Report: Sharon’s Doctors Concealed Info
Excerpt;
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s health problems were more serious than doctors indicated before the stroke that has left him comatose, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday.”
Barak, of the IRIS blog has been out front on this story since his first report on Sharon’s condition shortly after his first stroke. His report Sharon Doctors Admit to Coverup of Major Heart Disease is once again out front of MSM.
IMRA adds a distinct political dimension to this entire affair, which this blog and others have harped on;
Excerpts;
“[IMRA: It is highly doubtful that the decision to conceal PM Sharon’s condition was made by the doctors rather than ultimately by people who are still in key positions in the government. If these people felt it was proper to lie to the public about Sharon’s health out of electoral considerations, one can only wonder what else they may be concealing in order to assure a Kadima victory.]”
Report: “Hadassah Hospital spokeswoman Yael Bossem-Levy dismissed the Haaretz report as containing nothing new. ‘Everything that appears in the item was discussed at the news conference’ where the hole in the septum was disclosed, she said.”
“Senior doctors said this usually requires early treatment with blood-thinners and cardiac catheterization, as the cardiologists and neurologists at Hadassah had recommended.”
“But they said it also required closer surveillance, because the blood thinner Sharon had received could have been extremely dangerous, due to the additional disease discovered, cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), which is liable to make cerebral hemorrhaging extremely hard to treat – as was the case.”
“Medical sources said that Sharon’s doctors had an ethical obligation to tell the prime minister and his family, as well as his confidants and advisers, of the risks involved in giving him the blood thinners.”
“They said the doctors should also have reported the early signs of
hemorrhaging and warned that an emergency evacuation to Hadassah might be necessary.”
“One of Israel’s leading cardiologists said yesterday … ‘It was wrong of Sharon to resume his work and to stay at Sycamore Ranch, far from Hadassah…'”
“‘Sharon should have been resting, close to the hospital where the doctors treated him and knew his medical history. He should have been in a protected, comfortable environment. That’s exactly the `medical bulletproof vest’ he should have been given…'”
Meretz MKs Call for Inquiry into Concealment of Sharon’s Medical Condition
Commentary;
Although this author abhors Meretz and everything they stand for, they are 1,000 % correct when they say that if “inquiry into Sharon’s health and the concealment of his condition from the public proves to be accurate, the affair would be ‘one of the largest political scandals ever in Israel.'”
This author will go further by saying that if the allegations of Haaretz, numerous blogs such as IRIS and numerous unimpeachable medical experts are borne out, this would constitute easily THE largest, worst political scandal in modern Jewish history.
The bad guys, from the same club as those who got away with the Rabin case, framing Yigal Amir for the assassination, are caught with their pants down and there is no way to cover-up or pretty-up this affair.
In short, if these allegations are true and accurate, this cast of schemers: Omri, Weisglass, Ehud Olmert and more are deserving of removal from office, by force if necessary, trial, conviction and prison lock-up throwing away the key — for all time. MB