guaranteed a cool physician that will cover up certain things. You are
not allowed to admit to any s-xual acts with same gender. These are
all reasons to apply dadt and kick the person out of the armed forces.
This is another reason why we have such a high suicide, depression rate
int he military as poeple can not franly discuss their situtation with
others.
John McCain knows this. This has all been covered. The republicans
all know this. They don't care. If the US congress, president
approves of ending dadt, it will not be immediate act. It will be phased
in - in order to prevent harrassment of those that come out. It will
take atleast 1 to 2 years. I am not saying that I agree, but if
republicans block it, than they are rolling the dice and allowing the
court to decide if DADT is legal. If court rules NO, than there will be
no pased in application process.
Therefore, they are stating it is national security issue and must be
ratified by congress in order for it to be conducted in a orderly
process.
I was offended by McCain's suggestions that combat troops should vote on
it. Since when do troops get to vote on human rights? They didnt vote
on serving with blacks. McCain needs to retire and retire now. Can you
imagine if McCain / Palin were elected? My God, we probably would have
had nuclear war by now.
You are so right, the medical issue needs to be highlighted, addressed.
But, republicans don't care!
...jake
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DADT. Â This needs to be brought up so that physicians can give
proper treatment and confidentiality is critical here. This would also
apply if the patient has done illegal drugs as they would interact with
prescribed drugs. Talking to a military physician must be as
confidential as talking to a civilian doctor, priest, rabbi, or lawyer
for the benefit of all service people, gay, straight, bi, or evenÂ
celibate. This is an issue which if publicized more would help bring
down DADT even faster.
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G Diet & Fitness:Reminder: Did you complete your Diet Journal
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make a point of it by tomorrow! Own a bike? Ride it to lunch,
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inspire you!Today's Health -Â Wellness / Exercise / Reflections:The
Health Hazards of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"by RH Reality Check / Opposing
Views; Dec 3, 2010Â On December 1, The New England Journal of
Medicine published an article I wrote entitled "Health Hazards of `Don't
Ask, Don't Tell.'" The article describes how the military's policy on
homosexuality imperils the health of service members, the military, and
the country, and it advocates for repeal of the policy on those grounds.
> I have to say that, until last year, I never anticipated publishing an
article about "don't ask, don't tell." I have, and still do, support its
repeal. But I'm a physician and public-health practitioner, not a policy
wonk, lawyer, or expert on military affairs. And I've never served in
the military myself.
> What changed? Well, in 2009 I moved to San Diego, California, to take
a job as medical director of the municipal STD clinics in San Diego and
as director of public health efforts to prevent and control STDs in the
community. San Diego has proved different from places I've lived in the
past. It's not just sunnier. It's a whole lot more military. In fact,
about 175,000 active-duty service members and their dependents live in
San Diego. And considering that an estimated 2.2 percent of military
personnel are lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB), it should not be a
surprise that a fair number of them are LGB.
> I know that first-hand, because I not uncommonly care for active-duty
service members, including LGB service members, in the municipal
clinics. And, as I do for every patient I see, I take a sexual history.
I ask my patients who they have sex with, what types of sex they're
having with their partners, whether they're using protection.
> In doing so, I'm simply doing what I've been trained to so since my
very first day of medical school: find out what the problem is, and fix
it. And, when it comes to sexual health, those questions are critical to
me, in determining which screening tests to order, which diagnoses to
consider, and which STD and HIV prevention messages I should provide.
For example, guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) regarding STD screening are different for men who have
sex with men who than they are for men who have sex only with women.
> What happens when I ask my patients those intimate questions? Well,
for the most part, whether my patients are men or women, gay or
straight, military or civilian, they tell. They know that I need that
information to help them. And they want to be helped. They want to
be - or stay - healthy, after all. That's why they came to see me in
the first place.
> The problem with "don't ask, don't tell" is that it's a giant
roadblock in the middle of the typical "ask" and "tell" encounter that's
absolutely essential to the effective practice of medicine. It's like
trying to take care of a patient with chest pain without being able to
ask him whether he smokes, or has a history of heart disease, or has
ever had a heart attack in the past. It's not good medicine.
> But, unfortunately, that's exactly what happens in many military
healthcare settings, according to scores of military clinicians and
service members with whom I've talked. Military clinicians don't ask,
and service members don't tell. No matter that the Department of Defense
last year exempted use of disclosures of same-sex sexual behavior from
use under "don't ask, don't tell" procedures. Many military clinicians
and service members I've talked to aren't aware of that exemption. Even
after I tell them about it, military clinicians and service members say
they still won't ask and won't tell. As one military physician wrote me
after reading my article: "Training in military medicine will also have
to change with the times because I/we have never been previously trained
in taking appropriate sexual histories."
> The upshot is that infections among service members go undiagnosed and
untreated - unless they come see me, or another civilian provider
proficient in sexual health. There are certainly many more service
members who don't know about, or don't have access to, municipal
clinics. In those cases, we all lose. If infections go undiagnosed and
untreated, our public health efforts to break the chain of transmission
of STDs and HIV are undermined. That goes for our efforts in both the
military and the civilian populations, which in San Diego, and many
other areas across the country, have a huge amount of social - and
sexual -- overlap.
> STDs, of course, compromise military readiness, whether they're among
LGB service members or not. And they also predispose to HIV acquisition,
which itself is unfortunate for a service member and costly, in terms of
readiness and healthcare expenses, for the military.
> The best way to make sure our service members stay healthy is to
remove the "don't' ask, don't tell" roadblock. Repealing "don't ask,
don't tell" will have health benefits for service members, the military,
and the country. Don't we owe it to our men and women in uniform, who
are called on to sacrifice so much for us every day, to make sure we're
doing our part to protect their health?
