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Minister Of Health Donville Inniss In An Interview With David Ellis Denies Interest In Sparman Clinic
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Just as I expected, you disagree with a Dem and they resort to insults and calling bloggers names.
For you information, I am not a backside. Deal with the issues like Crusoe asked and cut out the derogatory name calling if you want to be taken seriously. But this is the trend with most Dems on this blog, they don’t answer questions and when the truth is put to them, they resort to insults. Yes, Crusoe, this is a spin doctor, if ever there was one!
And like you said, verity, the truth is uncomfortable for you Dems.
Please clean up your act for 2011.
The MOH has not addressed this matter at all, he has confidence in his board, he said. The doctor is recalled and he still does not say anything, who is the minister? But wait, where is Senator Irene Sandiford-Garner in all this, wasn’t she given full responsibility for the QEH by David Thompson? The Dems are only good in opposition!
The minister has not answered the questions raised. Did he or did he not called Dr Lewis and asked for the patient to be transferred to Sparman’s clinic? Was Dr Sparman allowed into the STAT room demanding the patient to be transferred to his clinic? Who called Dr Sparman and the MOH? These are legitimate questions that need answers not the usual DLP spin.
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@ Apollo 13
Do you remember the West Indies cricket tour to New Zealand in 80/81, when the bowling was so fast that the NZ umpires say that they could not see the ball in order to give catches behind the bat?Well the DLP is dealing with a similar problem here, Sir. THE BOWLING IS FAST AND IT IN THE CORRIDOR OF UNCERTAINTY!
These folk have little respect for the electorate………the same electorate to whom they gave free education so that they can read and write and understand.
Now you cant expect a medical illiterate to engage me in things medical, nor can you expect legal illiterates to engage the trained lawyers who post on BU………..but these morons still try.
Man it is a pleasure to pee on thier pissy puerile pithy posts.
Anyway David, Hants, Crusoe Pat and my other medical students in BU medical college my ppt as ordered by the “boss” will soon be transmitted. I looking for a few more photos.
How will the standard of BU fall when they have resident scholars on “staff”?
How will those who only expect to win games by SPINNING defeat BU whose pace attack is rampant rapid and retributive? Really!
Can anyone HONESTLY and ACCURATELY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS THAT DAVID ELLIS CAN NOT ASK THE MINISTER?
Appolo asks …….. and reasonably so
The minister has not answered the questions raised.
Did he or did he not called Dr Lewis and asked for the patient to be transferred to Sparman’s clinic?Was Dr Sparman allowed into the STAT room demanding the patient to be transferred to his clinic? WHY?
Who called Dr Sparman and the MOH? WHY?
Since Sparman is NOT authorised to be in the QEH A & E, why was he there? WHY have not the persons who admitted him there been suspended?
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And in since you aren’t astute enough to pick up why David Ellis was so keen on raising the question with Donville, it was in large part because Ellis wanted to show up the blogs as irresponsible!! MAN ELLIS REALLY KICK BU IN ITS FACE YESTERDAY. You can be so naiive sometimes it is unreal!!
The above is a comment by Verity. Are you saying the interview with David Ellis was staged? Why did he not ask the other hard questions? The media house always hang their hats on a matter being sub judice, is this the case here?
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I do not think that David Ellis seriously expected any other than the answer the MOH gave him.
The MOH deflected the question by telling David Ellis that as soon as a black man has a certain size wall house or drive a particular car etc, etc. The old tired rhetoric. Again I am not questioning the MOH’s wealth, I have no problem with what he has accumulated, good for him!! David would not have expected the MOH to say, yes I own shares in whoever’s company. But he should have followed up with … what about a family member????
All I am saying is, the Dems perpetuated a lot of inuendo against the BLP which they used to their advantage to win the election and now they are screaming bloody hell like in this instance. Hence the political gimmick of integrity legislation, but wait, 100 days aint gone yet? That was the implementation date!!!
Do unto others as you would have do unto you.
