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or put them through the<br />

one-two-and-you’re-out appeals<br />

you’ll get your ‘doctor’<br />

to decline.<br />

But then...<br />

there are times ahead when<br />

stem cells could penetrate the conscience,<br />

synapse with ethics, compassion, even empathy,<br />

restore, renew, re-humanize—<br />

there are those times, are there not?<br />

Yet would you sign consent,<br />

or remain forever hell-bent<br />

on un-insuring the insured?<br />

And there are times<br />

I write you another letter <strong>of</strong> appeal...<br />

there are those times<br />

Michael R. Pranzatelli, M.D.<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Neurology<br />

SCOPE <strong>2009</strong><br />

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