BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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"If there is an ambulance that is available at the door to the
house that can leave immediately and a helicopter that still
takes time to arrive, it is preferable to get moving," Dr. Zeev
Feldman, a neurosurgeon at Tel Hashomer Hospital outside
Tel Aviv, told Channel 2 TV.
Surgery to stop the bleeding apparently had been
complicated by blood thinners Sharon took following his
initial stroke, and the medication may also have contributed
to the severity of Wednesday's stroke.
There you have it in a nutshell. The prime minister of a
modern nation suffers a stroke and is released from hospital
in two days, unsupervised by a doctor. Though he has a
residence in Jerusalem, he chooses to reside on his ranch
100 miles away. When he feels ill 18 days later, he is
trundled off to Jerusalem in a car, passing by a major
hospital ten minutes away, so he may better enjoy a 75
minute ride to the hospital which misprescribed his original
treatment. Of course, he should have been flown to hospital
by helicopter, but here is the excuse why he wasn't.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3195358,00.html
Why wasn't Sharon airlifted to hospital?
According to initial explanations, ambulance left on way to
Jerusalem hospital before proposal to use chopper was
raised; doctor concerned carrying Sharon to helicopter would
have worsened his condition due to the change in air
pressure.
Just last night I shared dinner with a group of visitors from
the US. One of the party was a Colorado was a Colorado
doctor who served in Viet Nam. He explained why the
explanation was nonsense. "You fly at 300 feet following the
landscape and there is no air pressure difference. When you
medivac someone in Sharon's condition, you don't fly at
12,000 feet." That simple.