodged in his throat. His face turned red. He couldn’t breathe. His mother, Jennifer <span style="color: #990000;"><b>Glenn</b></span>, was in another room but heard her daughter asking Quade if he was OK. The mother of three kids knew what to do. Her father taught CPR for years as a firefighter in Kennedale, and Jennifer was trained long ago.</blockquote>
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This time, however, back blows and abdominal thrusts didn’t work on
5-year-old Quade. A desperate Jennifer tried Plan C –– a LifeVac device.</blockquote>
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Jennifer had purchased the LifeVac more than a year earlier but had never used it.</blockquote>
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...Last week, Jennifer, <span style="color: #990000;"><b>husband Blake Glenn</b></span>, and their children invited me into their home and explained how everything went down that day.</blockquote>
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...Around that time, Jennifer received a call from someone she knew at the <span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Cleburne Times-Review</i></b></span> telling her that “some weird guy” had contacted the paper to say LifeVac might have paid Jennifer to make her claims.<br />
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The man’s name was Peter Heimlich.<br />
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...In January, I began corresponding with Peter Heimlich after an article in the <span style="color: #990000;"><b><i>Cleburne Times-Review</i></b></span> described how Pinnacle donated the LifeVacs (to area schools).</blockquote>
Via re-published, re-written v.2 dated February 22, 2020 which fails to inform readers of the alterations, <a href="https://www.fwweekly.com/2020/02/22/suction-friction/">Suction Friction; An anti-choking device comes to North Texas schools despite questions</a> by Jeff Prince, Fort Worth Weekly, February 22, 2020:<br />
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Last summer, <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Quade</b></span> was sucking on a Lemonhead hard candy when it lodged in his throat. His face turned red. He couldn’t breathe. His mother, <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Jennifer</b></span>, was in another room but heard her daughter asking Quade if he was OK.<br />
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...Jennifer - <span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>who asked that the family’s last name be withheld for security reasons</b></span></u></span>...<i>[See videos and graphics below in which Ms. Glenn and LifeVac freely use her and her son's complete name.]</i><br />
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...Last week, Jennifer, <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>her husband</b></span>, and their children invited me into their home and explained how everything went down that day.<br />
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...She wanted to share the incident on Facebook, but her husband was apprehensive. He isn’t a fan of social media.</blockquote>
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“He didn’t understand why I felt the need to share it,” Jennifer
said. “I’m like, ‘Babe, if our story could help somebody else in that same situation, when they can’t get [stuck food] out, I would feel so good about that.’ As a mom, I want to know what’s good –– the best car seat, whatever.”</blockquote>
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He agreed. The post went up. Jennifer couldn’t believe the response.</blockquote>
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“It kind of went viral,” she said. “It went crazy.”</blockquote>
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Her Facebook page is private, and friends asked if they could share the post on their public pages. Jennifer agreed after removing Quade’s photo. <i>[See videos and graphics below in which Ms. Glenn and LifeVac LLC display Quade's photo]</i></blockquote>
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Around that time, Jennifer received a call from someone she knew at <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>a local paper</b></span>. </blockquote>
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...In January, I began corresponding with Peter Heimlich after an article in <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>a Cleburne paper</b></span> described how Pinnacle donated the LifeVacs.</blockquote>
December 20, 2019 video/audio interview with Jennifer Glenn (using her full name) of College Station, TX, about her son Quade's July 2019 choking incident with <span class="st">Tonya Johnson</span>, JoCo Community Radio, "The Voice of Johnson County, TX." In the 25-minute segment, Ms. Glenn (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/jenniferglenn.photography/about/?ref=page_internal">a self-described "lifestyle photographer"</a>) discusses choking rescue protocols, the LifeVac, and LifeVac developer Arthur Lih's visit with her family that week.<br />
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(5:45) Ms. Glenn says she first learned about the LifeVac while doing research to show "Blake, my husband. And a LifeVac ad popped up...I'm a researcher. I research everything before I buy anything." </blockquote>
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(6:45) After describing how she purchased a LifeVac on Amazon, "When babysitters would come over, I'd be like, "Oh, here's the LifeVac. Here are instrictions. If you need to use it, this is here if they choke on something and you can't get it out."</blockquote>
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(9:00) After describing the choking incident (in which she says, "Everything came up"), Ms. Glenn says "All (her) kids witnessed it...Ever since then my mission has been to tell parents about LifeVac" </blockquote>
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(10:20) Glenn: "(LifeVac) sent me a brand new unit since (Quade) had -- I know this is pretty gross for radio -- he had thrown up everything inside there. That shouldn't have happened, but."</blockquote>
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(13:20) "It just happened at the end of July...I know my son Quade's story has been shared thousands of times on Facebook and it's because I took to Facebook the day it happened...I wanted to tell everyone about it." </blockquote>
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(14:50 ) "I really think (purchasing the LifeVac) was a God thing. I really do. Because I went back and forth on buying it..Do I really need to spend $70-something dollars on this?...Then I thought about it. I'm like, You know, even if it sit sits there and collects dust, it's the security of knowing that I have it. I can take it with me. And I do. I have a travel unit now in my car."</blockquote>
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(17:00) "I'd recommend everybody to go to (LifeVac's) website)...You can read all the peer-reviewed journals. That's important to me...You can watch the cadaver videos. They did a lot of cadaver testing because, you know, when you think about something like this it's an emergency situation, you cannot, like, re-enact that. It's unethical, too." <br />
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(18:00) After providing directions how viewers/listeners may purchase a LifeVac, Ms. Glenn says, "I definitely think that needs to be a stocking stuffer" <br />
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(18:30) "(This week LifeVac representatives flew here and) got to meet Quade." </blockquote>
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(19:45) "Everybody needs (a LifeVac), definitely...anybody in nursing home care, their day cares...(Pinnacle Bank's) mission now is to try to get these in all school districts with Pinnacle Banks. They're going to try to fund them so that every school can have them."</blockquote>
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(21:30) "We are just spreading through Johnson County (schools) and beyond...(LifeVacs) should be like epi pens, it should be like defibrillators, they should be there...Of course, all of our friends have bought them. We've given them to our grandparents who watch our children. We've gifted them to chuch. So you've got to think about all the places where your kids spend time." </blockquote>
Via v.2 of <a href="https://www.fwweekly.com/2020/02/22/suction-friction/">the Fort Worth Weekly article by Jeff Prince</a>, "In October (2019, (Jennifer Glenn) appeared on what might be described as an infomercial
alongside LifeVac inventor Arthur Lih on a news channel broadcast in New
York." Here are two of those paid videos produced by WPIX-TV: <br />
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(1:00 ) Jennifer Glenn: "The first time I put (the LifeVac on my son Quade), he pushed it away. I think it scared him, the suction. But the second time I got in and got it out, <b>he sat up and threw up everything, including the candy and the chips and everything he'd eaten that day.</b> [Emphasis added.]<b><br /></b></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.lifevac.eu/lifevac-saves-32nd-life-5-year-old-boy-quade-choked-on-a-lemon-head/">source</a>
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/preventchoking/photos/a.1148982265263621/1451152465046598/?type=3&theater">source</a>
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<a href="https://www.wfmj.com/story/41821535/mercer-american-legion-donates-lifevacs-to-local-schools-first-responders?fbclid=IwAR0w0fVpKX0NrEd5urWA3Pm-MAcI-jgZpzc9ehJYi95APzYJkNtXe_Cq5UE">Mercer (PA) American Legion donates LifeVacs to local schools, first responders; The Mercer American Legion Riders bought 27 Life Vac anti-choking devices they plan to donate to local schools along with police and other first responders</a> by Matt Stone, WFMJ-TV (Youngstown, OH NBC affiliate), February 26, 2020: <br />
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The Life Vac was invented by Arthur Lih 9 years ago. He says it's helped save at least 54 people. He says the Vac is best used when the Heimlich doesn't work or when someone is in a wheelchair. Lih says the device is FDA registered.<br />
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"You go through the same scrutiny but you are registered not approved. You can't approve everything."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.sharonherald.com/news/american-legion-riders-donate-lifevac-choking-prevention-devices/article_f504c180-5974-11ea-9879-9b93503d9241.html?fbclid=IwAR3mk81CPTugPxmPVpBH1uD4Ni7d2UrIWrDVkbX0NAJutfh-dDdPXr5LZD0" target="_blank">American Legion Riders donate LifeVac choking prevention devices</a> by Melissa Klaric, Sharon (PA) Herald, February 27, 2020: <br />
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With Harlowe Mattocks leading the effort, the (American Legion) Riders raised $1,200 to
purchase 27 LifeVacs. The group donated them Wednesday to the Creative
Learning Christian School, Jefferson Township police and fire
departments, Lakeview School District, Mercer Area School District,
Mercer County Career Center, Children’s Aid Society, Sunshine Preschool,
Mercer Methodist Church and Mercer American Legion.</blockquote>
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...Hendley Hoge, superintendent of Lakeview schools, attended the luncheon to accept Lakeview’s LifeVac.<br />
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“Going back to school today, I’ll feel more comfortable and at ease now that we have these,” said Hoge, a former Mercer superintendent. “So thank you for this.”</blockquote><a href="https://www.wtkr.com/news/poquoson-police-nonprofit-fudraises-to-buy-devices-for-officers-to-save-choking-victims" target="_blank">Poquoson (VA) nonprofit raises funds to buy devices for officers to save choking victims</a> by Kofo Lasaki, WTKR-TV News (Hampton Roads, VA), September 10, 2020<div> </div><div><a href="https://abc7ny.com/health/inventor-of-choking-aid-credited-with-saving-70+-lives/6723406/">Inventor of choking aid device credited with saving more than 70 lives</a> by Kristin Thorne, ABC7 New York City, October 5, 2020</div><br /><div>
