From: Michael Pederson <mike at nthzine.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Time Traveling Docs - any short stories come to mind?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 12:15:00 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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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