Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Time Traveling Docs - any short stories come to mind?
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I can think of a couple.
-Doctor goes back to "cure" the Black Plague but ends
up triggering something even worse;
-Doctor caught up in influenza pandemic of 1918, has
to devise cure from primitive resources (like City on
the Edge of Forever, where Spock builds a primitive
computer);
-Doctor implements "common cold" to block a more
virulent and deadly illness;
-renegade medical team recovers Christ's body to
ensure resurrection, runs into unforeseen
complications.

Drew

--- Ernest Lilley <elilley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> OK...this horse is dead. Let's move on....RE: [WSFA]
> Re: Q: What do you call
> two MDs who travel back in     time to cure pivotal
> figures and protect the
> timeline?
>
> Let's find something else to flog. Or at least turn
> this in a useful
> direction. Are there any time travel MD short
> stories (I can think of one).
>
> Ernest Lilley
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thaughey [mailto:thaughey at acnet.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:35 AM
> To: WSFA members
> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who
> travel back in time to
> cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?
>
> If neither a phrase or title can be copyrighted,
> then one wonders if a
> book consisting of nothing but titles can be
> copyrighted.  Or is such a
> book copyrighted without conferring copyright upon
> its constituant
> parts?  That would really disappoint all those
> people who have stars
> named after them.  --Tom Haughey
>
> Mike B. wrote:
>
> >At 07:47 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Colleen Cahill wrote:
> >
> >>Yes, Copyright has some interesting things in it.
> At
> >>http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/ my favorite
> question is "Can I protect
> >>my sighting of Elvis?"  Answer at
>
>>http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html#elvis.
> >>
> >
> >When it comes to the PTO, never say never.  Given
> some of the patents they
> >are issuing these days that violate the most basic
> requirements for
> >patentability (such as obviousness to one skilled
> in the art, or prior art,
> >etc.), particularly in the area of software
> patents, who knows what they
> >will get up to when it comes to copyright?  Though
> in that case the courts
> >would have to play a bigger role than they do with
> granting patents.  I can
> >copyright anything for a fee...enforcement is
> another matter.  Patents are
> >supposed to be prevented unless they are really
> patentable, but aren't
> always.
> >
> >Maybe one episode of Ernest's new series can have
> one of the doctors trying
> >to cash in on patents by registering medical
> equipment far enough in the
> >past to beat the true inventors.  Stuff like the
> refrigeration system used
> >in medical instruments to keep them well below room
> temperature, those
> >"gowns" that are sized to fit everyone poorly
> regardless of body
> >configuration, or those particularly nauseating
> shades of green and yellow
> >that they use to paint the insides of hospitals.
> >
> >-- Mike B.
> >
>

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