</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="https://abc7ny.com/video/embed/?pid=6797391" width="476"></iframe> </div><div><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/lifevac-arthur-lih-choking-invention-device"><br /></a></div><div><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/lifevac-arthur-lih-choking-invention-device">LifeVac CEO Arthur Lih invents device to stop choking: ‘I had to do something’</a> by
<span><span>Roman Chiarello, FOX News Health, December 23, 2020. Includes this same-day FOX & Friends video interview with on-air personality Brian Kilmeade: </span></span></div><div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span>Arthur Lih Interview with Curtis Sliwa, WABC Radio (NYC), January 28, 2021:
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<a href="https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/19121797.call-lifevac-device-child-settings-choking-emergencies/?fbclid=IwAR1sYiS6eBEE634qgsf34gLQvN60QKgxl4IAS0Mp6AKMdQ6T33PQC6ho1_Y">Call for LifeVac device in child settings for choking emergencies</a> by Nathan Louis, Watford (UK) Observer, February 26, 2021:</p></div></div><p></p><blockquote><p>More than a thousand people have signed a petition calling for a
medical device to be made readily available in a choking emergency.</p><p>Craig Grant set up the petition shortly after the tragic death of two-year-old Sadie Salt, who passed away in hospital in November after
choking on a sausage at her nursery in Radlett.</p><p>The petition is being supported by Sadie’s family, and Mr Grant believes Sadie’s death was "potentially preventable" if her nursery had a device called a LifeVac.</p></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UEkX5SF3NGw/YGOH5YMERrI/AAAAAAAAGWo/ztQnemumx5MVxkbsvwkyYOMPy6BruWOtQCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/2021-03-30_161542.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="696" height="229" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UEkX5SF3NGw/YGOH5YMERrI/AAAAAAAAGWo/ztQnemumx5MVxkbsvwkyYOMPy6BruWOtQCLcBGAsYHQ/w507-h229/2021-03-30_161542.JPG" width="507" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://wabcradio.com/episode/heidi-beth-felix-lifevac-3-15-21/?fbclid=IwAR1VAIBMrkqMDoU-CBntK7IfPhMDh4s91vX721mH0hiQFvf726xkMt92wwI">Interview with LifeVac LLC sales & marketing vice president Heidi Beth Felix</a>, The Rich Valdez Show, 77 WABC radio (NYC), March 15, 2021</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60MVrs0unKo/YGOJ0SE16wI/AAAAAAAAGWw/_Cr1SQHJRzgIs0aUZGu9P0XSqUxVBUYxwCLcBGAsYHQ/s680/2021-03-30_161410.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="680" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-60MVrs0unKo/YGOJ0SE16wI/AAAAAAAAGWw/_Cr1SQHJRzgIs0aUZGu9P0XSqUxVBUYxwCLcBGAsYHQ/w499-h209/2021-03-30_161410.JPG" width="499" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://wabcradio.com/episode/lifevac-changes-the-game-arthur-lih-03-26-2021/">LifeVac Changes the Game (interview with Arthur Lih)</a>, 77 WABC radio (NYC), Bernie & Sid, March 26, 2021<p></p><div><a href="https://gooddaysacramento.cbslocal.com/video/5436695-life-vac/?fbclid=IwAR37hnNA-vi2IScDh815LWUq2xU6i-acIinYCcQeOUpDsY57FARL9Fu19fw">Life Vac [sic]: A Device that could help save a life</a> by Jordan Segundo, Good Day Sacramento, KOVR-TV, March 28, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Y_ZkzJq-3s/YGeVuyNJIXI/AAAAAAAAGXE/mHJBtOc2Q8MlSk13QpdETqInwGGN1B4LACLcBGAsYHQ/s838/2021-04-02_174359.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="838" height="360" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Y_ZkzJq-3s/YGeVuyNJIXI/AAAAAAAAGXE/mHJBtOc2Q8MlSk13QpdETqInwGGN1B4LACLcBGAsYHQ/w641-h360/2021-04-02_174359.JPG" width="641" /></a></div><br /><div><a href="https://www.kwqc.com/2021/03/31/save-a-child-from-choking-with-lifevac/">Save A Child From Choking with LifeVac</a> by Debbie McFadden, KWQC-TV, Davenport, IA, March 31, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/507903578/St-Luke-s-Children-s-Hospital-Boise-ID-warns-parents-about-anti-choking-devices-5-131-21-press-release">St. Luke's Childrens Hospital (Boise, ID) warns parents about anti-choking devices</a>, media release, May 13, 2021</div><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DxPqbdxl8II" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/st-lukes-issues-warning-to-parents-about-anti-choking-devices/277-e26f2724-4326-45b4-8505-a1788810fb41" style="background-color: white;">St. Luke's issues warning to parents about anti-choking devices</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616;">, KTVB-TV (Boise), May 13, 2021</span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.13; margin: 15px 0px 30px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/st-lukes-warns-parents-about-anti-choking-devices-encourages-cpr-training/article_3e542676-7cc5-5d4e-a74e-5038f7084ac7.html">St. Luke's warns parents about anti-choking devices, encourages CPR training</a> by Erin Sheridan, Idaho Press, May 13, 2021</span></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.13; margin: 15px 0px 30px; position: relative; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #161616; font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.kmvt.com/2021/05/16/st-lukes-childrens-warns-of-reliance-on-anti-choking-devices/">St. Luke’s Children’s warns of reliance on anti-choking devices</a> by KMVT-TV News (Twin Falls) by Jack Schemmel, May 15, 2021</span></div><a href="https://www.abccolumbia.com/2021/09/20/10-month-old-saved-from-choking-inside-irmo-restaurant/">10-month-old saved from choking inside Irmo restaurant</a> by Josh Berry, ABC Columbia (SC), September 20, 2021<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/3l8fs6b3scb6ckq/Baby_The_State_September_26__2021.pdf/file">Stranger steps in to save baby choking in Irmo restaurant </a>by Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, SC), September 26, 2021<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6GPhLn30LTs/YYfqhhzsn9I/AAAAAAAAG10/iF9SMVnMmqs38l3sPt8BbQ6uxfWbWHzjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s769/2021-11-07_100059.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="496" data-original-width="769" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6GPhLn30LTs/YYfqhhzsn9I/AAAAAAAAG10/iF9SMVnMmqs38l3sPt8BbQ6uxfWbWHzjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w481-h310/2021-11-07_100059.gif" width="481" /></a></div><div><br /><i>Steve Perry, owner of the Eggs Up Grill in Irmo [SC], Jayne Koehler, Gabriel Koehler, 10 months, Jon Koehler and Major Hillard at the EggsUp Grill where Hillard [allegedly] saved Gabriel's life on Thursday. Hillard does not have a medical background, but has experience with saving his own children from choking. (Photo by Joshua Boucher, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">jboucher@thestate.com</a>)</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><div>The device doesn't require FDA approval, but Dr. David Ford, an emergency medicine director at Prisma Health, has followed scientific studies of such anti -choking devices. <b>While LifeVac has been successful in studies done on cadavers,</b> researchers have been limited in what they can do since they can't ethically "put something down someone's threat and then try to get it out."</div></div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><b>NOTE: Only the following two studies have tested the LifeVac on a single cadaver each; the first study reported positive results, the second study reported negative results. </b></div><div><br /></div>1) <a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/yg7ssdxuhzjiu1l/AJEM+LifeVac+cadaver+study+2016+March+23.pdf/file">Assessment of the LifeVac, an anti-choking device, on a human cadaver with complete airway obstruction</a>, published in the correspondence section of the March 23, 2016 issue of the American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and authored by:<br /><br />Mimi Juliano, MA, CCC-SLP, Visiting Nurse Services and Hospice of Suffolk, Northport, NY Corresponding author E-mail address: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">rnbmimi@aol.com</a><br /><br /></div><div>Robert Domingo, PHD Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders LIU Post, Nassau<br />University Medical Center, Farmingdale, NY<br /><br /></div><div>Mary S. Mooney, PT, DPT, Visiting Nurse Services & Hospice of Suffolk, Northport, NY<br /><br /></div><div>Alex Trupiano, E.M.T., Nassau County Police Department Emergency Ambulance Bureau, Nassau<br />County, NY</div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div>We performed an independent study to determine whether the anti-choking device, LifeVac, is capable of removing a food bolus from an obstructed airway when the potential for choking as a medical emergency exists...</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>This study was conducted at Fusion Solutions, a cadaver based training center in (Hicksville) New York. An unselected, recently diseased individual was employed in the study. The subject was a 71 year old, Caucasian female, 153 pounds, 65 inches with a Body Mass Index of 25. The paramedic technician [Trupiano] placed an adult LifeVac mask on the cadaver following operating guidelines to remove the lodged bolus. The author observed and recorded the success rate. It was noted on one trial that a second pull was required to ensure a tighter seal following an initial failed trial. This achieved increased suction and ensured removal of the simulated bolus. The LifeVac removed the bolus successfully 49/50 trials on the first trial...</div></div><div><div><br /></div></div><div><div>The LifeVac is non invasive and can be used by anyone, both medical personnel and laypersons alike. Results of this study suggest that the LifeVac can be included as part of the guidelines used for basic life support management of choking victims.</div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div>2) <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54f94694e4b0ab37e7017d32/t/606c7a4e31fe4179d5de8779/1617721937194/2021ABEAProgram_FINALBOOK.pdf">The Efficacy Of Two Commercially Available Devices To Relieve Acute Foreign Body Aspiration</a> by Apoorva T. Ramaswamy, Aaron Done, Roberto Solis, Lisa Evangelista, Peter Belafsky (University of
California Davis, CA), abstract presented at the April 2021 meeting of the American Bronchoesophagological Association.</div><div><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><div><b>Objective:</b> Evaluate the efficacy of two commercially available choking relief devices, the LifeVac
(LifeVac LLC, Nesconset, NY) and the Dechoker (Dechoker LLC, Wheat Ridge, CO). </div></div><div><div><b><br /></b></div></div><div><div><b>Methods: </b>A fresh cadaver (5’10’’, Caucasian male) was utilized for all trials. Whole grapes (Columbine
Vineyards red seedless), cashews (Aurora Organic) and barium-impregnated crackers (Premium Saltines)
were placed at the level of the true vocal folds under visualization with a flexible endoscope (Olympus,
Center Valley, PA). The choking relief devices were then used to manufacturer specifications by a PGY2
otolaryngology resident, a board eligible otolaryngologist and a novice volunteer. Each participant
conducted two trials with each device and food. Extent of foreign body extrication was evaluated by
flexible endoscopy and videofluoroscopy (GE Healthcare, Milwaukee, WI). </div></div><div><div><b><br /></b></div></div><div><div><b>Results:</b> Both the LifeVac and Dechoker failed to remove the cashews and grapes from the airway in all
trials. The barium moistened cracker was moved from C2 at the level of the glottis to C1 at the level of
the oropharynx. Use of the Dechoker resulted in gross injury to the tongue, and both products exerted
significant pressure on the tongue and soft palate that might cause edema in the clinical setting. </div></div><div><div><b><br /></b></div></div><div><div><b>Conclusion: </b>Although the devices did make appreciable progress in dislodgement of moistened saltines,
