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A Surgeon’s Journey in Medicine

Called to be a Surgeon, Not for Bread Alone: Neville K. Connolly, MA, MD. FRCS. FACS. FAAP

Dr. Neville Connolly’s desire to be a physician started early in his life when he decided he wanted to be able to spend his life helping people. When he started college at Kings College, Cambridge Univ. it was at the start of WW II in England. He felt that being a physician would allow him to be of help to many of the sick and wounded. After graduating from Cambridge University, he was given a Rockefeller scholarship to go to Harvard Medical School in the USA. Neville went in a convoy of Merchant Marine ships, escorted by destroyers, to New York to attend Harvard. He arrived at Harvard just as the US was attacked at Pearl Harbor and entered the war. While attending Harvard he did training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and was assigned to assist some of the great names of Hopkins surgeons. Among them were Blaylock, who developed the “blue baby” operation and was one of the pioneers of cardiac surgery, though he did not confine himself to this field. Firor, who was always a perfect gentleman and a superb, thoughtful surgeon, Reinhoff, nicknamed “Wild Bill”, was fearless but an excellent technician. All this activity was a sharp contrast to the leisurely discussions and seeming inactivity of the Medical Service that he was exposed to in Boston. The results of surgery were swift, and whether successful or not, determinate, it depended on technical skill as well as thoughtful planning. The whole atmosphere was intoxicating for a budding physician. It was here that he changed his mind and decided to become a surgeon. He still liked children and saw the possibilities of combining both his interests by becoming a pediatric surgeon. After graduating from Harvard. he returned to England to get his medical degree from Cambridge. To do this, he had to attend courses at an English Hospital. Since St. Thomas’s Hospital ln London had awarded Neville a scholarship before he accepted the scholarship from Rockefeller to go to Harvard, they allowed him to join their courses. Neville covers in great detail his learning experiences and the differences between the English and American system of training. At the end of his training he passed his exams at Cambridge and got his medical degree. Shortly after that the war ended in Europe, Neville started work at St. Thomas’s as a house officer This was his first year as a doctor, 1945-46. At the end of his six-month appointment he had to apply for another six months as a House surgeon before he could do his National Service in the ARF. He was anxious to get started in the field of his special interest, Pediatric Surgery. Neville’s father knew Sir Stanford Cade, who was the senior Surgical Consultant to the RAF and became Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a very influential advocate for the RAF and was able to organize a special burn service at the RAF Hospital. He offered to introduce Neville to the staff of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, the premier hospital for children in England. Though Neville was offered another six months at St. Thomas’s He applied at Great Ormond Street and was awarded a House Surgeon appointment to work with Denis Browne who later became Sir Denis Brown, the Queen’s surgeon. Great Ormond Street is a remarkable Hospital. It is the first Hospital in England to care for children exclusively. Neville goes into great detail about how much he learned and how many skills he mastered while working with Denis Brown. After his training at Great Ormand Street Neville started to study for his exams to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. During this time, he went into the Royal Air Force to serve his military obligation and was assigned as a surgeon to Ely Hospital, which was one of the main RAF hospitals that had one of the main burn units set up to treat burned pilots, many of them casualties from the battle of Britain. After finishing his service in the RAF, Neville went to St. Thomas’s Hospital as a supernumerary registrar, which was a position provided for ex-service men to get extra training. During that time, he passed his exams and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. England had just started the National Health Service and Neville got a position at Norwich Hospital as a middle grade surgical Registrar. He was assigned to two of the four consultant surgeons, Mr. Birt and Mr. Ridley Thomas. This was in the early days of the National Health Service. He found that they were inundated with patients. Once the patient chose the surgeon they wanted, they always saw the same surgeon unless they asked to have a different one. This allowed excellent continuity of care. On a busy day, and most were, they could see as man as 50 patients in a session. At the onset of the National Health Service no one had any concept of the enormity of the health problems lurking in the background. As soon as people realized they could get surgery for their problems without paying for it, they came forward with conditions like hernias, varicose veins and hemorrhoids that they had tolerated for years. The work load was stupendous. After two years at Norwich Hospital Neville returned to Great Ormond Street as a senior Registrar to continue his Pediatric surgical training. After he finished his training at Great Ormond Street he realized that there were few jobs for pediatric surgeon positions in the National Health Service. It was a specialty that was just beginning to be recognized. Neville realized it would be some time before he would possibly be able to get an appointment as a Pediatric surgeon. When he had visited his wife’s family in Washington, DC, he had been introduced to Dr. John Lyons, who was the Senior surgeon at one of the hospitals there. Dr. Lyons had taken care of Agnes, Neville’s wife, when she was very sick as a girl. Dr. Lyon’s told Neville if he ever decided to immigrate to Washington, he would welcome him as his associate. Dr. Lyon’s reputation was outstanding, both as a surgeon and as a man utterly devoted to his patients. Neville saw the move as a chance to make his own career on his own merits rather than chancing it on a selection committee of the Health Service. He decided to make the move to start his private practice in Washington. Read the full article

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NOVEMBER 2020

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Check out Trumpty Dumpty wanted a crown as read by Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Joseph Gordon Levitt.

