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Letters to the Editor

 

Dear Anti-Crist,

            Great first issue guys.

            Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know Iím still trying to get my hands on a few books from last weekís list and have also found out Iíll be needing a few more.

            If anyone has a Wheaterís Functional Histology, Guptaís Concepts in Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Crinerís Pulmonary Pathophysiology, or First Aid for the Wards let me know as soon as possible.

            Also, anyone know of any Step 2 board review tapes floating around out there? If so, give me a buzz. Figured I might as well get some studying in while Iím driving over Christmas break.

            Finally, Iíve contacted several hospitals around the country where Iím considering residency programs, and have put together a rough list of books, equipment and other resources Iíll be needing. Please focus for now on the books listed above, but once weíve taken care of  those, Iíll be sending out a list of these other books, so you can start trying to round them up.

Thanks, and stay posted for future updates.

--Martie Gravitt, M1

 

 

Dear Anti-Crist,

I donít know who you people are or what you stand for. I donít know where you get your materialófrom the shithouse wall of a Colby, Kansas Dairy Queen? I donít even know what this is about. Is it a joke? If so, weíre not laughing, so please, leave us be, and take your childish attempts at humor back to the frat house from which you stumbled.

Please donít feel legitimized by my letter. Rest assured I would not have wasted a moment in correspondence to you illiterates if not for your blatant attacks on my character and my livelihood, The OMEN. I cannot begin to imagine why you have chosen me as a target. But since you have, I think you should know the consequences of your misguided and irresponsible slander.

In the time since your last publication, my freedom and security have come under assault from every direction. I walk through the halls of the medical school, my own workplace, and feel the stares, hear the muttered threats, from the very students who just weeks ago greeted me with smiles and warm salutations. My coworkers, while supportive, are afraid to be near me, fearing that I am a ìmarked womanî ripe for plucking. I can hardly blame them. Just yesterday, I returned to my desk to find a scalpel stabbed into my mouse pad, with a message warning, ìMuzzle the OMEN or weíll muzzle you.î

As frightening as these personal experiences have been, what worries me most is the safety of my family. My children are afraid to walk to school for fear that another driver will run up over a curb at them. My husbandís office has been so inundated with angry faxes, e-mails and phone calls that all lines of communication with customers have been wiped out, bringing business to a standstill. Already, two workers have been laid off. He may be next.

I donít expect the publishers of such rubbish as The Anti-Crist to consider my pleas for decency. Just as the British press has its royal family and the National Enquirer its Hollywood celebrities, you seem to have chosen me, Peggy Gray, as your biweekly item of fascination and scorn. Whatís next, a picture of me having dinner with Bat Boy?

While my faith in you yellow journalists is short, my faith in humankind, even those humans who count themselves readers of your publication, is unwavering. I ask them to think for themselves and not be swayed by you pitchmen for anarchy. If nothing else, I ask readers to end their harassment of my family and I. Stop burning, ìDeath to OMENî in my front lawn. Stop hurling rocks at my windshield as I drive home from work. And for Godís sake, stop drowning the pets of my family and neighbors in our backyard pond.

The OMEN does represent you. The OMEN does speak for your needs.

The Anti-Crist must fall!  

--Peggy Gray, Editor of The OMEN