they were not effective in removing solid food material from the glottis and may result in injury. The
results suggest these products should not replace the Heimlich maneuver as the treatment of choice for
choking. </div></div></blockquote><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Ride for </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Life to raise awareness of choking h</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">azards</a> by Mike Crowley, Meadville Tribune, Oct 8, 2021:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Firefighters from Meadville Central Fire Department will be among the emergency personnel answering first aid questions and greeting visitors at the event, but the company will not be among the organizations receiving the choking rescue devices, according to Chief Patrick Wiley.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Even if they did receive one, they wouldn’t be able to carry it with them in responding to emergencies, Wiley said this week.</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: times;">“They’re not approved by the state of Pennsylvania to run them on our rigs — every piece of equipment we have has to be OK’d by the state first,” said Wiley, who had taken a look at one of the devices given to a parochial school recently. “We’re talking with our medical director and he’s interested in approaching the state to see if they’re willing to do some testing with this to see if it’s something that can be approved, but at this point it’s not.”</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">In responding to choking incidents, Wiley said, Meadville firefighters follow the standard protocols taught in CPR classes.</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><a href="https://www.alliednews.com/news/how-to-save-a-life-event-honors-two-choking-victims-educates-community/article_0d33d8dc-2abf-11ec-a00b-2f921c4a175d.html">How to save a life: Event honors two choking victims, educates community</a> by Monica Pryts, Allied News (Grove City, PA), October 12, 2021 </span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/45027090/kolsons-krew-advocating-through-lifevac-donations">Kolson's Krew Advocating Through LifeVac Donations</a> by Alaina Jonathan, Erie (PA) News Now, October 22nd 2021</span><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article255262206.html">A toddler began choking on I-95 in Miami. Then a Good Samaritan, trooper came to the rescue</a> by Michelle Marchante and Carli Teproff, Miami Herald, October 25, 2021, UPDATED AT 9:27 PM</span></div></div></div></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-84868253066369327322021-05-16T14:54:00.002-04:002024-01-10T15:22:17.076-05:00Compilation of reports/statements by medical & governmental organizations and (mostly) mainstream media reports about "the Dechoker," now based in Denver [UPDATED 5/16/21]<div class="tr_bq">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> Dechoker promo video featuring <a href="http://www.advancedintegrativemedicine.com/our-providers/randall-snook/">Randall L. Snook MD of Lone Tree, CO</a></b></span></div>
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If I've missed any, please e-mail links to <a href="mailto:Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com">Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com </a><br />
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For information originating from Dechoker LLC (Wheat Ridge, CO), <a href="https://www.dechoker.com/">click here</a> for the company's home page. Click the links for the websites of <a href="https://www.dechokeruk.com/contacts/">Dechoker UK</a> (Northampton), <a href="http://dechokerspain.com/contacto.html">Dechoker Spain</a> (Madrid), and <a href="https://dechokersverige.se/kontakt/">Dechoker Sweden</a> (<span class="algo-summary">Gothenburg).</span><br />
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Also see <a href="https://www.dechoker.com/blogs/news/caretakers-detail-how-indispensable-dechoker-has-saved-dozens-of-lives"><i>Caretakers Detail How “Indispensable” Dechoker Has Saved Dozens of Lives</i></a>, a February 15, 2019 Dechoker LLC blog item which includes links to case reports signed by Randall Snook MD who practices at <a href="https://www.advancedintegrativemedicine.com/contact-us/">Advanced Integrative Medicine, Lone Tree, CO</a>.<br />
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<span class="algo-summary"><a href="http://www.the-sidebar.com/2019/06/chronological-compilation-of-reports-by.html">Click here</a> for my similar compilation re: the LifeVac anti-choking device.</span><br />
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<b>A. MEDICAL</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000890">Executive Summary: 2020 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care Science With Treatment Recommendations</a> (ILCOR) by Nolan et al, Circulation, October 21, 2020:<div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;">Recently, manual suction devices (airway clearance devices) that use a vacuum to remove foreign bodies have become commercially available. These devices have not previously been reviewed by ILCOR and were included in this SysRev. The data in the peer-reviewed literature assessing the efficacy of suction-based airway clearance devices comprised just 1 case series of 9 adults, which the task force deemed insufficient to support the implementation of a new technology with an associated financial and training cost...The task force suggested that suction-based airway clearance devices should not be used routinely.</blockquote>
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<div><a href="https://www.resus.org.uk/about-us/news-and-events/rcuks-policy-use-airway-clearance-devices-choking-victims" target="_blank">Does the Resuscitation Council (UK) recommend the use of airway clearance devices (ACD) in the treatment of the choking victim</a><a href="https://www.resus.org.uk/about-us/news-and-events/rcuks-policy-use-airway-clearance-devices-choking-victims" target="_blank">?</a>, UK Resuscitation Council, January 2, 2018</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p>Resuscitation Council UK is aware that several airway clearing
devices for the treatment of choking are now available in the UK. There
is insufficient evidence on the safety or effectiveness of these devices
for us to recommend their use, and we are concerned that the use of
these devices could delay established treatments for choking; for this
reason, <strong>Resuscitation Council UK does not support their use. </strong></p>
<p>Appropriately trained healthcare professionals can already use
advanced techniques such as suction or laryngoscopy and forceps for
airway foreign body removal. We recommend that new airway clearance
devices should only be used by trained healthcare professionals as part
of a formal evaluation. <br /></p></div>
April 5, 2018 Swedish CPR Council report re: anti-choking devices by
Henrik Wagner MD PhD, Jan Gelberg MD, Andreas Claesson RN PhD. <a href="https://www.hlr.nu/totalt-luftvagsstopp-och-nya-oprovade-produkter/">Click here</a> for original Swedish version; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hlr.nu%2Ftotalt-luftvagsstopp-och-nya-oprovade-produkter%2F">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate.<br />
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April 25, 2019 statement by the Spanish Council of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation re: anti-choking devices. <a href="https://www.cercp.org/noticias/noticias-del-cercp/628-noticia-20190426-1">Click here</a> for original Spanish version; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cercp.org%2Fnoticias%2Fnoticias-del-cercp%2F628-noticia-20190426-1">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate.<b><b> </b></b><br /><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: normal; margin: 16px 0px 10px; outline: none;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">B. GOVERNMENT</b></div><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: normal; margin: 16px 0px 10px; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/dechoker-llc-614629-05102021">May 10, 2021 warning/demand letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Dechoker LLC</a> re: the agency's ongoing investigation of the company. <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/detail.cfm?mdrfoi__id=11586110&pc=BSY">Click here</a> for the October 2, 2019 Adverse Incident Report involving a three-year-old that triggered the FDA investigation.</div>
<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/374520723/Aug-30-2017-determination-letter-from-UK-Medical-and-Healthcare-products-Regulatory-Agency-MHRA-re-LifeVac-anti-choking-device?campaign=VigLink&ad_group=xxc1xx&source=hp_affiliate&medium=affiliate"></a><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/374263682/Aug-30-2017-determination-letter-from-UK-Medical-and-Healthcare-products-Regulatory-Agency-MHRA-re-Dechoker-anti-choking-device">August
30, 2017 determination letter from UK Medical and Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) re: Dechoker anti-choking device</a> (via my Scribd account)<br />
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<b>C. MEDIA </b><br />
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<a href="https://insiderlouisville.com/economy/startups/game-changer-dechoker-medical-device-end-deaths-choking/">Game-changer: Dechoker medical device could end deaths by choking</a> by Melissa Chipman, Insider Louisville October 22, 2015 <br />
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<a href="https://www.wlky.com/article/fda-approves-new-lifesaving-device-based-out-of-louisville-1/3761785">FDA approves new lifesaving device based out of Louisville</a> by Ann Bowdan, WLKY-TV, October 30, 2015 <br />
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3459129/Space-age-beat-baldness-Health-gadgets-just-got-madder-actually-work.html">Space age to beat baldness: Health gadgets just got madder than ever... but do any actually work?</a> by Jinan Harb, Daily Mail (UK), February 22, 2016<br />
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<span class="author-name"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-new-devices-match-heimlich-to-stop-choking-1468242002">Can New Devices Match Heimlich to Stop Choking? LifeVac and Dechoker pose alternative to abdominal thrusts</a> by Laura Johannes, Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2016 (Paywalled) Phil Heimlich is my older brother -- PMH </span><br />
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<span class="author-name">Two new easy-to-use devices work like plungers to suck out obstructions in the airway, providing another option if standard treatment—such as abdominal thrusts developed in 1974 by Henry Heimlich—fail to clear the airway, say the companies who sell them.<br />
<br />...Both the Dechoker, $89.95, and the LifeVac, $69.95, have a plastic mask that provides a seal over the mouth and nose while suction is provided. The Dechoker looks like a large syringe, while the LifeVac’s plunger is shaped like a small accordion.</span></blockquote>
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...Skeptics include Dr. Heimlich, now 96. Such a device may not be handy in the “unexpected instance that a person chokes,” Dr. Heimlich, a retired thoracic surgeon from Cincinnati, says in a statement released by his son, Phil Heimlich. “Any action that delays use of the Heimlich maneuver or complicates the rescue can be deadly.” </span></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.healthnewsreview.org/review/kudos-to-wsj-for-giving-thorough-look-at-devices-for-choking-victims/">Kudos to WSJ for giving thorough look at ‘Heimlich alternative’ devices for choking victims</a> by Susan Wei PhD, Dan Mayer MD & Joya Victory, Health News Review, July 18, 2016 <br />
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<a href="https://abc30.com/health/anti-choking-devices-give-piece-of-mind-but-dont-replace-heimlich-maneuver/1529600/">Anti-choking devices give piece of mind but don't replace Heimlich Maneuver</a> by Liz Harrison, ABC30 News (Fresno, CA), September 27, 2016<br />