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Verity sounds a lot like Minister IN-iss to me
Does anyone agree with this observation
I mean the same arrogance is coming through and content analysis shows some words and phrases that sound pretty close to the Minister’s own mouthings at other times.
Anyway David , you can note his I.P and do the necessary. (If you know what I mean)–hint ! hint ! -
Yesterday we learnt that Minister Denis Lowe had to be admitted to the QEH. BU has had our differences with the Minister but at this time we wish him a speedy recovery.
Here is a PowerPoint on Deep vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism which it has been reported the Minister maybe suffering. Thanks to Doc GP.
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Dont worry with Verity or who he is.
The facts are that donville dexter dolores and the diotrophetic dunce can easily be likened as unto the DUKE!Remember the Grand Old Duke of York who had 10,000 men whom he marched up and down the hill? Well these dynamic dunces do the same.
Shall we suspend Ishmael ? or shall we call him back?
Now a real Caesar would have known that what exactly did happen would happen. After all, the people in the street saw it coming.THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET FORESAW A CALAMITY WITH FOUR VERY ILL CHILDREN AND NO SPECIALIST. [read about Caesar in Caesar Gallic Wars Book IV chapter 24 I think it is. Lool for the futurum iri and the futurum esse. Sweet man sweet!
aNOTHER THING. IF THE QUARTET OF DYNANIC DUNCES KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT PAEDIATRIC HEALTH STATISTICS AT QEH, THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN AT WHICH TIME OF YEAR VERY ILL CHILDREN TEND TO BE SEEN AT QEH
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What a laugh for the New Year. @ Dr. GP., Crusoe, Hants and Appollo keep up the licks with this new upstart.
To all BU regulars and even the newbies (including the diabolical verity) a pleasant, peaceful, productive and properous New Year. What do you think Dr. GP?
I did not drink at Christmas, but I having two tonight. Enjoy all.
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Dont worry with Verity or who he is.
The facts are that donville dexter dolores and the diotrophetic dunce can easily be likened as unto the DUKE!Remember the Grand Old Duke of York who had 10,000 men whom he marched up and down the hill? Well these dynamic dunces do the same.
Shall we suspend Ishmael ? or shall we call him back?
Now a real Caesar would have known that what exactly did happen would happen. After all, the people in the street saw it coming.THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET FORESAW A CALAMITY WITH FOUR VERY ILL CHILDREN AND NO SPECIALIST. [read about Caesar in Caesar Gallic Wars Book IV chapter 24 I think it is. Lool for the futurum iri and the futurum esse. Sweet man sweet!
aNOTHER THING. IF THE QUARTET OF DYNANIC DUNCES KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT PAEDIATRIC HEALTH STATISTICS AT QEH, THEY WOULD HAVE KNOWN AT WHICH TIME OF YEAR VERY ILL CHILDREN TEND TO BE SEEN AT QEH …………………..
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Some people feel that if you are black, live in a certain type of wall house and drive a certain type of vehicle that you are a Super Being and that you can be arrogant and walk around with an air that says I dont care bout nobody . “I got this and I got that so I dont care bout nobody. I can speak with a certain amount of pomp, pride and pretence present in primidonnas precariously perched on the pinnacle of pie in the sky pompasetting positions on the precipice of purgatory.”
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Pat
I prithee to play with your pretty P’s lol They are practical and pertinent.
You remind me of the day I cuss a stupid Health Sister at one of the Polyclinics. I hit she wid 12 words starting with I
Ignorant inept etc. She told the Senior Medical officer of Health [who destested her for her ignorance] that I cussed her so stink that she didnt understand a word I said!She was of course correct- she didnt underestand the I battery of words, none of which were stinking cuss words.
Soon Fumble will fire the fickle fraudulent failing friar, as he furtively flings his folly about.
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Flavor of the month, ya too sweet! LOl
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Flavour of the Month,
I agree, from the time I read that post I thought the same but I try to be fair and dont ascribe motives to anyone.
