Letters: Care received at EAMC, from top to bottom, worth writing about

Care received at EAMC, from top to bottom, worth writing about
I recently had surgery at East Alabama Medical Center. I am compelled to tell everyone how positive my experience was while staying at the hospital.

The moment I entered EAMC I noticed (in sequence): 1) the volunteers, 2) the pre-surgery staff, 3) surgery staff, 4) student nurses, 5) food services, 6) housekeeping, 7) physical therapy staff, 8) pharmacy staff, 9) radiology staff and the social workers. They were all so nice to me.

I observed quite a bit because I was there for four days and I was on my back. I was watching these people because … hey, what else is there to do?

However, the real reason I’m writing this letter concerns the nurses and medical technicians that took such great care of me on the fifth floor of the orthopedic section. These people let me know from the start that they would do anything necessary to get me well. Sometimes that meant just coming in and talking some and cooling me out just a little. That still took some of their time, but it always meant a lot to me.

I want them to know they are A-plus, five stars … simply the best. Thank you so much for everything.

David Glenn Robertson
Notasulga

Society should be more respectful of science and scientific theory
The anticipated eclipse of the moon last Wednesday night was not a disappointment in Auburn, despite widespread cloud cover in Alabama.

Further celestial excitement was provided by the skill and knowledge displayed in destroying a satellite dangerously returning to earth’s atmosphere: such a small target in such a vast space! One can hope the cost of construction and destruction was more than justified during its short but useful life. The scientists on whom such predictions and accomplishments rest claimed 90 percent probability of success. That modesty is in keeping with scientists calling its knowledge of evolution a theory.

Knowing what we do about history, it is easy to imagine the surprise and fear we would have felt as citizens some 2,000 years ago and less with the eclipse! Anything adding darkness to life would not be disputed to be a probable visit of a wrathful God.

Fortunately, humanity has had very smart and observant people who noted causes more probable than God. People that find no knowledge of God are called atheists by the religious.

Malcolm Cutchins in the Opelika-Auburn News the day after the eclipse, assigned blame to atheists for much of the trouble found in society. He also did his best to identify Adolf Hitler as an atheist, but the contemporary Pope of Hitler found little to criticize in Hitler, no credit to him. But, on the other hand, those that make the marvelous predictions and discoveries turn out to mostly to be those who cannot find evidence of God and are called atheist. Secular might be the more polite term to use in a democracy that relies on a constitution free from reference to God

Just how ungrateful a society can be is the respect withheld from science, scientists and scientific education as demonstrated in the U.S. Radical Islam could be worse.

William Blakney
Auburn