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<a href="https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/brackley-man-advocates-de-choking-device-for-all-nurseries-and-schools-as-alternative-to-back-slaps-1-7883157">Brackley man advocates ‘de-choking’ device for all nurseries and schools as alternative to back slaps</a> by Tim Redigolo, Northampton Chronicle & Echo, March 24, 2017 <br />
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<a href="http://www.fox46charlotte.com/news/local-news/anti-choking-device-business-raided-accused-of-investment-scheme">Anti-choking device business raided, accused of investment scheme</a> by investigative reporter Matthew Grant, FOX46-TV News, Charlotte, NC, March 12, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.abcactionnews.com/money/consumer/taking-action-for-you/dechoker-anti-choking-device-claims-to-save-lives-but-has-never-been-tested-on-humans">'Dechoker' anti-choking device claims to save lives but has never been tested on humans</a> by investigative reporter Jackie Callaway, WFTS-TV News, Tampa, FL, May 21, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://kwwl.com/news/2018/05/31/heimlich-alternative-kwwl-investigates-new-medical-device-offered-to-iowa-school/" target="_blank">Heimlich alternative? KWWL investigates new medical device offered to Iowa school</a> by Amanda Gilbert, KWWL-TV News, Waterloo, IA, May 31, 2018:<br />
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180618140102/https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/northampton-care-home-staff-save-residents-life-after-he-started-choking-1-8536207">Northampton care home staff save residents' life after he started choking</a> by Carly Roberts, Northampton Chronicle & Echo, June 15, 2018*<br />
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<a href="http://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/dechokers-at-a-l-expected-to-keep-kids-safe/article_8bc4ab3a-c91b-11e8-a349-5703559f8bce.html">Dechokers at A-L expected to keep kids safe</a> by Kate Day Sager, Olean Times Herald, October 5, 2018<br />
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<a href="http://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/heimlich-s-son-questions-dechoker-products-in-a-l-schools/article_5bbbe97c-dd8d-11e8-8aca-cf19385395c4.html">Heimlich’s son questions Dechoker products in A-L schools</a> by Kate Day Sager, Olean (NY) Times Herald, November 1, 2018<br />
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<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/4b6cm7e2yjf7d7c/2019_Jan_17_MKCitizen_article_by_Paige_Brown.pdf/file">Milton Keynes man’s device saves 11 people from choking to death</a> by Paige Brown, Milton Keynes Citizen, January 17, 2019*<br />
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<a href="https://www.dechokeruk.com/news/lastyear/">With 11 lives saved last year. What next for 2019…?</a>, DechokerUK blog, January 17, 2019 (emphasis added)<br />
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We are pleased today to confirm a total number of 11 (eleven) choking
deaths in the <b>adult care sector</b> last year were prevented with Dechoker.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/central-and-east/funding-for-life-saving-product-maker">Funding for life-saving product maker</a> by Jon Robinson, Inside Media Ltd., February 11,<span class="date"><time datetime="2019-02-11T08:10"> 2019</time></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1610058/care-homes-being-urged-to-reduce-choking-deaths?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=News">Care homes urged to reduce choking deaths</a> by Jill Rennie, carehome,co.uk, May 22, 2019 (emphasis added)<br />
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According to staff at <b>Brookholme Residential Care Homes in Chesterfield</b>, a resident began choking and turned blue after eating a piece of bacon. Staff told a Dechoker representative in the UK that abdominal thrusts did not work, and that they believe the resident would have died without the Dechoker.<br />
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...Kerry Toulson, manager of <b>Dudbrook Hall in Brentwood Essex</b> said: “We recognised that one of our residents, in particular, was at serious risk of choking on her food which was a real worry.<br />
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...“Approximately four weeks after our training, a resident who we were concerned with had been assessed as requiring a fork-mashable diet. One lunchtime they choked and lost consciousness.”<br />
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When staff failed to remove the object by using traditional methods of back blows and abdominal thrusts, staff began using the Dechoker. The blockage was removed easily, and the resident recovered quickly. </blockquote>
<i>Anti-choking devices: a lot of servile "journalism" and no clinical trials</i> by <a href="https://twitter.com/shora?lang=en">Esther Samper</a>, Hipertextual, May 26, 2019. <a href="https://hipertextual.com/2019/05/dispositivos-anti-atragantamiento-mucho-periodismo-servil-ningun-ensayo-clinico/amp?__twitter_impression=true">Click here</a> for original Spanish version; <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=/language_tools&u=https%3A%2F%2Fhipertextual.com%2F2019%2F05%2Fdispositivos-anti-atragantamiento-mucho-periodismo-servil-ningun-ensayo-clinico%2F">click here</a> for English version via Google Translate<br />
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<a href="https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/health/woman-passes-out-close-death-2927069">Woman passes out and is close to death after choking on food - but is miraculously saved by carer: Pensioner Ivy was unconscious</a> by Anna Riley, Hull Daily Mail, May 31, 2019<br />
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<a href="https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/regional/worcestershire/17821998.carers-used-dechoker-save-woman-choked-sausage/?ref=rss" target="_blank">Carers used Dechoker to save woman who choked on sausage</a> by Emily Collis, Senior Reporter, Worcester News, August 7, 2019 (emphasis added):<br />
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Staff at a Wyre Forest care home have praised an innovative anti-choking device which was used to save the life of a resident who "turned blue" after choking on a piece of sausage. <br />
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First-aiders at Casa Mia Care Home in Far Forest turned to the Dechoker as a last resort after back slaps and abdominal thrusts failed to revive <b>a woman who fell unconscious for between three and four minutes</b> during dinner on July 18.<br />
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Team leaders Tracey Hemmings, aged 46, and Lorraine Swain, aged 58, say the woman, who suffers with a mood disorder which affects her mobility, "would have died" if it wasn't for the device. <br />
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..."Lorraine had already tried back slaps but that didn't work, so we started doing abdominal thrusts. When that didn't work we realised the severity of the situation and <b>called 999</b>. <br />
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"She was totally unresponsive and started to turn blue. <br />
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"We grabbed the Dechoker as a last resort. We have three of them in the home and were all trained how to use them last year. <br />
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..."She started breathing again. It was amazing. <br />
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<b>"Lorraine and I both said she would have died otherwise. It was a really close call." </b><br />
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The resident was the 31st person to be saved by a Dechoker... </blockquote>
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<b>Casa Mia now wants to encourage other care homes in the area to invest in a Dechoker... </b></blockquote>
* Via the February 11, 2019 Press Gazette article by Charlote Tobitt, <a href="https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/blogger-asks-press-regulator-to-consider-sanctions-against-online-publishers-that-pull-articles-without-explanation/">Blogger (Peter M. Heimlich) asks press regulator to consider sanctions against online publishers that pull articles without explanation</a><span class="date"><time datetime="2019-02-11T08:10"><span class="date">, s</span>hortly after publication, the Northampton Chronicle & Echo and Milton Keynes Citizen articles were "disappeared" from the publications' websites. The above links to those stories are, respectively, via The Wayback Machine and to a text version sent to me by UK's Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO).</time></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">If the person with you was choking, would you know what to do</a>? by consumer investigative reporter Lauren Verno, WJXT-TV (Jacksonville, FL), May 3, 2021</div><div><br /></div><div>
<div><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/507903578/St-Luke-s-Children-s-Hospital-Boise-ID-warns-parents-about-anti-choking-devices-5-131-21-press-release">St. Luke's Childrens Hospital (Boise, ID) warns parents about anti-choking devices</a>, media release, May 13, 2021</div><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DxPqbdxl8II" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/health/st-lukes-issues-warning-to-parents-about-anti-choking-devices/277-e26f2724-4326-45b4-8505-a1788810fb41" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">St. Luke's issues warning to parents about anti-choking devices</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-family: georgia;">, KTVB-TV (Boise), May 13, 2021</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/st-lukes-warns-parents-about-anti-choking-devices-encourages-cpr-training/article_3e542676-7cc5-5d4e-a74e-5038f7084ac7.html" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">St. Luke's warns parents about anti-choking devices, encourages CPR training</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-family: georgia;"> by Erin Sheridan, Idaho Press, May 13, 2021</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.kmvt.com/2021/05/16/st-lukes-childrens-warns-of-reliance-on-anti-choking-devices/" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia;">St. Luke’s Children’s warns of reliance on anti-choking devices</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #161616; font-family: georgia;"> by KMVT-TV News (Twin Falls) by Jack Schemmel, May 15, 2021</span></div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-75393498411573413552021-01-19T18:09:00.001-05:002021-01-19T18:09:21.385-05:00Bed, Bath & Beyond confirms to me that they're dropping MyPillow productsOn January 16, I emailed this inquiry to Jessica Joyce, Senior Manager of Public Relations at Bed, Bath & Beyond:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;">In recent years, about once a year my wife and I order about $100 worth of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">this excellent product</a> from your company. As it happens, we recently placed and last week received order #BBB7121236315 which we haven't yet opened.<br /><br />Via <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">this tweet</a> by attorney Ben Meiselas at MeidasTouch.com, this morning it came to our attention that your company sells My Pillow products. <br /><br />...Does your company intend to initiate a review to determine whether Bed, Bath, & Beyond will continue selling My Pillow products? If no review is expected, would you please provide instructions on how I may return our recent order for a refund?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br /></div>About an hour ago, I received this reply:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Peter, <br /><br />We are continually improving our product assortment, which includes plans to offer an array of unique and exclusive Owned Brands from Spring 2021. <br /><br />As previously announced, we have been rationalizing our assortment to discontinue a number of under-performing items and brands. This includes the MyPillow product line. Our decisions are data-driven, customer-inspired and are delivering substantial growth in our key destination categories. <br /><br />Sincerely, <br /><br />Mike Wiles </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Head of Customer Care</div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-20928556546052282302021-01-19T10:35:00.005-05:002021-02-28T08:35:51.694-05:00Is a Greenville, SC, chiropractor/social media star using patients to test an experimental medical device? I've asked the state to review [UPDATES: 1) Vendor of the "Y-Strap" wrote me that the device is not marketed to be used for any medical treatment; 2) The FDA's taking a look; 3) South Carolina is investigating with a pending decision by Chiropractic Board]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>January 16, 2020 </b><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/file/ojjw55p8599ni24/2020_Jan_14_PMH-SC_licensure_dept_re_JCipriano_redacted.pdf/file" target="_blank">Click here</a> to direct download a copy of my January 14, 2020 letter to South Carolina's licensing agency requesting of review of chiropractor Joseph Cipriano's use of the "Y-Strap decompression tool." <br />