However, the arrogance came through as though…….. look how Inoballed David Ellis with my poor black man comment. Throw him off from asking me anything else or how dare you, David.
Every time there is a discussion on the MOH, people say he is very arrogant… I dont know if he is but it comes over that way.
I well remember soon after the DLP won the elections, during a Tuesday debate when they were fumbling through (as they still are doing) debating some bill, Mia Mottley got up on a point of order and offered some suggestions. The MOH jumped back up and said…..we aint want to hear anything from wunnuh, wunnah had wunnah time, now is we time and we gine do things to suit we. Then Chris Sinckler jumped up after in his contribution and said…… wunnuh had 14 years and we aint want to hear nothing from wunnuh.
Check Hansard if you doubt me!
No wonder the country aint going no where!
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@GP. Great presentation with those slides.Thanks to BU also. Very informative.
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Dear Jack Spratt and Verity:
Asking Dr. Georgie Porgie to diagnose Dr. Lowe via this blog is NOT the same as telemedicine.
The difference is that Dr. GP’s doagnosis will NOT be used to treat Dr. Lowe.
Dr. Lowe will be treated by the capable hands-on doctors at the QEH.
Dr. GP’s medical contributions to this blog have helped to educate us all.
And he was spot on re the late PM’s diagnosis and prognosis (foolish pastors notwithstanding)
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Thanks for the presentation GP.
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All of you guys or your parents paid for my education- long discarded my our authorities.
It takes less than a half hour to recover a ppt from my data base of those I have taught somewhere or to put one together at David’s request. I can do no less than to contribute in this small way.
If we all contribute our best to BU in 2011 HOW CAN THE STANDARD of BU DROP? AND HOW CAN BU BECOME IRRELEVANT TO THOSE WHO READ IT?
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From a clinical point of view VERITY is in all likelihood a Hemorrhoid. It takes time but rest assured they will go away with time and medication after much pain, or they will be excised at the request of the patient.
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no man
verity is just a pustule.
a little stick and he will burst, manREMEMBER pressure does burst pipe
BU COMMENTERS CAUSING PRESSURE SOMEWHERE
SO EXPECT PIPE TO BURSTverity will soon realize that his bovine excrememt wont be tolerated on BU and that his bovine excrememt wont stop the pressure from being applied
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@Bupps
So far the names we have are Tedroy Clarke, Sandra Roach, Natalia Peter, Jude the dude Eastmond.
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@GP
Some scary slides. What does this portend for the good Doc Lowe? It seems his ailment has been protracted which means they have had a challenge ‘thinning the clot’?
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David
As you would have figured the slides presented were taken from persons who had to be planted soon after . Most likely the dear doctor has not been so seriously afflicted as he is still with us.We should all pay attention to the things that may give rise to these maladies. Thats the real lesson of these slides.
There have been men who went home on retirement and spent to much time in the recliners given to them as “a going home ” present and they soon literally “went home.”
Around this time of the year many years ago we admitted an elderly lady who had been actively tilling the fields all year. She caught a cold as her annual vacation from the plantation fell due, and took to bed. When she was admitted, we soon diagnosed her as having leukemia, but it was the pulmonary embolus that brought her to the hospital that killed her….. not the cancer.
Of course I dont know anything about the goodly doctor’s case, but he might have been ill otherwise, for an other wise relatively simple manner and then developed a DVT and an embolus as a result of his immobilisation. Thats quite possible.
The medicine that he is using for his other maladies might have given the doctors a challenge in the control of the anticoagulants he was given for his emboli.
Remember that whereas as many emboli are secondary to known DVT, often the embolus in the lung presents before one experiences symptoms of the DVT.
sO WE NEED TO STAY WELL HYDRATED AND EVEN WHEN SEATED KEEP THE FEET MOVING AND THE CALF MUSCLES IN ACTION.
