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Do you ever get the feeling that your doctor and physicians don’t care about you or see you as merely another source of income and nothing more? Have you ever felt forgotten or mistreated by them? Well rest assured, your fears are probably legitimate.

What, you thought I was going to be reassuring you that they do care? Pft! Check this out:

A cancer patient says she was left alone in a CT scanner for hours after a technician apparently forget about her, and she finally crawled out of the device, only to find herself locked in the closed clinic.

A technician placed her inside the large machine at about 4 p.m. on Sept. 19, dimmed the lights so she could relax and told her not to move during the 25-minute procedure.

“At some point, my mom lost track of time and felt like too much time had passed, but she couldn’t look at a clock or anything because it was dark,” her son Ariel Tellez said.

After calling out, then screaming for help, she said, she spent several hours trying to free herself from the machine. Finally, she wiggled out from under a heavy blanket and out of the machine. By the time deputies found her, it had been five hours since she was placed inside.

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You’ve got to love the fact that the office that this happened at is now going to institute a lockup procedure, whereby all employees will have a checklist of things to check on and secure before leaving to insure a full sweep of the premises is conducted in order to prevent another occurrence.

Hey that sounds like an excellent idea!

But wait, if gas stations, business offices, and what not already check to make sure everyone is gone and things tidying up before closing for the evening then why wasn’t a medical practice doing the same?

Sept. 14, 2007 - Like most girls her age, 15-year-old Ashlee R. is into sports, clothes and current pop music. She’s a typical Midwestern teen—except that she’s looking for a husband. “She tells us none of the boys her own age are interesting to her because they ‘are still little kids’ and she is looking for an adult to start a life with,” say her parents, who’ve enrolled her on a new Web site—MarryOurDaughter.com—where they’ve set the “price” for her hand as $37,500.

Makayla S. is also 15, a traditional girl, a homebody who “cooks like a chef and decorates like Martha Stewart.” She has a cheerful, upbeat outlook on life and spends a lot of time laughing. Her bride price? $24,995.

Before you get too upset, stop: MarryOurDaughter.com isn’t real—it’s a hoax. Nonetheless, the site—which claims to be a matching service for followers of “the Biblical tradition” of arranged marriages—has managed to fool a whole lot of people. With profiles of young girls, outrageous testimonials and solicitations for proposals (as well as a sign-up page to have your own daughter listed) MarryOurDaughter.com has received 60 million hits since it launched last week—and, believe it or not, on top of angry letters, thousands of proposals.

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We’ve had mail order Russian brides for so long that if this had been real it really wouldn’t have surprised me. Truth be told, somehow I don’t find this very offensive. Yes, had it been real it would have been kind of sad that these girls were being sold off, but that is a cultural view. Only a handful of countries and societies view marriage as a bond formed between a loving couple. Many view it as something that must be done to preserve the families or a matter of conveience. So before anybody gets their panties in a twist over this pleas estop and realize that one culture’s views do not necessarily reflect another’s, and certainly there is no one “superior” or right view.

We’ve all seen the clips and photos of the woman who came forward on the Today show to protest Southwest Airline’s treatment of her, but now we’ve got another one.

What, you haven’t heard? Just watch the MSN news clip.

Truth be told, I can’t find anything wrong with her dress that would require her to cover up. It has a v-neck? Yes, but nothing was being improperly displayed. In fact, that’s an outfit I would expect a lot of women to wear when they go out shopping, eating to a cafe even, in other words, it’s not attire one would expect to see only at a club, party, or college campus.

I’m thinking the flight attendant who told this woman to cover up might have been just a tad bit jealous.

NEW YORK, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The American media turned on Serena Williams on Wednesday, labelling the former world number one as “classless” and “graceless” after her sullen reaction to her U.S. Open exit at the hands of Justine Henin.

Top seed Henin beat the American 7-6 6-1 in the quarter-finals for the third consecutive grand-slam event on Tuesday but a despondent Williams gave the Belgian scant praise.

“I just think she made a lot of lucky shots and I made a lot of errors,” Williams said at her news conference.

“I really don’t feel like talking about it. It’s like I don’t want to get fined. That’s the only reason I came. I can’t afford to pay the fines because I keep losing.”

Players who fail to appear for post-match news conferences face fines from tennis officials.

Williams’s words and manner were greeted with widespread disdain.

“(Williams) met the media afterward like a rattlesnake meets a ground squirrel,” wrote Bill Dwyer, in the Los Angeles Times.

“If anybody was expecting perspective afterward, or maybe a gracious nod to a better effort by an opponent, forget it. We had sullen Serena. Snippy Serena. Snarly Serena.”

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You want to know what I think about this? Well you’re reading my blog so I assume you do. I think this is something that is being blown out of proportion. I mean really, she lost. How do expect a person to give you “tremendous” insight to the match? Weren’t you there watching? Can’t you figure out the gist of what happened without having to harass the athlete?

That’s basically what this boils down to, expecting a little too much from athletes. You have to remember that the majority of these athletes (no matter the sport) are there for the love of the game and or the money. Having a mandatory press conference afterwards even for the loser is just rubbing salt into an open wound. For those who love the game or playing for money, the loss has to be humiliating or at least painful and here you [the press] are expecting them to be graceful and pliant to your every question that must feel like a stab through the heart. Guess what, they’re only human and if they would rather not talk about their loss and say so then leave it be.

The burglar smashed a window to gain entry and made off with a laptop computer, a camera, and Glass’ wallet with an American Express credit card.

The thief returned the goods later in the day, along with a new basketball and two pairs of gloves bought on the stolen credit card.

Glass and his wife, Shirley, discovered the loot piled on their kitchen table with a neat, handwritten full-page note from the burglar saying he was sorry for “violating the safety and security of your home.”

The robber also promised to leave cash in Glass’ mailbox to pay for the smashed window when he had enough money.

“I have never written truer words when I say that I wish that I had never done this to you and your family,” the note read. “From the bottom of my heart I am sorry.”

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Seriously, how often does this happen?

Now initially I would have been pipping mad, but after the heartfelt apology, returned goods, and promise to pay for repairs I would have told the police to take a walk because I’m not pressing charges. Why? How often does someone who has done serious wrong, realize what they did, and make amends? Not very often. Reward that behavior and set a precedent I say.