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Via <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-chiropractors" target="_blank">Crack addicts are turning YouTube chiropractors into huge viral stars; Videos of influencers getting their backs and necks cracked are racking up millions of views on YouTube</a> by James Nolan, WiredUK, October 15, 2019:</div>
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The Y-Strap is a black, mostly fabric harness that looks like something from an S&M dungeon. In Joseph Cipriano’s YouTube videos, it's placed behind the necks of prone patients who, in the moment before the crack, typically tense <a href="https://youtu.be/G8KYye_DV6k?t=757">as if bracing for a crash</a>.<br />
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Cipriano, a chiropractor based in Greenville, South Carolina, has become a YouTube sensation in the past 18 months, taking his channel from inception last March to more than 850,000 subscribers ...“I literally watched every video I could find on the Y-Strap first,” says Xavier, a patient of Cipriano’s. “It’s pretty daunting to think you’re allowing someone to pull apart your spine like a Lego.”<br />
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“Coowaa,” goes the sound as Cipriano yanks the Y-Strap and patient's skull away from their body: a mix of them being dragged and cracks that ricochet down the spine, caused by bubbles forming in the synovial fluid around joints. The noise is followed by either laughter, a grimace, or an emotional release that can include crying. “I feel like I just grew two inches,” says one woman.</blockquote>
Via my letter (which includes links and text from the <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-chiropractors" target="_blank">WiredUK</a> article and another article recently published in <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmmdb/chiropractic-adjustment-videos-youtube" target="_blank">Vice</a>):<br />
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As a result of research by my wife and me into my father's bizarre career, I developed an interest in experimental medical treatments/devices, medical ethics (including the use of human subjects in unsupervised medical research), and oversight responsibility of public health authorities. The following situation in your state appears to include all of those topics.<br />
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...This is to request that your office review the following information and provide me with a determination if (Greenville, SC, chiropractor Joseph) Cipriano’s treatment of his patients using a device called the “Y-Strap decompression tool” is in compliance with your agency’s guidelines. </blockquote>
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<a href="https://y-strap.com/" target="_blank">Superior Balance SL</a> is a company in Seville, Spain, that markets the "Y-Strap" in the US and other countries. Via my letter (on which I
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></span>courtesy-copied Jeffery Shuren MD JD who heads the US Food & Drug Administration's medical devices division):<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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I searched <a href="https://y-strap.com/">https://y-strap.com</a> and <a href="https://www.drjosephcipriano.com/">https://www.drjosephcipriano.com</a> and the FDA’s database of registered devices and failed to locate any information regarding whether the “Y-Strap” is registered with that agency, so yesterday I phoned Superior Balance SL in Seville and a company representative informed me that the device is not registered with the FDA. <br />
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When I asked if the device has been the subject of any published studies, the representative replied, “The Y-Strap hasn’t been the subject of any clinical trials. Because there is no clinical proof that it works, we don’t sell it as a medical product.”<br />
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Therefore, Mr. Cipriano appears to be using his patients to test the medical benefits of the “Y-Strap.” In your review, would you please determine which if any Institutional Review Board is overseeing his research? </blockquote>
Big hat tip to <a href="https://twitter.com/powerm1985" target="_blank">Myles Power for tweets</a> that introduced me to this story. He also steered me to videos from which I made these clips of Cipriano using the "Y-Strap" to aggressively yank the necks of his patients. (I included the videos in my letter to the state agency that licenses him to practice in the Palmetto State.)<br />
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<b>UPDATE: </b>On January 20, Tomas Lopez, president of the Seville, Spain company that markets the "Y-Strap" sent me a complaint email requesting I change this blog item. In a same-day reply, I declined and sent him some questions. I haven't received a reply.<br />
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Via his email: <br />
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(We) do not market (marketing)<i> [sic]</i> our product as a medical product...<br />
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We never say they are intended to diagnose, treat, cure, nor prevent any disease or health condition. </blockquote><p>
<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/444342306/My-1-20-10-correspondence-with-Tomas-Lopez-of-Y-Strap-com-of-Seville-Spain-NO-REPLY-TO-MY-QUESTIONS" target="_blank">Click here</a> for both emails which I'm sharing shared with South Carolina's licensing agency and the FDA.<br />
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<b>UPDATE:</b> On January 27, the FDA wrote me that they're taking a look at my concerns about the "Y-Strap."</p><p></p><p><b>UPDATE: </b>On June 8, 2020, Erica Williams at the SC Dept. of Labor Licensing and Regulation's Office of Investigations and Enforcement emailed me that my request has been assigned to investigator Kevin Pate.</p><p></p><p><b>UPDATE:</b> On January 19, 2021, Mr. Pate emailed me, "The complaint before the SC Board of Chiropractic Examiners (2019-23) is still pending. The investigative aspect of the case has been completed but the Board has yet to render a decision...At this point I cannot provide a date for a Board decision as the case has been designated for additional review. The Board meets next month (February 4th) and it will not be on the docket at that meeting. I would hope the case would be ready for the following Board meeting in the Spring." <br />
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<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" data-auto-height="true" frameborder="0" height="600" scrolling="no" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/444589612/content?start_page=2&view_mode=scroll&show_recommendations=false&access_key=key-CZXmaF1h7BnRSIWtxfzo" title="My 1/27/20 follow-up re: "Y-Strap" device & FDA reply re: investigation" width="150%"></iframe><br /></p>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-45336178642774896122020-10-17T11:35:00.001-04:002020-10-17T11:35:50.563-04:00My letter today to the Composite Medical Board of Georgia re: Richard D. McCormick M.D.<p></p><p></p><p></p><p><i>Sent via email to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">jmcgehee@dch.ga.gov</a> and faxed to (404)656-9723 </i></p><p>October 17, 2020 <br /><br /> Jonathan McGehee <br />Director of Investigations <br />Georgia Composite Medical Board <br />2 Peachtree Street, NW, 6th Floor<br /> Atlanta, GA 30303-3465 <br /><br />Dear Mr. McGehee: <br /><br /> According to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">What is unprofessional conduct?</a> on your agency’s website: </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> According to the Medical Practice Act, unprofessional conduct includes "any departure from or failure to conform to the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing medical practice and shall also include, but not be limited to the prescribing or use of drugs, treatment or diagnostic procedures which are detrimental to the patient as determined by the minimal standards of acceptable medical care…" <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">Re: licensee #69037, Richard Dean McCormick M.D., this is to request that your agency review the following information and provide me with a determination whether or not Dr. McCormick has violated the standards of unprofessional conduct. <br /><br /> According to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Dr. McCormick's licensure information on your agency's website</a>, he graduated from the Morehouse School of Medicine in 2010 and completed a residency at Emory University in 2013. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">According to his LinkedIn</a>, Dr. McCormick was an emergency medicine physician in the United States Navy from 2013-2017 and from 2017 to the present he has worked as an emergency medicine physician at Gwinnett Medical Center and Northside Hospital. According to the licensure information on your agency's website and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">a search of the website of the American Board of Medical Specialities</a>, he is not board certified. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">A PubMed search</a> of the literature failed to locate any articles listing him as an author. <br /><br /> In other words, it appears Dr. McCormick has no displayed expertise in any medical field except emergency medicine which, since obtaining his Georgia license on December 7, 2012, he has been practicing for less than seven years. <br /><br /> Nevertheless, per <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">the attached October 6, 2020 letter</a> signed by 120 Georgia health care professionals, since February of this year, Dr. McCormick has represented himself in media reports and via social media as an expert in the fields of epidemiology, immunology, and public health:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> On February 27th, Dr. McCormick suggested the country had nothing to
worry about, stating that “nobody in the United States has died from
[COVID-19]. We have zero cases in Georgia. To put this in perspective,
12,000 people die a year of the flu.” At the time of this statement,
82,736 persons had been diagnosed and 2,814 people had died of COVID-19
globally. <br /><br /> On February 29th, Dr. McCormick tweeted: “Strong
decisive leadership prevented this situation from being much worse,” and
“Everything gets worse with panic.” <br /><br /> On March 9th, Dr.