HOPE THIS HELPS
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OH David
The doctor might just have been travelling a lot and not paying attention to moving his feet or taking in lots of fluid, or just working long hours at his desk and not working his feet and got the DVT FOLLOWED BY THE EMBOUS.The awful pictures say look out or this will happen to me!
the text slides say DO THIS SO YOU WONT END UP LIKE THE CHAPS IN THE AWFUL PICTURES. -
still under disguise in 2011
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‘VERITY’ sounds alot like the minister or his sister who was given the contract to run the canteen at Springer, depriving those young athletes of the good food they were accustom to.
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Joe Payne, sometime MP for St. James North died at 49 of what? and his wife died a few years later at 60 of what?
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I am still waiting to hear from the Chairman on the temporary recall of Dr Ishamel, he usually has so much to say and like a mr know it all ……arrogant. But birds of a feather flock together….just like the minister…arrogant.
Where is Senator Irene Sandiford Garner, wasn’t she given total responsibility for the QEH? Remember how the opposition started telling the MOH that he was now only responsible for vector control? We haven’t heard from her since she named and shamed people who owed QEH. Or was she only to be the debt collector?
Omigosh, this country is being run by a bunch of people who just dont know what to do, they are out of their depths.
BAMP is very quiet, they seem to be playing a wait and see game, but wait, what happen to the earlier dispute, did they eventually got rid of the doctor who filed an injunction against the QEH?
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Sparman is a high risk taker of the highest order. I think that this is just the nature of the beast. When doing interventional procedures I am told that one should have an open heart surgical team on stand by, can anyone of the Sparman supporters/ handles/ apologist please let us know what Sparman does to ensure such coverage is in place? I notice no one has taken me up on the fact that his new clinic is a fire hazard. Why am I not surprised?
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@Questions
Sparman back up was in Trinidad in earlier days. He also had an Air Ambulance on standby at least that what he told me. I am not sure if it is the case now since he told me about a year ago that his relationship with the other local doctors had improved considerably and that the QEH and Dr Harris was now his backup. So I guess that was not true.
He also told me that he was a bajan when he first came here and met with me and some colleagues so right now I don’t trust anything he says.
He also told me that he don’t do difficult angioplasties not the ones that require more than 2 stents. Although my CMO has indicated that the protocols use by Sparman would not be allowed in the USA that is of not having an open Heart Surgeon on Standby when the angioplasties are being performed. Maybe that is why he no longer practice in the USA
I know someone who was suppose to have had 2 stents place by Sparman but further test did not show the placement of any such stents. That person has not paid the outstanding balance which is more than $10,000.00 and Sparman has not pursued it after he was threaten with legal action. Incidentally that person use to sing Sparman praises before. -
@ Fair and Balance and Question
That is some very thought provoking information. Thank you, thank you, thank you. By the way, Sparman was NEVER a cardiologist in the US. He was only ever a GP!!! He is NOT a qualified and certified cardiologist and so cannot practice this medicine in the US nor Canada – only in Barbados where standards are slack!!! On the other hand Dr. Richard Ishmael is and can. So, who is jealous of whom?
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Sparman is the side issue.
Did the Minister call the DMS in connection with moving a patient to Sparman Clinic?
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I’m not sure I can agree with you David. Sparman is very much at the centre of this very unfortunate state of affairs. I notice that CBC is affording him opportunity for self-promotion. Or is it damage control? Things that make you go “hmmm”.
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Please kindly note that it is against the laws of Barbados for a doctor to promote himself by on television. A doctor is allowed to advertise via a shingle of a certain size using only two colors. If as reported CBC is affording Sparman the pportunity for self-promotion, this is indeed a shame!
Surely this sordid sad scenario has backfired against sparman, donville, dexter, dolores and the delinquent diotrophetic dunce also now know as the delusional duke!
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If based on a code of behaviour Sparman by advertising is in violation please name the regulatory body responsible for managing the breach.
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Dont know the regulatory body David, but I know of the regulation and abided by it!