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The Good Lord Bird is getting good reviews. It is very intense.

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Lori Loughlin began her prison sentence.

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Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost are married.

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Yamiche Alcindor has gotten the International Women’s media foundation Gwen Ifill award. YES!

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Tim Curry, Barry Bostwick and Nell Campbell appeared on Halloween with Wisconsin Democrats for the Rocky Horror show livestream. Donations will help Biden/ Harris.** Tenacious D reminded us to vote with a time warp tribute that had many great cameos!!

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Keith Richards has given us, ‘Hate it when you leave.’

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Days alert: The show is building up to a who killed Jan Spears mystery.** I am ready for Phillip to leave town. ** We needed a good prison break story just in time for Halloween!!** There is talk of bringing EJ back but James Scott has retired from show biz . People are making suggestions for another actor? Who should it be? Trevor St. John?** So Hope is just gone? No big send off?? Huh?

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I’m open to the possibility that there are Culkin siblings we don’t even know about yet. –Conan O’Brien

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Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy looks great. The award talk has begun.

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Sandra Oh and Awkwafina are set to star in a Netflix film about sisters.

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Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for Trump was indicted for foreign lobbying and he pled guilty.

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The competing town halls were quite a spectacle. FU NBC. 2 candidates not debating just pushes us deeper into our own bubbles.** JJ Abrams, Ava DuVerney, Mariska Hargitay and about 100 others sent a petition to NBC. # NBC Blackout ** At least Ms. Guthrie did ask the tough questions.

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Clue dolls have arrived!!

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Del Monte has brought us the pink glow pineapple for $49

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NFL player Dana Stubblefield got 15 years for rape.

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Imagine if Trump cared about coronavirus as much as he cares about Joe Biden’s son. – Ezra Klein

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The Dodgers won the World Series.

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Jeff Bridges has announced that he has lymphoma.

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I may not be able to change my Father’s mind but together, we can vote this toxic administration out of office. –Caroline Giulliani

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Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor. –J. Christian Adams

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Court packing ? Really? Mitch McConnell refused to seat 100+ Federal judges for Obama. Not to mention Merrick Garland.

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Much of our Covid money has went to fracking.

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It looks like the Philip Guston art exhibit which was set to appear in 4 museums will be postponed.

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The Pope has installed the first African American cardinal, Wilton Gregory.

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An Illinois cop killed Marcellis Stinnette and wounded Tafarra Williams after a chase. The cop with no name was fired.

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Ken Kurson, good friend of Kushner’s was arrested on a cyberstalking charge.

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Sean Hannity has set up a camera outside of Joe Biden’s house to what.. stalk him I guess??

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I like Presidents who don’t get Covid-19. –Sean Penn** The WH seems to have been infested with virus. Did Hope Hicks start all of this? The rumors keep flying about an affair. It has been confirmed that those rallies are a public health hazard. The whole Amy Coney Barrett crap started with a super spreader. What an Omen!** When Fauci saw that he said, :Nothing good can come out of this.” The WH has blocked the CDC from requiring masks on public transport.

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New information is coming out about the Mueller investigation. The WH sort of threatened the team about their investigation. If the people being investigated can kill an investigation, we don’t have a democracy. If the WH is suing about everything that is being looked into, how can anyone really look into it? Most people would not cooperate for they know if anything is found, they would be pardoned so why put it out there.

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Fox news works so hard at skewing. Headline: Hunter Biden investigation connected to probe. That means nothing. Headline: After debate cancellation, they will finally debate again. No mention of why debate cancelled. ** Trump stranded rally goers in the cold in Omaha.

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Tim Hutton and a friend have been accused of the rape of Sera Johnston in 1983.** 7 more sexual account charges have been added to the Ron Jeremy case.

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Why God repeatedly lies to Pat Robertson, I will never understand. –Eugene Mirman

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Facebook has banned QAnon.

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Father of the Bride part 3ish was very cute. I have been saying for years that the next installment should be sort of a Father of the Groom and it finally happened. The cast gave advice for the pandemic, moved the story along and introduced DeNiro to the family. Hooray Kieran!!

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Gretchen Witmer was nearly kidnapped when some yahoos wanted to take over the government. This civil war idea gets more real every day.** A man in Maryland was arrested for threatening to kidnap and kill Biden and Harris.** We must never forget that a militia is subject to the rules and laws of our Government. Without those rules, they are an illegal paramilitary organization.

