Perry Surgeon Has Been Critic of Texas Health Policies
When Gov. Rick Perry goes under the knife on Friday morning to repair his right clavicle, he'll be in the hands of the president of the Texas Medical Association — a prominent Austin surgeon who has been a critic of some of the causes the governor has championed.
Dr. Bruce Malone's personal opinions on the state’s new abortion sonogram law and massive reductions to state family planning funding run counter to the governor's. He told The Texas Tribune last month that slashing family planning dollars and eliminating the Medicaid Women's Health Program to force Planned Parenthood ...
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MaryLou VandeRiet via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Shame he is not having throat surgery..!!...LOL !!
Jalapeno Schwartz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He is a weenie
Alana Carpenter via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I am pretty sure my MD and my doc don't agree on everything either. If we had to agree with everyone we did business with for everything, we'd all be home doing nothing
Pamela Baggett-Wallis via Texas Tribune on Facebook
FYI: Dr. Malone is a great physician but he's also a wonderful guy.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Not going to stand up to your meal ticket for women?
JC DemocratofTejas
Perry and his "spa" doctor ought to have charges brought against them for doing a procedure that is not approved and is illegal. The end result is orthopedic shoes instead of those pointy ostrich boots rick. Malone's opinion of anything is laughable. He most likely is also full of hate for illegals, women....right rick? Wonder if doc malone double dips too.
JC DemocratofTejas
Hey...good luck with that rick. Just keep those pain pills flowing.
"Perry will undergo surgery Friday: "Gov. Rick Perry will undergo surgery Friday to repair a bone that did not heal properly after a 2009 bicycling accident. Perry will undergo a 90-minute procedure to repair his right clavicle, a spokeswoman confirmed. The procedure, which will be performed in Austin by Dr. Bruce Malone, will require the placement of a contoured plate."
Rudy Gonzales
Here's an educated Texas physician countering the actions of the state's highest ranking politician. The Elimination the Medicaid Women's Health Program to force Planned Parenthood out of Texas would be "a very stupid political thing," adding that there is not "another safety net for these women for medical care." -Dr. Bruce Malone. Banning Planned Parenthood from women's Health Program reeks of Iranian styled governing. Iran imposing their state laws on the people sounds like the TEA-GOP-Republican's imposing their laws onto American women's rights, gay freedoms and pushing Keystone XL pipeline. Iran imposes religion on their people and the religious right wants the same here in the US. This pretty well tells you where the TEA-GOP-Republican party stands on America, American jobs and distribution of taxes across all segments of the society. I'm wondering if the doctor would do a rectalencephalectomy on Perry if I paid for it?
Joe Pojman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Obama Administration will be to blame for killing the Women's Health Program (WHP), if they do not renew the program because Planned Parenthood is excluded.
The Legislature and the Governor are more than willing to fully fund the WHP. The state's application for renewal of the program, which expires on March 31, makes it clear they want the program to continue and will have ample providers available when fewer than 100 Planned Parenthood sites no longer receive funds.
There are currently more than a thousand certified WHP providers in Texas who are not abortion providers or affiliates of abortion providers. These typically offer comprehensive primary and preventative care to low-income women in addition to family planning. That means women will likely see a doctor at her visit.
Planned Parenthood offers only a narrow range of services and is unwilling or incapable of offering comprehensive primary care. Planned Parenthood cannot treat breast cancer. They do not even have mammogram machines. The only time a woman will see a doctor at Planned Parenthood is if she is there for an abortion. Women deserve better.
JC DemocratofTejas
Wrong jo Poop
John Carhart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
No disrespect Pojman, but you don't know what you are talking about with respect to Planned Parenthood!
Joe Pojman via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The organization of which I am the executive director, Texas Alliance for Life, has found through public documents from the Texas Department of State Health Services that not a single Planned Parenthood site anywhere in Texas has a mammogram machine. The only breast exams they do at Planned Parenthood are exams like a woman would do herself in the shower.
Bologna Vest
JC, you confuse Dr. Malone, a man of skill, compassion, care, and thoughtfulness, with Perry's OTHER orthopedist, Stanley C. Jones, MD, of Houston, owner of med-spas and performer of stem cell therapies.
Also worth noting: non-approved =/= illegal. Not to say that Jones didn't do anything illegal, or that the surgery was a good -- I don't know enough to judge, just as you CLEARLY don't -- just that the terms are not one and the same.