Al, Lehig Valley, PA said:
"So what you say.........
Well think of it like this if the STATE SETS THE STANDARDS AND THE STATE PICKS THE DOCTORS THAT ARE APPROVED TO ADMINISTER THIS EVALUATION...

What does that mean????

It means they can pick and word questions in such a way that PEOPLE OF FAITH COME UNDER ATTACK....

They could word things so that anyone who actually believes in Crhist Allah Buddah or the like would be deemed incompetent!!!!!!

Think about it not only will this bill DISARM US BY DEEMING ANYONE THEY LIKE UNFIT..."

OH and how much better when they can FORCE treatment and/or institutionalization on people once they declare them "unfit", OH but it will be for the sake of "public safety" or if that don't work "your own safety"...

From NPR.org:
"President Obama's nominee for FDA commissioner — Dr. Margaret Hamburg...

Hamburg fought a tuberculosis epidemic by beefing up the city's ability to force treatment on people infected by the TB bacteria.

"As public health officials [we] have to have the power to take more aggressive actions in those cases," she said at the time, "so that we can protect the health of the public."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101914671

Here's her profile on Forbes:
Margaret A. Hamburg
Director of Henry Schein, Inc.
Melville , NY
Sector: SERVICES / Medical Equipment Wholesale

52 Years Old
MARGARET A. HAMBURG, M.D. has been a director since 2003. Since 2005, Dr. Hamburg has served as Senior Scientist for the Nuclear Threat Initiative where she served as Vice President of Biological Programs from 2001 to 2004. From 1997 to 2001, Dr. Hamburg served as the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From 1991 to 1997, Dr. Hamburg served as the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York. From 1988 to 1990, Dr. Hamburg held positions with the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Director Compensation (Henry Schein, Inc.) for 2007
Total Compensation $249,151.00

Director Compensation (Henry Schein, Inc.) for 2006
Total Compensation $282,365.00

http://people.forbes.com/profile/margaret-a-hamburg/40368

During my google search on her I came across this:

Margaret Hamburg • Board • Nanotechnology Project

Margaret Hamburg. Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative. Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. is the Vice President for Biological Programs ...
www.nanotechproject.org/about/leadership/board/margaret_hamburg/ - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

When clicking on the top link I got this:
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So I clicked the "Cached" link:

Margaret Hamburg

Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. is the Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C. NTI is a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Dr. Hamburg is in charge of the biological program area.

Before taking on her current position, Dr. Hamburg was the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, serving as principal policy advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Prior to this, she served for almost six years as the Commissioner of Health for the City of New York. She completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She is a graduate of Harvard/Radcliffe College and Harvard Medical School. She currently serves on the Harvard College Board of Overseers, as well as on the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation, The Trust for America’s Health and Doctor’s of the World. She has been elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science and of the American College of Physicians.

And to the right side:

Lagniappe

Saturday, March 14, 2009