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Trump walked out of a 60 minutes interview. Kayleigh McEnany gave Leslie Stahl a large book that was supposed to show the work the administration had done on health care. The book had words but not about health care.** Seth Meyers had a hilarious take on the way Trump is bitching about the interview: The TV lady was very mean to me. That could be said about a few interviews lately. He can dish it out but…

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it and eventually they will believe it. –Adolf Hitler

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Keith Raniere has been sentenced to 120 years in prison.

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Fuck the bloated Nazi. –John Cusack

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Sasha Baron Cohen is back with Borat and a nice op ed in Time magazine.

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Benedict Cumberbatch will be in Spiderman 3 as Dr. Strangelove.

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Lindsey Graham was on Fox begging for $ after Harrison, he opponent brought in big $.

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Trump supporters support him because of the way they see the world and their place in it. – Hillary Clinton

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Scary Clown 45 told his Senate to stop talking to the Dems about stimulus then tried to walk it back a bit. He is just doing everything he can to not get elected. What a big FU to the country.** Major news outlets the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post are keeping their reporters safe and not sending them on the Trump trail.

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Glow was suddenly cancelled. What??

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Cecily Strong has a new show with Keegan Michael Key, Alan Cumming, Kristen Chenowith and Fred Armisen on Apple tv.

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The last debate showed a very restrained Trump. He actually said, “I appreciate that” when he was allowed to talk another minute. He actually did shut up and listen. It’s pretty sad when we praise him for behaving normally. Biden sounded quite regal and made sense but more detail would have been nice. I am not sure why Scary Clown got on Biden for selling pillows and sheets.

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The anonymous man that everyone was trying to figure out in 2018 has been revealed. Miles Taylor wrote a NY Times op ed and book, A Warning that gave insight to the Trump administration. Taylor, who was critical of Trump was the chief of staff to Dept. of Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielson. He played a part in separating the immigrant children from their parents.

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Pence’s fly is on a ventilator. –Bill Maher

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Farmer welfare will reach a record $46 billion this year.

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Quibi is shutting down after 6 months.

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Niecy Nash is getting a talk show.

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Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are engaged.

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Tatum O’Neal allegedly tried to commit suicide.

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Larry David married Ashley Underwood.

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Engaging with assholes on the internet is like trying to down a vampire with your own blood. –Andy Richter

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Ya gotta check out the Ramona Fradon cartoon with Trump and Wonder Woman.

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Critics are raving about Michelle Pfeiffer in French Exit.

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Suburban women, will you please like me? – Donald Trump** How could Iowa possibly still be half for Trump? WTF?

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R.I.P. Jack Legend, Bob Gibson, Lillian Brown, Irma Dryden, Johnny Nash, Tommy Rall, Desiree S. Anzalone, covid -19 victims, Margaret Nolan, Tom Kennedy, Jeff Tolbert, Saint Dog, Roberta McCain, Rhonda Fleming, Erin Wall, Joe Morgan, Bert Quint, the Amazing Randi, Spencer Davis, James Redford, Viola Smith, Murray Schisgal , DeOndra Dxon, Maurice Segal, Ming Cho Lee ,Eddie Van Halen, the victims of Nice, victims of the typhoon Molave, victims of the Senegal shipwreck, Lou Pallo, Sean Connery, Billy Joe Shaver and Conchata Ferrell.

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President Donald J. Trump Has Signed More Legislation Than The Main-Stream Media Would Ever Report Or Acknowledge As Of August 2017. We Can Handle The Facts. But, The Democrats Would Lose Their Minds More Than They Have Already!

Signed on August 23, 2017

H.R.2288 - Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017

Signed on August 22, 2017

H.R. 339 - An Act to amend Public Law 94–241 with respect to the Northern Mariana Islands.

Signed on August 22, 2017

H.J.Res. 76 - Joint Resolution granting the consent and approval of Congress for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, and the District of Columbia to a enter into a compact relating to the establishment of the Washington Metrorail...

Signed on August 18, 2017

H.R. 873 - Global War on Terrorism War Memorial Act

Signed on August 18, 2017

H.R. 510 - Rapid DNA Act of 2017

Signed on August 18, 2017

H.R. 374 - An Act to remove the sunset provision of section 203 of Public Law 105–384, and for other purposes

Signed on August 18, 2017

H.R. 2430 - FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017

Signed on August 12, 2017

S. 114 - VA Choice and Quality Employment Act of 2017

Signed on August 4, 2017

H.R. 3298 – Wounded Officers Recovery Act, 2017

Signed on August 2, 2017

H.R. 3364 - Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act

Signed on June 30, 2017

H.R. 1238 - Securing our Agriculture and Food Act

Signed on June 27, 2017

S. 1083 - An Act to amend section 1214 of title 5, United States Code, to provide for stays during a period that the Merit Systems Protection Board lacks a quorum

Signed on June 23, 2017

S. 1094 - Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017

Signed on June 14, 2017

H.R. 657 - Follow the Rules Act

Signed on June 6, 2017

H.R. 375 - An Act to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 719 Church Street in Nashville, Tennessee, as the “Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse”.

