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Phil Jacobus has been involved in health care since 1977, when he visited China to sell equipment. He has done business in 35 countries and still travels extensively. Phil is active in charity, helps rural clinics and always tries to help DOTmed users when he can.
Phil is a member of AHRA, HFMA, AAMI and the Cryogenic Society of America. He has contributed to a number of magazines and journals and has addressed trade groups.
Phil's proudest achievement is that he has been happily married to his wife Barbara since 1989, who helped him found DOTmed in 1998.
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Leon Zebrick
China
January 05, 2018 12:25
As one element of the Marshall Plan was a type of values propagation, as you note, we should assume similar motivations for China. Chinese social policy begins with suppression of free speech, the press, all media, and a controlled (site-blocked and limited) Internet. That's only good for assisting despots and their non-democratic ilk to cling to power, a fact which unfortunately in many cases helps doors to swing wide open for China (in just the wrong places). But such imposed values are contrary to the innate nature of people and eventually lead to social unrest and all the nasties that go along with that (look at Iran this week). So, the influence vacuum being created by the US global stand-down will probably come back to bite us one day, in many ways, but the worst could be the sustainment, or even growth, of unstable or totalitarian regimes that pose a threat to the US, either directly, or by harboring terrorist organizations. For such countries, the US is a natural enemy. It's a mistake to willingly give up our global political leadership.
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Philip F. Jacobus
re: China
January 13, 2018 02:57
I could not agree more Leon.
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