Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 09:17:48 -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>

It's probably a pretty commonplace medical theme in
sf.
But how would the Middle Ages cope with AIDS? How
would that distort our society (as the Black Death
did)?
Could be pretty interesting...
Drew

--- Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com> wrote:

> I know I read something recently about a doc going
> back in time to
> start a plague but it may have been something from
> my slush pile.
>
> Michael D. Pederson
> Publisher/Editor
> Nth Degree
>
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Drew Bittner wrote:
>
> > 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
> >>
> >> Home/Office: 703 371 0226
> >> EJ: 757 581 4146
> >> email: elilley at mindspring.com
> >>
> >> -----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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> >
>

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