Signed on June 6, 2017

H.R. 366 - DHS Stop Asset and Vehicle Excess Act or the DHS SAVE Act

Signed on June 2, 2017

S. 583 - American Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017

Signed on June 2, 2017

S. 419 - Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2017

Signed on May 17, 2017

H.J.Res. 66 - Joint Resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to savings arrangements established by States for non-governmental employees.

Signed on May 16, 2017

H.R. 274 - Modernizing Government Travel Act

Signed on May 12, 2017

S. 496 -An Act to repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled “Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform”.

Signed on May 8, 2017

H.R. 534 - U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act

Signed on May 5, 2017

H.R. 244 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017

Signed on April 28, 2017

H.J.Res. 99 - Joint Resolution making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes.

Signed on April 19, 2017

S.J.Res. 36 - Joint Resolution providing for the appointment of Roger W. Ferguson as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Signed on April 19, 2017

S.J.Res. 35 - Joint Resolution providing for the appointment of Michael Govan as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Signed on April 19, 2017

S.J.Res. 30 - Joint Resolution providing for the reappointment of Steve Case as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Signed on April 19, 2017

S. 544 - An Act to amend the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 to modify the termination date for the Veterans Choice Program, and for other purposes.

Signed on April 18, 2017

H.R. 353 - Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act of 2017

Signed on April 13, 2017

H.J.Res. 67 - Joint Resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to savings arrangements established by quaSigned on April 13, 2017

H.J.Res. 43 - Joint Resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to compliance with title X requirements by project...

Signed on April 3, 2017

S.J.Res. 34 - Joint Resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to “Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband...

Signed on April 3, 2017

H.R. 1228 - An Act to provide for the appointment of members of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance to replace members whose terms expire during 2017, and for other purposes.

Signed on April 3, 2017

H.J.Res. 83, which nullifies the Department of Labor's rule titled Clarification of Employer's Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain an Accurate Record of Each Recordable Injury and Illness; and

Signed on April 3, 2017

H.J.Res. 69, which nullifies the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service's final rule relating to non-subsistence takings of wildlife on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska

Signed on March 31, 2017

S.J.Res.1 - Joint Resolution approving the location of a memorial to commemorate and honor the members of the Armed Forces who served on active duty in support of Operation Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield.

Signed on March 31, 2017

H.R.1362 - An Act to name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Pago Pago, American Samoa, the Faleomavaega Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin VA Clinic.

Signed on March 31, 2017

H.J.Res.42 - Joint Resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to drug testing of unemployment compensation applicants.

Signed on March 28, 2017

S. 305 - Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017

Signed on March 27, 2017

H.J.Res.57 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to accountability and State plans under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Signed on March 27, 2017

H.J. Res. 58 - Joint Resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to teacher preparation issues.

Signed on March 27, 2017

H.J. Res. 44 - Joint Resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior relating to Bureau of Land Management regulations that establish the procedures used to prepare, revise, or amend land use plans pursuant to the Federal Land

Signed on March 27, 2017

H.J. Res. 37 - Joint Resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration relating to the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Signed on March 21, 2017

S.442 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration Transition Authorization Act of 2017

Signed on March 13, 2017

H.R.609 - To designate the Department of Veterans Affairs health care center in Center Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as the "Abie Abraham VA Clinic".

Signed on February 28, 2017

H.R. 321 - Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act

Signed on February 28, 2017

H.R. 255 - Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act

Signed on February 28, 2017

H.J.Res. 40 - Joint Resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Social Security Administration relating to Implementation of the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007.

Signed on February 16, 2017

H.J.Res.38 - Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule.

Signed on February 14, 2017

H.J.Res.41 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of a rule submitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to "Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers".

Signed on January 31, 2017

H.R.72 - GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017

Signed on January 20, 2017

S.84 - A bill to provide for an exception to a limitation against appointment of persons as Secretary of Defense within seven years of relief from active duty as a regular commissioned officer of the Armed Forces.

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‘I’m 17 Years Old, and I’m Terrified’: The Issues Our Readers Hope Come Up at the Democratic Debate

Discussions about health care have dominated the six previous nights of debates among the Democratic presidential candidates. Ahead of Wednesday night’s debate in Atlanta, we asked our readers what issue they most wanted the candidates to address, and why it mattered to them and their families.

One issue stood out: climate change.

About two-thirds of the more than 1,000 readers we heard from across the country said they wanted the next president to aggressively try to head off a climate catastrophe. These included young people grappling with the desire to grow a family ahead of a looming crisis, and grandparents fearful their youngest relatives would inherit a damaged world.

A middle schooler in Havertown, Pa., wrote simply: “I am young and want to live.”

