Thanks but no thanks

Posted on March 29, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |

Eduardo Pontaoe
29 Mar 2007

 

Fernando P. Estrada M.D. FACS,

Well, thanks for the invite. Your gesture as a gentleman is highly appreciated.

Let me address where you are coming from. You’re in that little Moravian town Bethlehem, PA with an insignificant clinic along the muddy banks of the Monocacy Creek. It’s a dying town with population…exactly according to 2000 census…71, 329…where the demographics is pathetic: Whites 81.85%, Blacks 3.64%, Asian .03% Hispanics 18.23%. That’s the set-up where 20% of the population is below poverty level.

There’s a lot of people on welfare, on handouts where you practice medicine, doc. Your practice is like a vulture picking on the carcass of a dead horse. When Bethlehem Steel folded in 1995 it brought down everything with it. The town’s only newspaper Globe Times ceased publication in 1991 and replaced by the Morning Call of Allentown and the Express Time of Easton. What makes Bethlehem alive is Lehigh University, its anchor.

The hospital you proudly proclaimed St. Luke’s Hospital Health Network listed you… as a general surgeon not a vascular surgeon… you claimed you are. If the network has your facts right, you could not be in two places at the same time.

To make it straight, in Chicago I haven’t seen a surgeon with two specialties as done in residency especially in surgery. Where did you do residency doc, Jamaica? You also bragged the hospital have 450 beds. It does not make sense. With a meager population of 71,329 where will you get enough patients to load up the hospital unless everybody is dying or sick?

For your info, St Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago has only 450 beds with Chicago’s population of 4.5 million. I am sorry doc to say this; you’re lying thru your teeth.

Now, we go to Velasco. The Sunday Punch dictum, “No man is to be reverenced more than the truth”. I fight for the truth and fight also for those who cannot fight for themselves. If you could not understand the simplicity of it, you better take a dip at the Monocacy Creek to clear up your mind. The least you did that blow this thing over the top, was your hubris in sending that letter to Velasco gambling that posters like me at the Forum will just roll over and play dead.

It was gigantic mistake, you tasted your own medicine that nobody did to you before. You haven’t seen anything yet. Every time, somebody like you post in the Forum, its open season. I cannot allow your kind to run rough shod on anybody.

 Was I ticked off or felt jealousy on your added acronym FACS? Hell, no! To me, it’s just an embellishment. You can do that to your friend Velasco who lives in the Philippines. I live in Chicago, doc, you hit that hard on your head not like you deep in the Hillbilly Mountains of eastern Pennsylvania.

And if I am looking for a doctor I won’t even bother to call you. Thanks but no thanks. I have doctors here with PhDs in medicine who never wasted time adding that self-serving FACS to their names. These doctors, most of them, teach at Rush University or Northwestern University School of Medicine. They don’t practice in the ghetto.

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