Psychiatrist gives Council letter ...
Article in today's Chronicle makes interesting reading, particularly for the details which are omitted.
Psychiatrist Dr Joyce Arnold says she doesn't have any problems with the Council's controversial recycled sewage proposal.
She says she was happy with the explanation given to her by Council employee Alan Kleinschmidt.
She is the current president of the Local Medical Association which she says passed a resolution to send the Council a letter of support for its proposal.
The article fails to say how many doctors supported sending the letter and how many (1, 2, 3 ... ) members of the LMA are needed to pass a resolution.
Interestingly, the Council has been trying for several months to get a public statement from a doctor, any doctor, so as to give some credibility to their proposal (part of the "give the public confidence" play book).
Also interesting is the connection between Dr Blaikie, member of the Council's Water Futures advisory committee, and his membership of the LMA.
So is it actually someone who knows one of the advisory panel members being asked to watch a CH2M Hill prepared slide presentation given by one of the Council employees?
That sounds like a lot of independent research ...
posted by Concerned Ratepayer at 9:39 PM
4 Comments:
I thought she must have been a GP when I read the chronicle.
Conned again by the chronicle.
If you read todays paper it sounds like the reporters are in favour of recyced sewage. They are welcome to it, but I won't be having a bar of it.
7:47 AM, February 04, 2006
Seems she's a psychiatrist (although other views on this are welcome).
She may well have asked other GPs to also support the letter but the Chronicle is very vague about this.
11:18 AM, February 04, 2006
So a doctor who sees the CH2M Hill presentation says she thinks it's ok. So what? I know other doctors who think the whole thing is a scandal. Doctors who are amazed to find out that Council trump card, Dr Leslie, works for CH2M Hill - after the Council proclaimed his independence.
If you look carefully, most of the Council's PR and propaganda leads back to CH2M Hill.
11:30 AM, February 04, 2006
Interesting Letter to the Editor:
Are twin roles compatible?
How is it possible that Dr Blaikie, a member of the council's Water Futures Panel and that other lobby group, is permitted to be a member of both groups. Should this be allowed?
7:29 PM, February 06, 2006
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