In addition to the environment, readers cited health care costs, an economy that leaves many behind, gun control and student loan debt as the issues they most wanted the Democratic candidates to address.

Below is a selection of responses, which have been lightly edited.

Make climate change a priority

I am a young woman who cannot imagine a happy future because of these issues that older generations have caused.

I have lost hope in having children because it would be selfish of me to bring children into this doomed natural world. — Molly Meehan, Yardley, Pa.

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I live on a beach, and rising water threatens to inundate my home and others. Sea walls that go unrepaired, and roadways and bridges that need replacement or repair mean I cannot count on escaping the waters if I need to. — Mary Klein, St. Pete Beach, Fla.

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My home state of Michigan may become a last refuge from rising seas and worsening droughts. I’m afraid of what a rise in population will do to the beautiful natural spaces I love.

And the little things scare me, too. The uncertain future of chocolate and coffee, in part due to climate change, is terrifying in its own way. — Hannah Ellery, 20, Traverse City, Mich.

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I live in southwest Colorado. Despite having an extraordinary amount of snow last winter, we are back in a severe drought. Our snowpack is changing. We are experiencing more severe wildfires.

I’m concerned about other countries and the impact the warming temperatures are having on them and also on places in our own country, with increased flooding and more severe storms. — Gail C. Harriss, Durango, Colo.

Strengthen our health care system

I am a single mother who is self-employed. My family depends on insurance from the Affordable Care Act. But the plans have become so expensive that just paying premiums pushes my business into the red some years.

You might imagine that I am a fan of “Medicare for all,” but I am not. I work in the health care industry and I know how complicated and traumatic it would be to try to overhaul the way health care providers and insurance companies interact.

I do not want to turn everything upside down. I just want the A.C.A. shored up so that it works for freelancers and small businesses. — Frances Verter, Maryland

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The high cost of our prescriptions in this country compared to the rest of the world’s is my greatest concern.

In 1998, my sister and I spent three weeks in Spain. She became ill. I was sent to the pharmacy for her medicine. I gave them the prescription and they gave me the meds.

I paid a small amount, under $5, for what turned out to be a form of penicillin. From that moment on, I came to believe that there was something very wrong with our pharmaceutical companies and the greed of it all. — Jean Zappia, Morehead, N.C.

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I work in health care. I see the devastation our health care system causes. The current stranglehold insurance companies have on medicine in our country is destroying us from the inside out. — Yvonne McCarthy, Kansas

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I was diagnosed with breast cancer last year, and without health insurance the cost of my treatments would have been a quarter of a million dollars out of pocket.

When families are facing a devastating health crisis, they shouldn’t also face a devastating financial crisis. — Ann Dixon, Pennsylvania

Have a plan for implementing and managing health care changes

I am a cancer patient. I have to live in fear of losing everything I worked for my whole life, to stay alive.

I want to hear how candidates will get their idea passed through Congress and how it will be implemented. Otherwise ideas mean nothing. — Judith Salyer, Ypsilanti, Mich.

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Thousands of Americans will be out of jobs if we move toward abolishing private health care. I want to know how politicians plan to transition the jobs that they will be eliminating.

I work in insurance and I know how many jobs there are in back-office functions in billing, collections, claim handling and customer service. Most of these jobs require a very specific set of skills that will not necessarily transfer to other industries. — Alex Sam, Philadelphia

Make our schools safe

As a survivor who was wounded in a school shooting, I have been waiting for a candidate who is passionate about the topic of gun violence and reform.

With Beto out of the race, I am looking for the person willing to take on this issue with as much passion and resolve as he did. — Taylor Schumann, Charleston, S.C.

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I’m 17 years old, and I’m terrified. That my friends will be killed. That I will be shot down dead. All I want to do is go to college, but what if I’m not safe there? — Rachel Ellynn M., Missouri

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I have a high school son and a husband who is a high school math teacher. With every school shooting I hear about, I become more nervous about it hitting home. — Kristy Fitzgerald, Frisco, Texas

Make our economy work for everyone

The rate at which the economy is changing affects all of us. I used to work at a now-closed retail establishment. My boyfriend worked in a distribution center. He saw the company automate jobs away. — Nicole Sanchez, Columbia, S.C.

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I live in Dayton, Ohio, and our county swung for President Trump, yet also elected Obama. People are struggling. Our community has job openings but a serious skills gap. Workforce issues are huge here. Just because the overall economy is booming doesn’t mean we’re not being left out.

We need a president that will fight for working-class people and prioritize programs that get people the training and support they need to compete in today’s global economy. Our middle class has been hollowed out. I live in a city with 7,000 vacant structures. Wall Street and corporate greed have left the Midwest behind.

We need someone who will focus on supporting programs that help economic mobility across the country. — Bryan Stewart, Dayton, Ohio

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I make six figures, but between me and my husband, we can hardly afford to pay all our bills. With day care and health care costs for two kids, we have no money to save.

