Subject: Comment, electrical engineers under attack (Lundquist)..
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 215419 -0500
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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..........From EMF-L.........
One of the members in my family is a medical doctor -- from Cambridge
in the U.K. She has been known to say: if you've got a medical problem,
any medical problem ... and you go to a surgeon -- HE is going to
recommend surgery.
If you go to internal medicine specialist -- HE is going to recommend
pharmaceuticals. If you go to a psychologist -- HE is going to
recommend psychotherapy...... If you go to a gynecologist ... SHE ...
you know.....
In other words, You are going to get a recommendation that reflects
the experience and expertise of the person you consult with......
It occurs to me that is what Marj is trying to say below......
I don't think she has "attacked" the electrical engineers. As she IMPLIES,
she is focusing on a SYSTEM that has given the job of defining a public
health criterion to the WRONG profession...... It simply does not belong
in the hands of the electricians -- or physicists......!!!!....guru........
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Subject: Comment regarding electrical engineers under attack
Date: 14 Aug 00 15:33:32 PDT
From: marjlundquist@address.com
To: guru@emfguru.com
Roy, I understand why many electrical engineers will feel that I am attacking
them, and they must defend themselves. I am sorry about this, because I don't
mean to be attacking anyone personally.
It is really the IEEE, I think, that has let its members down, because it has
taken on a responsibility that really doesn't belong to the electrical
engineering profession. [Electrical engineering is not a disease prevention
profession.]
In my view, electrical engineers are technical specialists who ought to be
doing this kind of work under the direction of a different professional
(perhaps a bioelectromagnetic hygienist) in much the same way as an X-ray
technician works under the direction of a physician who specializes in
radiography, or an EKG technician might work under the direction of a
physician or cardiologist (in these two examples, a physician is responsible
for supervising and directing the work of the technicians who operate the
equipment that obtains the data, and takes responsibility for the
interpretation of the data).
Under this model, a health professional would be responsible for directing the
work of technical specialists such as electrical engineers, and would take the
responsibility for its adequacy with respect to human health.
Things are not this way yet, but I think they ought to move in this direction
in future. It would certainly protect electrical engineers from future
attacks of the kind they are receiving right now.
I may be regarded as "attacking electrical engineers" right now, but Alan Frey
castigated the IEEE very strongly over ten years ago on much the same issue.
What I am doing now is merely demonstrating how very prescient he was! --
Marjorie
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Marjorie Lundquist, Ph.D., C.I.H.
Bioelectromagnetic Hygienist
P. O. Box 11831
Milwaukee, WI 53211-0831 USA
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