McCormick blamed the media for “creating panic and hype to create
headlines” regarding COVID-19, as cases in the US began to spike. <br /><br />
On March 16th, Dr. McCormick stated in a video that COVID-19 would be
"a bad memory" in "two months." By March 16, there already had been
4,679 cases and 97 deaths in the US. Two months later, there would be
1.474 million cases and 91,697 deaths in the US, including 37,212 cases
and 1,598 deaths in Georgia. <br /><br /> On May 16th, Dr. McCormick used
his credentials as a physician to urge the reopening of the country
while the spread of the virus was still not under control. A dramatic
surge in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred following Memorial
Day, including in Georgia.<br /><br /> On May 26th, Dr. McCormick said
Governor Kemp “made a bold move to open back up” and falsely claimed
“data shows we’re doing it safely.” <br /><br /> ...On April 9th, June 1st,
and July 3rd, Dr. McCormick promoted, without evidence, the use of
hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19. The FDA revoked its EUA for
hydroxychloroquine on June 15, 2020 on the basis that it was unlikely to
be effective for treatment but had known and potential side effects,
thus no longer meeting EUA criteria. In his June 1 appearance on One
America News Network he also mentioned using “other drugs” including
ivermectin, doxycycline, and zinc, none of which have evidence for
efficacy. <br /><br /> ...On June 1st, Dr. McCormick incorrectly claimed
that the coronavirus "wasn't spreading" because the country was
developing herd immunity to the virus. The virus was, in fact, spreading
rapidly at that time, as evidenced by the fact that US cases would rise
from 1.8 million on June 1 to nearly 2.7 million on July 1. During that
month, over 20,000 people would die in the US and over 700 in Georgia,
bringing total deaths to 128,417 and 2,827, respectively. McCormick’s
unsubstantiated theories about herd immunity have been repeatedly
discredited by multiple experts. CDC Director Redfield recently
testified to Congress that fewer than 10% of Americans are likely to
have immunity, far short of the high levels needed to provide true
community “herd” immunity. Moreover, experts have said that “herd”
immunity without a vaccine would require a minimum of 50% of the
population to have immunity and would result in as many as
500,0002,100,000 deaths in the US, an unimaginable toll to pay. <br /><br />
On September 8th, Dr. McCormick repeated the discredited and dangerous
claim that the country had reached herd immunity: “I’m very proud to
say we’re reached a point of saturation… Once you reach about 15-25% of
the population you do develop a herd immunity. We’ve reached that right
now.” Stating that herd immunity has been reached is tantamount to
telling the public that further mitigation through masks, social
distancing, and other measures, is no longer required. In the same
video, he also falsely stated that, “The youth are not at risk for this
disease.” <br /><br /> ...On September 8, Dr. McCormick stated that “We
should have the vaccination out by about November 1.” Both Dr. Anthony
Fauci and Dr. Redfield testified under oath to Congress that a vaccine
would not be widely available to the general population until at least
Spring of 2021. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">In your review, this is to request that you include the entire letter (which includes hyperlinked citations to the sources of Dr. McCormick’s statements). <br /><br /> 2) According to a May 27, 2020 interview with reporter Stephanie Myers of the One America News Network (OANN), <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Doctor discusses fight against COVID-19 & GOP congressional race in Georgia</a>:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><b>SM</b>: Hydroxychloroquine continues to be a trending topic as numerous
doctors report seeing success treating COVID-19 patients with the drug.
One of those doctors is Dr. Richard McCormick, an emergency room
physician in Georgia who’s also running for the Peach State’s 7th
Congressional District...As a doctor yourself, what are some cases where
you’ve seen hydroxychloroquine treat patients with coronavirus?<br /> <br />
<b>Dr. Richard McCormick</b>: So one of our standards is when we admit a
patient, and that means they’re sick enough to be treated in the
hospital, is we use hydroxychloroquine as one of our standard
treatments...Remember this is a novel virus. <br /></p><p style="text-align: left;">On June 13, a couple weeks after the OANN interview, Katherine Watkins -- who handles media relations for Gwinnett Medical Center and Northside Hospital – wrote me that neither hospital treats COVID-19 patients with hydroxychloroquine. <br /><br />Since then I’ve written to Dr. McCormick requesting that he provide the name of the hospital where “we use hydroxychloroquine as one of our standard treatments (for COVID-19).” I’ve received no reply, therefore I’m concerned about the veracity of the information he provided to OANN’s audience. Further, since he apparently only works at Gwinnett Medical Center and Northside Hospital, he may have mischaracterized the treatment protocols at those facilities. <br /><br /> This is to request that your agency ask Dr. McCormick to provide the name of the hospital to which he was referring and that you determine if his televised claim was in compliance your agency’s standards of unprofessional conduct. <br /><br /> Thank you for your time/consideration and I look forward to your reply. <br /><br /> Sincerely,<br /><br />Peter M. Heimlich <br />STREET ADDRESS REDACTED<br />Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USA <br />ph: (678)322-7984 <br />e-mail: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a> <br />website: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">http://medfraud.info</a> <br />blog: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">http://the-sidebar.com</a> <br />Twitter: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh</a> <br />bio: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
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Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-46249447891165515702020-08-24T15:01:00.009-04:002020-08-24T17:11:00.338-04:00Here's why the New York Times "disappeared" a strong critical quote from a prominent Georgia Republican about Marjorie Taylor Greene, a GOP QAnon follower likely headed for Congress<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCxV9hvvtAg/X0PlrV5XHwI/AAAAAAAAGAI/nVLKyElDxJsnFbtckhBFK5LkovuX_sJIACLcBGAsYHQ/s690/Marjorie%2BGreene%2B8-11-20%2BNYT%2Bss.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="690" height="372" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kCxV9hvvtAg/X0PlrV5XHwI/AAAAAAAAGAI/nVLKyElDxJsnFbtckhBFK5LkovuX_sJIACLcBGAsYHQ/w512-h372/Marjorie%2BGreene%2B8-11-20%2BNYT%2Bss.JPG" width="512" /></a></div><p></p><p>Republicans willing to criticize the bizarre, delusional conspiracy theory known as QAnon are harder to find than hen's teeth.</p><p></p><p>So when this critical quote by Karen Handel -- a GOP household name in my state of Georgia who is now running for Congress in a district adjacent to mine -- showed up on the evening of August 11 in a New York Times report by veteran journalists Matthew Rosenberg, Astead W. Herndon and Nick Corasaniti -- <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-georgia-primary.html?referringSource=articleShare">Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon Supporter, Wins House Primary in Georgia</a> -- it unquestionably had news value for readers and for the record:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6Aa5N2g_2o/X0PmTf9mCbI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/l6j4Mf4t4LE1U9sW28WJ4OsRBWYFBLxlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s614/Karen%2BHandel%2BMIA%2Bquote%2Bfrom%2BAug%2B11%2B2020%2BNYT%2Barticle.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="614" height="316" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6Aa5N2g_2o/X0PmTf9mCbI/AAAAAAAAGAQ/l6j4Mf4t4LE1U9sW28WJ4OsRBWYFBLxlwCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h316/Karen%2BHandel%2BMIA%2Bquote%2Bfrom%2BAug%2B11%2B2020%2BNYT%2Barticle.JPG" width="491" /></a></div><p></p><p>But the next morning, here's the same part of the story:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goPnJn4uFN8/X0PnlpO5NmI/AAAAAAAAGAc/mKiyBaslvfEoc7N38ZGJEh4pQqawCpuzQCLcBGAsYHQ/s614/Karen%2BHandel%2Bquote%2Bgone%2Bfrom%2BAug%2B11%2B2020%2BNYT%2Bv2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="229" data-original-width="614" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-goPnJn4uFN8/X0PnlpO5NmI/AAAAAAAAGAc/mKiyBaslvfEoc7N38ZGJEh4pQqawCpuzQCLcBGAsYHQ/w491-h183/Karen%2BHandel%2Bquote%2Bgone%2Bfrom%2BAug%2B11%2B2020%2BNYT%2Bv2.JPG" width="491" /></a></div><p>The updated version included no explanation to readers why Ms. Handel's quote was scrubbed -- the original version's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200820022714/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-georgia-primary.html?referringSource=articleShare">available via The Wayback Machine</a> -- so via emails and tweets <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1293383575379816449">I asked the three reporters</a>. </p><p>No reply, so <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1295109954072961024">I emailed and left a voice message for the paper's Politics Editor Patrick Healy</a>.</p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZl6rJVB3fA/X0Pui2OnnNI/AAAAAAAAGAo/EFd-oGGTTjIDHt_3Itlr47cwhc0D_nDygCLcBGAsYHQ/s263/Patrick%2BHealy%2BTwitter%2Bphoto.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="234" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VZl6rJVB3fA/X0Pui2OnnNI/AAAAAAAAGAo/EFd-oGGTTjIDHt_3Itlr47cwhc0D_nDygCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Patrick%2BHealy%2BTwitter%2Bphoto.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><p>No reply, so I left a voice message and emailed Standards Editor Philip Corbett who replied later that day. </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lNtMlPrC_Mc/X0PvO-bTMOI/AAAAAAAAGAw/k-6nalPUDAUqrzlJOh4R7RdaHL70O1gRACLcBGAsYHQ/s319/Philip%2BCorbett%2BNYT.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lNtMlPrC_Mc/X0PvO-bTMOI/AAAAAAAAGAw/k-6nalPUDAUqrzlJOh4R7RdaHL70O1gRACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Philip%2BCorbett%2BNYT.JPG" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">Time: Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:25 PM <br />From Phil Corbett <REDACTED@nytimes.com><br />To: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/#">Peter.Heimlich@gmail.com</a><br />Subject: Re: blogger inquiry with editorial concern <br /><br />Dear Mr. Heimlich,<br /><br />Thank you for your note. I've gone over this with the editor who worked on that story, and I am confident that there were no ethical problems in how it was handled. This was simply routine editing of a live, developing story that went through multiple versions online and in print.<br /><br />The story changed and grew during the evening, particularly with more material on the Ilhan Omar race in Minnesota. As often happens, some earlier material was cut as new material was added. (In print, of course, we still have finite space for a story. And even online, editors often cut material to keep a story at a manageable length for readers.)<br /><br />The final version continued to make the point that some Republicans opposed Greene, and included examples beyond Handel.<br /><br />To your related question, we append corrections or editors' notes when a story has been changed to fix a factual error or other journalistic lapse; we don't append notes to point out other, routine editing changes, which would do little to serve the typical reader.<br /><br />Best regards,</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Philip B. Corbett</div><div style="text-align: left;">Associate Managing Editor for Standards</div><div style="text-align: left;">The New York Times</div></blockquote><p>In my thank-you reply, I politely expressed my disagreement with the decision and asked Mr. Corbett to verify the accuracy of the MIA quote to which he replied:</p><p></p><blockquote>(Obviously) if we thought the quote was wrong, we would do a correction. </blockquote><p>Therefore, even though the quote's no longer in the paper of record, in my opinion it's still in the record.</p><p></p><p>Along the way <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh/status/1293906829735366656">I also asked Karen Handel to verify the quote</a>. Perhaps not surprisingly, I didn't receive a reply.</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-11/greene-who-made-racist-videos-wins-gop-nod-in-georgia">the Associated Press report about her victory in the GOP primary</a>, here's Marjorie Taylor Greene:<br /></p><p></p><blockquote>“So the Republican establishment was against me. The D.C. swamp has been
against me. And the lying fake news media hates my guts,” she said.
