Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 02:01:49 -0700

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Dearest Ilena:

PLEASE POST this letter from Dr. Al Levin again. It's in response to my letter to him regarding MVP and mysterious deaths in a Houston hospital.

Much love............Lea

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 10:14 AM

Subject: Re: HOSPITAL DEATHS & Mitral Valve Prolapse

Can anyone search the local public records for cardiac deaths in females by age over the last 10 years? If we find a significant increasing trend in death before age 50, we may invest the $$ to see if there is an inordinate number of people with breast implants in that group. Al Levin

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Monday, June 28, 1999 2:00 PM

Subject: RE: HOSPITAL DEATHS

DEAR DR. LEVIN: THANK YOU FOR HELPING US FIGHT BACK. I HAVE THIS BIT OF INFO , IF ONLY THIS NURSE WOULD COME FOREWARD.

''THIS IS WHAT SHE SAID'' YOU CERTAINLY DO HAVE MY PERMISSION TO POST THIS. I AM RELUCTANT TO NAME THE HOSPITAL, BECAUSE IFI DO, THIS NURSE WILL CERTAINLY BE SEVERLY REPREMANDED,IF NOT FIRED. I CAN SAY THIS WAS A SMALLER HOSPITAL IN A SUBURB OUTSIDE OF HOUSTON. WONDER WHAT IS GOING ON DOWN AT THE BIG MEDICAL CENTER IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON?ALSO, ANOTHER FRIEND OF MINE,OCCASIONALLY GOES TO ST. LUKES HOSPITAL IN THE MEDICAL CENTER TO SEE AN EAR, NOSE AND THROAT SPECIALST.

THE INSIDE OFHER FOLDER HAD BEEN MARKED IN LARGE LETTERS ''BREAST IMPLANTS'' SHE ASKED THE DOCTOR WHO PUT THAT ON HER FOLDER AND HE WOULD NOT RESPOND TO HER QUESTION. SHE HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO RETURN TO ST. LUKES AND PREFERRED TO USE A DOCTOR CLOSER TO HOME. I GUESS WE ARE'' MARKED FOR LIFE'' NOW IN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITIES. ALSO I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE IS A NEW COMPUTER AVAILABLE TO DOCTORS THAT TELLS THEM WHEN YOU WALK IN THE DOOR AS A NEW PATIENT IF YOU HAVE ANY LAWSUITS PENDING AGAINST DOCTORS.

I THINK THE INFO. IS TRACKED THROUGH A PERSON'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER. WISH NEW PATIENTS COULD FIND OUT IF A DOCTOR HAS ANY LAWSUITS PENDING AGAINST HIM, BUT I GUESS THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED AN INVASION OF THE DOCTOR'S (USUALLY A MAN)PRIVACY!!!! I HAVE BEEN READING INFO. THAT YOU AND OTHERS HAVE POSTED ON THE HEALTH CHAT BOARD AND THROUGH THE NEWSGROUPS. I HAVE SOME INFO. THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO THE ''SILICONE CAUSE.

A VERY DEAR FRIEND OF MINE FELL AND HAD TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM OF A HOSPITAL IN THE HOUSTON AREA. THE ER DOCTOR ASKED HER WHY SHE HAD SO MANY HEALTH PROBLEMS. SHE TOLD HIM ''IMPLANTS'' AFTER THE DOCTOR LEFT, THE ER NURSE ASKED HER '' HOW SHE WAS DOING'' SHE SAID HER HAND STILL HURT HER A LOT. THE ER NURSE SAID ''NO I MEAN, HOW ARE YOU DOING SINCE YOU GOT YOUR BREAST IMPLANTS REMOVED?'' MY FRIEND SAID IT HAD BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE EXPLANTATION AND EVERY DAY WAS ASTRUGGLE. THE ER NURSE PROCEEDED TO TELL HER THE FOLLOWING.

THAT SHE USUALLY WORKED ICU AND HAD SEEN MANY DIE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH IMPLANTS. MY FRIEND ASKED '' HOW MANY IN THE LAST YEAR? THE NURSE SAID ''IN THE LAST TWO YEARS SHE COULD NOT EVEN BEGIN TO ESTIMATE HOW MANY HAD DIED. SHE SAID THAT THE WOMEN WERE COMING IN WITH MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE SYMPTOMS AND WOULD BE ADMITTED TO ICU. SHE SAID ON THE AVERAGE THAT THE SIXTH TO SEVENTH TIME THAT THEY WERE ADMITTED TO ICU THEY USUALLY DIED. SHE SAID THAT IN ADDITION TO BEING DIAGNOSED WITH MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE SOME WERE ALSO DIAGNOSED WITH MICRO-CARDITIS? MY FRIEND WAS SO SHOCKED BY THIS INFO. THAT SHE WAS NOT SURE OF THE SECOND DIAGNOSES NAME. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IS ''PUBLIC INFORMATION'' CONCERNING DEATH CERTIFICATES ARE.

MAYBE WE NEEDTO START CHECKING ON HOSPITAL DEATHS (ESPECIALLY IN LARGE AREAS, SUCH AS HOUSTON) I AM ALSO A SILICONE SURVIVOR AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ''TELL THE TRUTH'' YOU ARE A LAWYER, PERHAPS YOU COULD FIND OUT WHERE THIS CAME FROM.

WITH WARM REGARDS LEA