I met Amy Goodman yesterday! [View All]

I was attending a civil rights symposium at the Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America meeting in Washington, D.C., and she was on the panel. I wasn't expecting it because she wasn't listed on the speaker panel. She was so personable! We bought her book and got her autograph.

Also, one of my husband's classmates, a Texas physician, was jailed several months ago for alleged Medicare fraud after his daughter drew a doodle of an anti-Bush protest on an exam and her teacher turned it in to the FBI. The FBI investigated this young woman, then ransacked her father's office, and a grand jury indicted him for Medicare fraud because of some $14,000 discrepancies over SEVEN YEARS (there is an allowable discrepancy rate of 6.5%; his total rate is about 0.1%, but he was arrested and tried anyway). The family has talked to Amy, as well as the NAACP and ACLU, and hopefully they can appear on Democracy Now! or get the help they need to at least get him a new trial, if not freed entirely.