“Yep, it’s a badge of honor.”</blockquote><p></p><p>Based on her incendiary words, I assumed Ms. Greene would welcome the opportunity to fling some fire and brimstone at the New York Times for scrubbing a critical quote about her. After all, couldn't doing so be construed as "lying" to readers? <br /></p><p></p><p>And the scrubbed quote came from Ms. Handel who could certainly be considered a member of the "Republican establishment." </p><p></p><p>So <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-08-11/greene-who-made-racist-videos-wins-gop-nod-in-georgia">I twice emailed a polite request for a comment to the outspoken Ms. Greene</a>, assuming she'd welcome a seemingly juicy opportunity to condemn these twin targets of her <span><span data-dobid="hdw">opprobrium</span></span>.</p><p>Based on casual observation, she appears to be a woman of few silences, so I was surprised not to receive a reply.</p><p>In any event, if one of Ms. Greene's potential constituents or someone else asks her about Ms. Handel denouncing her as unfit to be in the GOP, I'd be interested in the results.<br /></p>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comDuluth, GA 30096, USA33.9812131 -84.1540658999999925.5528883864035556 -119.31031589999999 62.409537813596444 -48.997815899999992tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-37490455574094855992020-07-08T14:58:00.000-04:002020-07-08T17:34:51.591-04:00Scorching letter & press release from Will Knight, a candidate in the current race for Maricopa County Attorney, calling out opponent Julie Gunnigle re: her role in the abusive, baseless prosecution of Annabel Melongo<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last week I blogged <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2020/07/high-profile-arizona-political-race.html"><i>High-profile Arizona political race pulls in the Save-A-Life Foundation scandal & the Annabel Melongo cases</i></a> about a skeleton in the closet of Julie Gunnigle, a Phoenix attorney running in the upcoming Democratic primary for Maricopa County Attorney. <br />
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<i>The original version of this item only included the letter.</i>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-36530223401269984282020-07-02T17:37:00.000-04:002020-07-03T05:38:55.241-04:00High-profile Arizona political race pulls in the Save-A-Life Foundation scandal & the Annabel Melongo cases<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MIs3nV_0O0Y/Xv5OyVKclCI/AAAAAAAAF60/huvTXmPVqLgATfVbq3xpRW3LV7KDpB9cwCK4BGAsYHg/s300/JGunnigle%2B2020%2Bgraphic.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="263" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MIs3nV_0O0Y/Xv5OyVKclCI/AAAAAAAAF60/huvTXmPVqLgATfVbq3xpRW3LV7KDpB9cwCK4BGAsYHg/w469-h263/JGunnigle%2B2020%2Bgraphic.jpeg" width="469" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div>Just when I thought I'd heard the last of the Save-A-Life Foundation (SALF) scandal and the Annabel Melongo cases, both turned up this week in a political campaign scrum in Phoenix. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Some quick catch-up.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I've called the SALF scandal -- which I uncovered in 2004 and <a href="http://medfraud.info/SALF-media.html">subsequently drove through the media via dozens of exposes</a> -- a microcosm of Illinois corruption. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>SALF was a high-profile, politically-connected Chicago nonprofit that received $9 million in federal and state tax dollars to provide first aid training to school kids. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>The bad news? Records indicate that few students received any training.</div><div><br /></div><div>In late 2009, a few months <a href="https://www.citybeat.com/home/blog/13037043/lawsuit-against-haap-heimlich-dismissed">after dropping a failed, nuisance lawsuit</a> filed against me and two other critics, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/390663998/Save-A-Life-Foundation-SALF-Articles-of-Dissolution-signed-by-Carol-J-Spizzirri-filed-9-17-09-with-the-IL-Secretary-of-State-s-Department-of-Busin">SALF was dissolved</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Shortly thereafter, the group's founder/president Carol J. Spizzirri -- <a href="https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/nov/17/city-light-save-a-life-money/">a serial fabricator, convicted shoplifter, and all-around nasty piece of work -- hightailed it to a mobile home park in San Marcos, California near San Diego</a>. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There she became an <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2019/03/">official in the Republican party</a>, a seeming slap in the face to some of SALF's biggest funders and promoters, all of whom have a (D) after their names: Dick Durbin, Arne Duncan, Gery Chico, and Lisa Madigan. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile on a parallel track, former SALF employee Annabel Melongo was caught up in a seemingly endless legal nightmare. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Via <i><a href="https://patch.com/illinois/skokie/downfall-non-proft-ongoing-saga-save-life-foundation-0">The Downfall of a Non-Profit: The Ongoing Saga of the Save A Life Foundation</a> </i>by Tim Moran, Patch.com,<time datetime="2015-07-17T17:19:40Z"> July 17, 2015:</time><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><p><b>P:</b> How does Annabel Melongo fit into the SALF saga and would you consider her a sympathetic figure?</p><p><b>Peter Heimlich:</b>
On October 31, 2006, Spizzirri swore out felony charges against Annabel
Melongo, a former SALF employee who left the company months earlier.
Based on Spizzirri's word and little else, Schiller Park cops arrested
Melongo on dubious charges that she destroyed SALF's computers. That
triggered eight years of relentless, baseless, and ultimately
unsuccessful prosecutions of Melongo by the Illinois criminal justice
system. In a wide-ranging federal civil rights lawsuit, Melongo is now suing Spizzirri and others responsible for the abuse she endured.</p></div><div>That abuse included a nearly two-year jail stretch. Here's what happened.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Melongo hosted a website challenging the bogus computer tampering charges which included recordings of two mundane phone converations she had with a court clerk. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>In retaliation, the Cook County State's Attorney charged her under the state's draconian Eavesdropping Act for which a judge levied a $300,000 bond against her. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>A $300,000 bond for uploading recordings of two routine phone calls? Welcome to the Cook County justice system. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>By then Melongo was near-destitute and didn't have the $30K to put up for the bond so at considerable expense, Illinois taxpayers paid her room and board at the County Jail while their legal system continued to kick her around.</div><div><br /></div><div>But Melongo was made of tough stuff. She became an able jailhouse lawyer and <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2014-03-20-chi-supreme-court-eavesdropping-law-20140320-story.html">through her efforts, helped strike down the Eavesdropping Act in the Illinois Supreme Court</a> in early 2014 and a few months later, <a href="https://www.the-sidebar.com/2014/07/scoop-annabel-melongo-found-not-guilty.html">per my scoop</a>, the state then dropped the bogus computer tampering charges.</div><div><br /></div><div>Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4261362/melongo-v-podlasek/">Melongo filed a wide-ranging civil rights lawsuit</a> against Spizziri and a number of law enforcement officials who unsuccessful tried to ruin her. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Earlier this year the case wrapped up with <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/467647171/Settlement-between-Annabel-Melongo-Carol-J-Spizzirri-founder-former-head-of-the-now-defunct-scandal-ridden-Save-A-Life-Foundation-Melong-v-Sp">Melongo getting an undisclosed settlement from Spizzirri</a>. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div>I figured that was the final act, but this week found the ghosts of SALF haunting a contentious political race in the Grand Canyon State.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div> Via the June 30 Arizona Republic, <i><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/06/30/maricopa-county-attorney-candidate-julie-gunnigle-misconduct-allegations-illinois/3254916001/">Maricopa County attorney candidate accused of misconduct in decade-old case</a></i> by Lauren Castle:</div><div><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">A decade-old civil lawsuit out of Illinois is being used to attack the credibility of Maricopa<br />County attorney candidate Julie Gunnigle.<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">...Gunnigle, a former Cook County Assistant State's Attorney, was forced to address allegations of misconduct related to her role in the Illinois lawsuit after an employee with the Mass Liberation Project mentioned the case during a recent candidate forum.<br /><br />...While Gunnigle was with Cook County, she helped prosecute Annabel Melongo, who worked for a now-defunct nonprofit organization called the Save-A-Life Foundation.<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In 2006, Melongo was accused of deleting financial files and charged with computer tampering.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">...Melongo alleged that she discovered some discrepancies in her court records and started to<br />record phone calls with court reporters. She posted the recordings and transcripts on a<br />website chronicling her efforts to defend herself. <br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In 2008, she was arraigned on new charges of computer tampering. The docket sheet said she wasn't there but the hearing transcript stated she was present, according to a civil lawsuit.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> <br />The Illinois assistant attorney general directed a forensic expert to look into the website, according to court records. Later that year, Gunnigle and two other prosecutors with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office started an investigation.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> <br />Melongo was later charged with eavesdropping and using information that was obtained through a eavesdropping device. She spent about 20 months in jail awaiting trial.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Before the trial, Melongo filed a motion to dismiss claiming the state's eavesdropping law was unconstitutional. The case eventually went all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court, which overturned the state's eavesdropping law in 2014. <br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">In 2013, Melongo filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against Gunnigle and other prosecutors, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, law enforcement, court reporters, a forensic science expert, the state's assistant attorney general and the attorney general.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">She accused officials of conspiracy, unreasonable seizure, false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, emotional distress, consumer fraud and deceptive business practices, and breach of fiduciary duty. The lawsuit also accused officials of violating her rights of free speech, equal protection, freedom of press and petition.</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The lawsuit was dismissed last year after a settlement was reached.<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">...Shortly after the forum, Gunnigle wrote an open letter to voters. She said the case taught her a lot about the problems of the criminal justice system.<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">...(Will) Knight, one of Gunnigle's opponents, sent a letter to the Maricopa County Democratic Party about his thoughts on the incident. <br /><br />..."I will never shrink away from my commitment to protect marginalized communities from powerful people," he said. "Maricopa County’s voters are tired of footing the bill for public officials who abuse vulnerable populations, and Ms. Gunnigle’s brand of Chicago-style corruption is not welcome."</div><div></div>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-21759160393913095342020-06-29T11:46:00.006-04:002020-06-29T12:50:48.326-04:00In my Georgia county, there are calls to remove a monument to the Confederacy installed in 1993; here's who voted for & against installing it & why<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tributes-to-confederate-and-union-troops-in-the-same-florida-park-reflect-an-ongoing-war-over-the-monuments/2017/09/22/e2a81802-98d3-11e7-b569-3360011663b4_story.html">New Confederate monuments are still being built across the country — even
in Union states</a><span class="by-lbl"> by </span> Kimberly Kindy
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At least 50 smaller Confederate monuments have been built since 1990,
including a bronze statue near a courthouse in Cleburne, Tex., and a
tombstone-shaped monument on the grounds of a public elementary school in
Prattville, Ala. Even Union states have them: Two Confederate monuments have
been erected in Iowa in the past 12 years. <br /><br />Newer monuments are
popping up mostly in rural towns and tend to laud foot soldiers rather than
Confederate generals and political leaders. All but seven are in Confederate
states and 60 percent are on public land.