> The Department of Defense this week released survey results indicating
that 70 percent of service members say that repeal of "don't ask, don't
tell" would have positive or mixed impact, or no impact at all, on their
units. And there's hope that the U.S. Senate will vote on repeal of the
policy before the lame duck session ends this month.
> But in the meantime, active-duty service members continue to come to
the municipal clinics. They include people like the sailor I describe in
The New England Journal of Medicine, a gay man I diagnosed with an STD.
He would never, he told me, go to a military clinic with a problem like
that, so long as "don't ask, don't tell" was the law of the land. Doing
so would pose too great a risk to his career. The sailor also told me he
would return to see me for retesting for gonorrhea in three months, as I
recommended, following CDC guidelines. He was, after all, about to be
deployed on a combat mission in Afghanistan.
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O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a
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become the public face of the movement to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't
Tell".After DADT Hearings, White House Meets With Repeal Groupsby Chris
Geidner on December 3,
> 2010 / Metro Weekly Following today's Senate Armed Services
Committee hearing discussing, in part, the lame-duck consideration of
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal legislation, the White House held an
off-the-record meeting with organizations pushing for DADT repeal
regarding repeal and the National Defense Authorization Act to which it
is attached.
> White House spokesman Shin Inouye confirmed the meeting with Metro
Weekly, writing, "Today, the White House met with various stakeholders
to discuss the passage of the NDAA, including DADT, during the lame
duck."
> Two people who attended the meeting but asked to remain anonymous
because of the off-the-record nature of the meeting told Metro Weekly
that those organizations that were represented included Center for
American Progress, Human Rights Campaign, Log Cabin Republicans,
National Black Justice Coalition, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force,
OutServe, People for the American Way, Servicemembers Legal Defense
Network, Servicemembers United, Stonewall Democrats and Third Way.
[Politico's Josh Gerstein, who first reported the news, also reported
that representatives from OutServe and the Palm Center attended the
meeting, a fact confimed to Metro Weekly by a third attendee.] As such,
it would make it the largest of several such White House meetings held
about DADT repeal this year.
> The two attendees of the meeting said that the White House was
represented at the meeting by Christopher Kang, White House legislative
affairs; Christina Tchen, director of the public engagement office;
Brian Bond, deputy director of public engagement; and representatives
from the Domestic Policy Council and White House Counsel's Office.
> Echoing and expanding on President Barack Obama's comments made after
the report was released on Tuesday, Inouye wrote, "The meeting follows
the release of the Defense Department Working Group report and the
congressional testimony of 10 top military leaders this week. The
testimony from those witnesses makes clear that now, more than ever,
Congress can and must take action during the lame duck session to give
the military the flexibility it needs to end DADT in a way that does not
jeopardize military readiness."
> One of the attendees said that the attendees were told that "this was
in fact a priority for the president and that [the New] START [treaty]
and DADT [repeal] can both be passed in the lame-duck.
> "Early next week, they are going to engage the progressive community
in calls for the senators," the attendee said they were told,
referencing the Organizing for America and Democratic National Committee
outreach described on Wednesday to Metro Weekly.
> A second attendee looked at the Senate action this week, saying, "We
had a very, very good series of Senate Armed Services Committee
hearings, dominated by a really strong message from the Pentagon that we
can repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' and we can implement in a timeframe
that makes sense.
> "While today's hearing pointed to the fact that the are different
opinions [of this issue], at the end of the day, the message was, 'We
can do this.'"
> Of the White House's view after those hearings, that second attendee
said, "With all the competing legislative issues and a shrinking
calendar, they were very positive about NDAA and DADT repeal, and they
are committed to getting it done."
> Regarding the timing, however, the first attendee said that the
pending impeachment proceedings for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas
Porteous of Louisiana and resolution of the tax-cut issues raised in a
letter sent to Reid from and signed by all 42 Republican senators
earlier this week "need to be done" before the Senate will proceed. "So
we're looking at the next week," the first attendee said.
> As for that timing, which differs from the timing discussed by SLDN
executive director Aubrey Sarvis after the hearing, the second attendee
said that discussion about running out of time was slightly overstated
at this point.
> "Eventually, yes, we'll run out of time. But we're not there yet, and
we won't be there if the vote isn't held next Monday, Tuesday or
Wednesday," the second attendee said. "The important thing is that we
win the vote when it's held because there's no second chance.
> "We want to hold the vote when will be able to win the vote."
> The first attendee said that Tchen stressed the White House's
commitment to passage of repeal language by stating that "if they
weren't serious about this they wouldn't have put [Defense Secretary]
Gates and [Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Adm. Mike] Mullen out there."
> The second attendee, asked if this appeared to be a meeting to mollify
organizations as a prelude to bad news about the repeal legislation,
said, "I know it wasn't. I've been mollified before, and this wasn't
mollification."
> The first attendee, however, did say, of the path forward, "All roads
keep leading back to [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid [(D-Nev.)]. If
he chooses to lay out a fair path, the votes should be there. If he
chooses to be a jerk about it, the game's over.""Every gay and lesbian
person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is
a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face
the same challenges."....JakeURGENT: Boycott Gold's Gym, Target
and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political
candidates/organizations and to Proposition 8 (California) to prevent
gay marriage. I would not purchase "Blood Diamonds," nor should a
person / organization be contributing funds to both Hitler /
Nazi's and the Jews at the same time!  Obviously giving money
to the Jews and not Hitler/Nazi's was the right thing to do.Â
  Hence, these companies violated my trust and
well-being.  They gave money to my
> enemy who would terminate me from my job, deny me housing and send
me to a Internment camp. Therefore, goodbye Gold's Gym, Target
and Best Buy! The CEO's of these companies have been insensitive to
our reaction and do not even comprehend their actions! What takes
so long to "fire" these Neanderthals?
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