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@ Fair and balanced: Nuff respect. You live up to your name. Sparman currently has NO back up. even when he had “back up” in T&T this was just therotical. Dr. Ronald Henry (T&Ts leading cadiologist) washed their hands from Sparman over 3 years ago. At this point in time Sparman carries out his procedures with NO back up. As a result this exposes ALL of his interventional patients to the situation where they have no coverage. I do not know how the Minister of Health could feel comfotable about such.
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@ GP
Doc, Is it still standard practice that when an angiogram is being performed that an open heart surgical team ought to be prepped and ready to go in case of any emergency? Just curious.
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I am told that when intervention is planned – i.e. angioplasty or the placement of a stent – an open heart surgery team must be readily available. GP can confirm. On the other hand I can confirm that Sparman currently does not adhere to this requirement.
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@David,
I was led to believe that Sparman was a well qualified Cardiologist. There were even prominent bajans singing his praises in the media.I don’t give two hoots whether the Minister call the DMS in connection with moving a patient to Sparman Clinic?
I care about what happens to friends and family who may be treated by an unqualified Specialist in Barbados.
The public of Barbados has a right to know the truth.
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@Hants
The Sparman matter is a side issue but an issue nevertheless. The spectre of political influence/intervention alluded to in Ishmael’s letter speaks to a bigger and more serious problem which if solved can impact how Sparman type issues are managed in the future.
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@All…
Happy New Year to All!
As an aside, does anyone else find it a bit weird that the Barbados “Nation News” had on their “Front Page” of their first paper of 2011 a picture of fireworks from “Singapore’s financial district” rather than a picture from Barbados?
Just asking….
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Sparkman –however you look at it seems to be frigging problem
Why are we in Barbados tolerating crap ???
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The solutionto the Sparman issue is simple.
We are reading of many cases of unethical behavior by this man. If these things are true, folk should bring the evidence to both the police and the Medical council, and let it take the required course therefrom. -
@Georgie Porgie,
The real coethncern is wh -
@GP: You must have been in Class of 1974. A great Class that.
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Another real concern is whether Sparman is a qualified Cardiologist who is good enough to meet the standards required to successfully treat patients in Barbados.
Could he qualify as a Cardiologist in the UK,USA or Canada ?
Are the credentials he advertises valid?
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@ QUESTION
I WAS NOT THAT FORTUNATE……. but I know that 74 class was a great one and that many of its members have made, and continue to make a great contribution to health in Barbados. I confess and acknowledge that I learned a lot from members of class of 74 in my early clinical development , and that these doctors have faihfully discharged thier duty according to the tenet of 2 TIMOTHY 2:2. Not only did they learn well, but they also communicated what they learned well. What more can one expect from them?@ Hants
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I have a difficulty with the name Sparman
The name itself instills fear
It looks like Spear man and I get images of a spear and a man running down somebody with a spear trying to stick it in their rear. Is it a BURNING SPEAR or is it a flaming spear ? What the frig (other four letter curse word deleted) is a Sparman
I have a problem. I am confused –
This Sparman thing got me cufuffled -I am confused
Somehow I like I dont like this Sparman Sparman Sparman Sparman Sparman Sparman to the Bar man looking for a Car man to spar with down by Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra Ra -Gaga Lady Gaga caught in a Bad Romance–Sparman sounds like trouble.I may be drunk but I aint foolish !!!
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So far the names we have are Tedroy Clarke, Sandra Roach, Natalia Peter, Jude the dude Eastmond.
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poor Jude the Dude
or is it The Rude —–>and prude looking for food
Liberty and now this —Jude the Dude rude prude and eating food or Jude the Rude Dude-Lol Lol cant buy food from the market Vendor Ho Hoar Ho big bellies need to get full. Radio is bad for yuh . Too many people get lay off from Radio –Leave them before they leave you or own one . Ask Admiral Nelson wid he old ass how he gets it done.I may be drunk but I aint foolish yuh –hiccup or ….up ! !!!
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Apparantly the name Sparman is an acquired name.
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