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Via
<a href="https://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/gwinnett-solicitor-general-brian-whiteside-asks-for-removal-of-confederate-monument-in-lawrenceville-says-its/article_9590bc06-b840-11ea-8465-d39342e32d87.html">Gwinnett Solicitor General Brian Whiteside asks for removal of confederate
monument in Lawrenceville, says it's been a target of vandals</a>
by Curt Yeomans, Gwinnett Daily Post, June 27, 2020:
<blockquote>
Gwinnett County Solicitor General Brian Whiteside is asking the county
commission to remove a controversial Confederate memorial from the
Lawrenceville Square that the prosecutor said has been the target of vandals
multiple times recently.<br /><br />Whiteside’s request comes one week after
Gwinnett County commission District 1 candidate Kirkland Carden and former 7th
Congressional District candidate Nabilah Islam launched a petition calling for
the monument’s removal. The memorial stands on the grounds of the Gwinnett
County Historic Courthouse and was erected in 1993.
</blockquote>
I live in Gwinnett County and was curious to know how the monument came to be so
I filed a public records request with the county. The key responsive records
from Spring 1992 are posted below;
<a href="https://www.mediafire.com/file/xcdcdkmdgergr0g/2020_June_24_responsive_records_Gwinnett_Cty_re_1993_Confederate_monument_select.pdf/file">click here</a>
to download.<br />
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Via the minutes of a commission meeting, here's how commissioners voted after
reviewing a February 24, 1992 memorandum from Human Services Director Mike Huff
and a presentation by Bob Biggers. (I obtained the identifiers below from county
Communications Director Joe Sorenson; he didn't know who Mr. Biggers was. (If
you do or if you have other information to share, please <a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">email me</a>.<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></span>)<br />
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W.J. Dodd, District 1 Commissioner, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners
(1989 – 1992) [Dodd also served as Sheriff from 1969 through a portion of
1985]
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Doug Williamson, District 2 Commissioner, Gwinnett County Board of
Commissioners (1991-1994)
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Renee Unterman, District 4 Commissioner, Gwinnett County Board of
Commissioners (1991 – 1994)
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Lillian Webb, Chairman, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners (1985 – 1992)<br />
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<u>OPPOSED</u><br />
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Curtis McGill. District 3 Commissioner, Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners
(1989 – 1992)<br />
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The only name I recognize is Renee Unterman who was
<a href="https://www.yorknewstimes.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/georgia-democrats-tab-johnson-to-face-allen-in-12th-district/article_49c7fc7e-1887-5164-9c68-5317cdfceff0.html">recently defeated in a bid to represent my congressional district</a>. If time permits, I'll ask her and any other surviving commissioners for
comment. <br />
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Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-62996969684630467842020-04-26T15:43:00.000-04:002020-04-26T15:43:21.544-04:00Last week on the Tonight Show, actor Halle Berry claimed that in 2002, co-star Pierce Brosnan used the Heimlich maneuver to save her from choking to death -- but six years ago she told The Hollywood Reporter she'd never been "Heimlich-ed" <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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From: <a href="http://peter.heimlich/">Peter.Heimlich</a><peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><a href="http://gmail.com/">@gmail.com</a> </peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com="">To: <a href="mailto:thrnews@thr.com">thrnews@thr.com</a>, EIC Matthew Belloni </peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com="">
Cc: Ryan Parker, Seth Abramovitch<seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">, Tonight Show publicist Amber James </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com=""><span class="gI">subject: </span><span class="gI">Letter to the editor (submitted for publication)</span></seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com=""><span class="gI">Date: Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 3:18 PM</span> </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">To the editor: </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/pierce-brosnan-saved-halle-berry-choking-james-bond-scene-1291289">an April 22, 2020 story by THR reporter Ryan Parker</a>, last week on the Tonight Show actor Halle Berry told Jimmy Fallon that in 2002, her co-star Pierce Brosnan used my father's namesake anti-choking maneuver to save her from choking to death while filming a love scene for the James Bond thriller, <i>Die Another Day</i>. </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">However, six years ago in Seth Abramovitch's award-winning August 14, 2014 THR investigative report, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-dr-heimlich-maneuvered-hollywood-725352"><i>How Dr. Heimlich Maneuvered Hollywood Into Backing His Dangerous AIDS "Cure"</i></a>
-- based on research by my wife and me -- "(Ms.) Berry has denied being saved by the (Heimlich) maneuver." </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">So which is it? </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">Presumably Mr. Brosnan, <i>Die Another Day</i> director Lee Tamahori, and others involved in the picture can resolve the discrepancy. Also, since Ms. Berry claims it happened mid-scene, if the cameras were still rolling that would be some dramatic, newsworthy footage. </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">Sincerely, </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
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<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">Peter M. Heimlich </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">Peachtree Corners, GA 30096 USA </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">ph: (208)474-7283 </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">e-mail: <a href="mailto:peter.heimlich@gmail.com">peter.heimlich@gmail.com</a> </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">website: <a href="http://medfraud.info/">http://medfraud.info</a> </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">blog: <a href="http://the-sidebar.com/">http://the-sidebar.com</a> </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh">https://twitter.com/medfraud_pmh</a> </seth></jeanie></peter><br />
<peter .heimlich="" gmail.com=""><jeanie .pyun="" thr.com=""><seth .abramovitch="" thr.com="">bio: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr">http://tinyurl.com/ych7o7dr</a></seth></jeanie></peter>Peter M. Heimlichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09473045928201940808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146522305276974449.post-50486518200373427832019-09-27T10:28:00.001-04:002024-01-10T15:22:34.396-05:00Anti-choking devices & Suffolk County, NY, Part I: Lemonade fundraiser campaign to install LifeVacs in local schools heats up!<iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" mozallowfullscreen="" nbsp="" scrolling="no" src="https://w3.cdn.anvato.net/player/prod/v3/anvload.html?key=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%3D%3D" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="640"></iframe> <br />
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Via <a href="https://www.fox5ny.com/news/kids-lemonade-stand-raises-money-for-life-saving-device" target="_blank">Kids' lemonade stand raises money for life-saving device</a> by Briella Tomassetti, FOX5 NYC, July 15, 2019:<br />
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Kathy Romano and her grandchildren are helping to save lives one
ice-cold drink at a time. The good Samaritans are spending much of their
hot summer days outside, running an old-fashioned lemonade stand. All
the proceeds are going towards the purchase of a life-saving choking
device called the LifeVac.</blockquote>
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"The Life Vac can be done on anyone. It's safe and it's effective. It's
saved 25 lives in 25 tries," inventor Arthur Lih says. </blockquote>
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...So far, about 30 schools on Long Island have added the LifeVac to their safety kits.</blockquote>
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...Romano and her grandkids have already raised nearly $1,000, which is enough to purchase roughly three LifeVac devices, with help from the JT's Law Foundation.</blockquote>
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"This has to be in every single home, school, everywhere," Romano says.</blockquote>
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Her goal is to raise enough money for 19 LifeVac devices: One for every building in her grandchildren's school district.</blockquote>
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The report doesn't identify the school district her grandchildren </blockquote>
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