If this was 30 years ago, a boomer would have a substantially more comfortable life at a similar life stage.

My generation is already doomed to be a lost generation. I want to make my children’s economic future less bleak. — Justine Graham, Plymouth, Minn.

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Where is this tight job market and booming economy everyone is talking about? It doesn’t exist in my world, and I am a college-educated experienced professional. — Jane O’Donovan, Dunedin, Fla.

Reset how America engages with the world

I am a Vietnam combat veteran and come from a military family. I visited Vietnam last year and I can tell you that after 50 years, the effects of abhorrent combat behavior such as the My Lai Massacre continue to haunt the Vietnamese people.

Pardoning war criminals endangers the entire military community, and it sends a message to our troops that there are no repercussions for criminal behavior on the battlefield. — Mark McVay, Golden, Colo.

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When my preteen son was adopted from Korea, I was so proud to bring him home to us in America. I held him in my arms just a few short weeks after we brought him home, and wept while listening to Obama’s inauguration.

It felt so right.

We were once the nation that gave hope to democracies around the globe, including Korea. We have our share of historical evildoing, but after World War II, American soldiers handed out Hershey bars. We’ve built hospitals in war zones and we put our money where our mouth was in upholding ideals with aid. — Sophie Johnson, Arlington, Va.

Help pay down student loans

I pay about one-third of my family’s income to student loans. This is crippling to a growing family.

It would be a huge boost to our family and to our spending if some or all was forgiven. — Jacob Theurer, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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I pay more than my rent in student loan payments each month. I have paid about $20,000 over the last four years and I still owe almost as much as I borrowed.

My interest rates range from 5 to 7 percent. This financial situation is holding me back from goals like owning a home or starting a business. — Megan Gileza, Baltimore

Ensure women’s rights

My daughter is a scientist. She will continue her graduate studies next year. I want her to live in a world where her gender, studies and intellect matter to the country, to the world and to the future. — Susan Goldstein, New York

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As a young woman, I feel my right to reproductive health services is under attack, especially in the Southern states.

I want to feel safe in this country and know that if I ever needed it, I could access specialized female health care without significant hurdles. I know that when women are properly cared for and provided the care they need (whether it be safe abortions, contraception, or necessary labs and tests) the entire community benefits in some capacity. — Isabel Watkins, Carrboro, N.C.

Improve the quality of public education

My community has an excellent education system, but looking around the country, you see the stark disparities so that our citizens cannot participate in our democracy intelligently.

It might be the downfall of our country. — Diane Pursley, Lexington, Mass.

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I live in Florida and have two kids. One is in middle school and another is in high school.

Education quality here is less than excellent. I would like to see kids having a well-rounded, meaningful education, instead of being bombarded by standardized tests. — Teresa Restom Gaskill, Florida

Defeat President Trump

The only issue for the election is removing Trump and Republican senators, not radical proposals that have no chance of voter or congressional approval. — Jim Austet, Colorado

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Get Trump out of office. He is the greatest threat to the United States, its values and its place in the world in my lifetime. — Joe Distelheim, South Carolina

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At 84, I have never been so scared for our country. I see the destruction of our democracy as the most critical.

I will not live to see it repaired, but maybe I will live long enough to see this president removed and see his corrupt administration held accountable.

This affects everything we need to care for our people. — Sara Davis Huff, Atlanta

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Trump's first medical checkup as president set for Friday

WASHINGTON/January 12, 2018(AP)(STL.News)— President Donald Trump will be the patient, not the commander in chief offering comfort, when he visits the Walter Reed military hospital on Friday.

Trump is headed to the medical facility in Bethesda, Maryland, outside Washington, for his first medical checkup as president. But what has been a fairly routine exam for previous officeholders has taken on outsized importance in the age of Trump, given the tone of some of his tweets, comments attributed to some of his close advisers and Trump’s recent slurring of words on national TV.

Some of the comments were published in a new book about Trump’s first year, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has denounced as “complete fantasy” for portraying her 71-year-old boss as undisciplined and in over his head as president.

Trump himself has pushed back hard against any suggestion that he’s mentally unfit, declaring himself “a very stable genius.”

Some questions and answers about Trump’s physical:

WHAT QUESTIONS WILL THE EXAM ANSWER?

The exam, lasting several hours, will measure things like Trump’s blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, heart rate and weight.

Conclusions about his mental acuity aren’t expected. The White House said Trump will not undergo a psychiatric exam. Officials did not address a different type of screening: assessments of cognitive status that examine neurologic functions including memory. Cognitive assessments aren’t routine in standard physicals, though they recently became covered in Medicare’s annual wellness visits for seniors.

IS THE EXAM MANDATORY?

No, but modern presidents typically undergo them regularly and release a doctor’s report declaring they are “fit for duty.”

