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3 Febuary edition of the Telemedicine Reporter International Edition (PDF) for download thanks to US Tele-Medicine. To be emailed when the next is released email their media dept. |
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| The gist is...If you have a serious comment to make anonymously...email it, don't just post it. |
Truly anonymous comments - where the writer is unknown - are not published unless they are unexceptional.
Comments or articles where the authorship is known but are offered for publication anonymously are considered on their merits. (Email Steve or Donna in confidence.) There are some circumstances where it is necessary to be close to a particular situation to be able to throw light on it but to write about it publicly would jeopardise the author's position. In that case, the decision to publish an item anonymously hinges on the question of whether or not it is informed opinion that will add insight to, or might start, a debate on a particular topic.
Unsubstantiated allegations of illegal behaviour or substandard products, for example, would not be posted unless they could be independently verified, in which case we would probably publish them ourselves.
Just because a post, article or comment, etc. is published on Telecare Aware readers cannot and should not infer that the editors agree with the author, anonymous or not.
Steve Hards
Donna Cusano
Editors
steve.hards@telecareaware.com
donna.cusano@telecareaware.com
Equity Capital soapbox |
| Tuesday, 06 July 2010 11:40 |
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I don't think you need to understand finance to see what is going-on, just an understanding of human nature will do. Our anger at Tunstall really belongs with Charterhouse? Those M&A* financiers operate to an unusual agenda, far from helping competition, their aim is to create monopolies. It is inconceivable that aquisitions made by Tunstall could be done without the financiers approval. The debt was allowed to grow to that extent (in times of easy credit), because the strategy is simply to be the company that dominates this market, providing superior returns in the long term whilst controlling market developments. Don't forget also that current losses can be offset against future profits for tax purposes. In the meantime the NHS is taking up the slack on their P&L account. As you say, Steve, you have to admire them really (if we didn't have a conscience!). [*Mergers and acquisitions - I had to look it up :-) Steve] |