WHAT’S KNOWN ABOUT TRUMP’S HEALTH?

Two months before the November 2016 election, Trump released a five-paragraph letter from his longtime physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, who concluded that Trump “is in excellent physical health.” A year earlier, Bornstein said in a December 2015 letter: “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

The 2016 letter put Trump’s blood pressure and cholesterol measurements in the healthy range, though he uses a cholesterol-lowering statin medication. His EKG, chest X-ray, echocardiogram and blood sugar were normal. The 6-foot-3 Trump weighed 236 pounds, and his body mass index, or BMI, of 29.5 put him in the category of being overweight for his height.

Trump takes Crestor for his cholesterol, a low-dose aspirin for heart attack prevention, Propecia to treat male-pattern baldness and antibiotics for rosacea. The doctor’s 2016 letter stated that Trump’s testosterone level, 441.6, was in the normal range, as were his PSA reading for prostate abnormalities and tests of his liver and thyroid.

Trump was 70 when he took office on Jan. 20, 2017, making him the oldest person ever elected to the nation’s highest office.

WHAT ABOUT HIS LIFESTYLE?

He leads a largely sedentary lifestyle compared to his most recent predecessors, and has said he gets most of his exercise playing golf.

The American Heart Association says that the best types of exercise increase the heart rate and make a person breathe heavily, but that activities like golf don’t provide as much cardiovascular benefit since they don’t require much extra effort. The association suggests players walk the golf course instead of renting a golf cart. Trump drives a cart from hole to hole.

President Barack Obama played basketball, lifted weights, worked out on an elliptical machine or treadmill and played golf. George W. Bush traded running for mountain biking to preserve his knees. He also cleared brush from his central Texas ranch during the 100-degree summers. Bill Clinton was a runner who installed a jogging track at the White House. He also played golf and indulged in Big Macs.

Trump likes fast food, too, along with well-done steaks, chocolate cake and double scoops of vanilla ice cream. He reportedly downs 12 Diet Cokes a day. In their recent book, “Let Trump Be Trump,” former top campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie described the four major food groups on Trump’s campaign plane as “McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, pizza and Diet Coke.”

The advisers also said one Trump meal in Chicago consisted of two Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches and a chocolate milkshake.

WHAT MEDICAL INFORMATION WILL THE WHITE HOUSE RELEASE?

How much of Trump’s health information the public gets to see is up to the president, but Sanders said she expects the White House to release the same kind of details past presidents have made public. Trump’s doctor will release a brief statement on Friday after the exam, and then join her at Tuesday’s briefing to offer a more detailed readout and answer questions.

Obama’s three medical reports included sections on vital statistics; physical exam by system, such as eyes, pulmonary and gastrointestinal; lab results; his past medical and surgical history; his social history; and medications, among others.

WHO WILL EXAMINE TRUMP?

Trump’s official doctor is Ronny L. Jackson, a Navy rear admiral who was the emergency medicine doctor for a shock trauma platoon in Taqaddum, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom, according to his Navy bio. Jackson also provided care for Obama. Jackson became a White House physician in 2006. He has overseen health care for the Cabinet and senior staff, served as physician supervisor for the Camp David presidential retreat and led the White House Medical Unit.

Jackson will examine the president and line up specialists to conduct other parts of the exam. The White House has released no information about the other doctors who will examine Trump.

HAS TRUMP EVER BEEN TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL?

Trump has visited twice as president to cheer wounded service members. He awarded Purple Hearts during visits in April and December. ___ Follow Darlene Superville on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dsuperville

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Doctors Found Jet Fuel in Veteran’s Lungs. He Can’t Get Full Benefits.

The lungs Bill Thompson was born with told a gruesome, harrowing and unmistakable tale to Dr. Anthony Szema when he analyzed them and found the black spots, scarring, partially combusted jet fuel and metal inside.

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The retired Army staff sergeant had suffered catastrophic lung damage from breathing incinerated waste burned in massive open-air pits and probably other irritants during his tour of duty in Iraq.

“There’s black spots that are burns, particles all over; there’s metal. It was all scarred,” said Szema, a pulmonologist and professor who studies toxic exposures and examined Thompson’s preserved lung tissue. “There was no gas exchange anywhere in that lung.”

Thompson is still alive, surviving on his second transplanted set of lungs. Yet the story burned into the veteran’s internal organs is not one that has been entirely convincing to the U.S. government.

The military has not linked the burn pits to illness. That means many who were exposed to burn pits and are sick do not qualify for benefits under any existing program.

Retirement and health benefits for members of the military depend on factors like length of service, active or reserve status, deployments to combat zones and whether the military considers specific injuries or illnesses to be service-related. Thompson has been able to get care through the Department of Veterans Affairs for his lung disease but has not been able to secure other benefits, like early retirement pay.

“I was denied my Army retirement because if it was not a combat action, then I don’t receive that retirement,” Thompson said at a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing last week on service members’ exposures to toxic substances.

Thompson is one of at least 3.5 million veterans since 2001 who have served in war zones where the U.S. military decided to dispose of its trash by burning it, according to VA estimates.

It’s not clear how many people within that population have gotten sick from exposure. Only a small fraction — 234,000 — have enrolled in the VA’s online burn pit registry. Veterans’ advocacy groups have said the majority of claims to the agency stemming from toxic exposures are denied, even as most former service members report contacts with toxins in their deployments.

Soldiers returning from tours in the global war on terror have reported debilitating illnesses almost from its beginning, but got little traction with the military. This year, though, the likelihood of congressional action is high, with Democrats expressing interest and a president who suspects burn pits are to blame for his son’s death.

President Joe Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015 at age 46. He had deployed to Iraq in two sites with burn pits — at Baghdad and Balad — around the same time Thompson was at Camp Striker, near the Baghdad airport.

“Because of exposure to burn pits — in my view, I can’t prove it yet — he came back with stage 4 glioblastoma,” Biden said in a 2019 speech.

In testimony at the March 10 hearing, Shane Liermann, who works for the group Disabled American Veterans, told the committee that 78% of burn pit claims are denied. “Part of the problem is VA is not recognizing that exposure as being toxic exposures,” Liermann said.

Aleks Morosky, with the Wounded Warrior Project, said that in his group’s survey of 28,000 veterans last year, 71% said they had “definitely” been exposed to toxic substances or hazardous chemicals, and 18% said they had “probably” been exposed. Half of those people rated their health as poor or fair. Only about 16% of the service members who believed they had suffered exposure said they got treatment from the VA, and 11% said they were denied treatment.

Thompson, who is 49, said care for his lung disease is often slow and sometimes denied. It took the VA three years to approve an air purifier for his home to filter out allergens, and the VA refused to help pay for the removal of dust-trapping carpets, he said.

Thompson’s presence at the hearing, though, was not just meant to put the spotlight on the VA. The military’s entire approach to toxic exposure is a morass that leaves ill soldiers and veterans like Thompson trying to navigate a bureaucracy more labyrinthine than the Pentagon’s corridors.

After Thompson was shipped back to Fort Stewart in Georgia, his medical ordeal was at first addressed within the military system, including a year at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where doctors found his lungs filled with titanium, magnesium, iron and silica.

Yet he said he didn’t qualify for the Army’s traumatic-injury insurance program, which might have helped him pay to retrofit his home in West Virginia. And he can’t get his military retirement pay until he’s 60.

“I may not live to be age 60. I turn 50 this year,” Thompson said.

Illustrating the problem, several officials at the hearing with the Department of Defense, the Army and the National Guard were unable to explain why Thompson — with 23 years of service between the Guard and Army — might have such a hard time qualifying for retirement benefits when the evidence of his lungs and the findings of the Army’s own doctors are so vivid and extreme.

For advocates who have been working on the problem for decades, it reminds them all too vividly of Agent Orange, which the military is still coming to grips with.

“It’s already been, since the first Persian Gulf [War] — we’re talking 30 years — and since burn pits were again active, since 2001,” said Liermann. “We’re way behind the curve here.”

Although Congress has done relatively little to deal with burn pits, many members seem to at least be thinking along the same lines. The Senate Veterans’ Affairs hearing promised to be something of a kickoff to a year when lawmakers are poised to offer a slew of bills designed to confront the military’s inability to care for service members poisoned during their deployments.

“Make no mistake about it,” said the committee chairman, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.). “We hold these hearings for two reasons: to gather information for the committee members and to help educate the VA that they might take action before Congress does.”

Republicans have also shown growing interest in the problem, offering targeted bills to ensure a handful of toxin-related diseases are covered by the VA.

At the hearing, conservative freshman Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) seemed especially moved.

“We got to do a better job of taking care of our young people,” Tuberville said. “If we’re going to go to war, we got to understand we got to pay the price for it on both ends.”

There is also likely to be high-profile support and attention when revised legislation starts rolling out this spring.

The broadest bill likely to be offered was first introduced by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in the Senate and Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) in the House in late 2019, with a boost from former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart and a cadre of 9/11 responders who are turning their attention to toxic exposures.

Indeed, Ruiz and Gillibrand’s legislation is modeled in part on the 9/11 health act that passed in 2015. The burn pit bill would remove the burden of proving a service-related connection.

It would vastly simplify the lives of people like Thompson.

“I am a warrior of the United States of America. I gave my lungs for my country,” Thompson said.

He was cut off before he could finish, but his prepared remarks concluded, “Hopefully, after hearing my story, it will bring awareness for not only me but others who are battling the same or similar injuries related to burn pit exposures from Iraq or Afghanistan.”

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