European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 21, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8  stars and stripes . Thursday april 21,1994 care among poor Blacks by  new York times seriously ill medicare patients who Are Black and poor receive worse care than other equally sick medicare patients in every Type of Hospital in America a study says.". But  disparity is far less serious in big City teaching hospitals where  majority of elderly Black medicare patients go for treatment  researchers said. And because those hospitals provide better care than other types of hospitals poor Black patients paradoxically end upsetting care that is just As Good As that provided to other groups Overall. But Overall  findings suggest that  Quality of care vanes tremendously with a patient s race and not As other studies have suggested based on a per son s health insurance status. A second study found that in Veteran affairs hospitals Blacks suffering from heart attacks receive less medical treat ment than Whites even though both groups have identical Access to care. But 30 Days after their heart attacks Blacks had an 18 percent higher survival rate than Whites. Two years later both groups had equiv Alent rates. Although Black and poor patients did not experience higher death rates in either study their Quality of life after receiving treatment was clearly lower than for White patients with similar conditions said or. John z. Ayanian a medical instructor and health care analyst at har Vard medical school. Medical experts said that  nation s doctors and nurses have some soul searching to do. These studies should encourage Al medical professionals to reflect on and explore  Quality of care they provide to Black and poor patients Ayanian said. The Secretary of veterans affairs Jess Ebrown said he was concerned about  possibility of a racial Bias Iri  delivery of care at a  i will do whatever is necessary to be sure that veterans Are treated equally he said a. A. The two studies appeared wednesday in  journal of  american medical association. Pad offers to fake place of y o u t h f a g i n g c a n i n g Dayton Ohio a racked by guilt for advising his son to plead guilty to vandalism George Fay is willing to Dothe ultimate for  teen Ager now facing six strokes of  Cane in Singapore Trade places with him. If you re going to penalize somebody,1then penalize me and i la take his place Fay said this week. Wednesday was  deadline for seeking a presidential Par Don. "  -. Fay s is year old son Michael p. Fay was arrested in october and accused of 53 acts of vandalism including Spray painting cars. In March he pleaded guilty to reduce counts and was sentenced to six strokes of a Rattan Cane four months in prison and a $2,230 Fine. The younger Fay said police coerce  confession from him by slapping and punching him depriving him of sleep an threatening him. His attorneys appealed to president Ong Teng Cheong on wednesday for an executive Pardon. President Clinton who has appealed for leniency suggested on tuesday for Roe first time that  confession May not have been voluntary. It s not entirely Clear that his confession was t coerced from him Clinton said in Washington. The elder Fay blames himself for advising his son to plead guilty to  reduced charges not realizing that  judge was going to order his son caned. But George Fay also believes  can ing would be wrong even if his son had taken part in  vandalism. Rut you know what he did t. Anja he s going to get it anyway George Fay said. He s going to come out of this thing George Fay. Penalize me and there s going to be a hell of a lot of  1992, George Fay agreed to allow his son to enrol in school in Singapore where Michael s Mother was living Wither husband Fay said he warned his son about  strict rules  his son s arrest last fall George Fay said he had grown concerned be cause Michael s grades had slipped and he was spending a lot of time with his friends. Now All he can do is Hope his son has enough inner strength that hell come out of this  caning  of six lashes on  Bare buttocks with a water soaked Rattan Rod wielded by a martial arts expert. Doctor to remove nazi Tattoo for free new Brunswick . Dpi anew Jersey doctor has donated his serv ices to remove a Swastika tattooed on  Arm of a remorseful former skinhead. Or. Sandy Milgraum a clinical professor at Robert Wood Johnson medical school in new Brunswick is using laser surgery to obliterate  Tattoo on do Minic Bruno s lower right forearm. Bruno of Edison recently renounced his membership in a hate group called  is action group. The 18-year-old has vowed to devote his time to promote Harmony be tween races and ethnic groups. Bruno has said  in Inch Tattoo has hampered his efforts to land a Job. Milgraum said he offered to perform  $2,000 procedure for free to help erase from or. Bruno s body what he has already purged from his heart and  he said  procedure will require about five treatments. Or. John Mack says four years of study convinced him his subjects told  truth. Alien oriented Harvard records 120 claims of encounters Cambridge mass. A har Vard psychiatrist or. John Mack has never had sex with a space alien no does he care to. It could Compromise his objectivity. Mack a pulitzer prize Winner an Harvard faculty member firmly believes those people who claim to have had extremely close encounters with beings from other worlds. And in his new Book abduction he relates his findings after spending four years studying 120 experiences people who say they had sexual or re productive experiences with aliens who abducted them and took  aboard spaceships. The 13 Case studies in his Book in clude de who remembers an alien woman taking a sperm Sample from him when he was in High school Jerry who says she gave birth to a human alien hybrid and Peter who Tel smack that he had an alien wife in a parallel  v there is a consistent reproductive theme Mack said. Now do i mean by that literally there Are millions of babies being made i Don t know i can t claim that this is occurring liter ally in our physical dimension of reality -.-. What Mack does claim is that experiences Are not mentally ill and not working out  effects of rape incest or other abuse. Their emotional an psychological state resembles trauma he said and trauma is  response to something outside  body not inside  mind. They Don t want to believe it anymore than we do he said. They want me to find them  descriptions of abductions Are consistent from patient to patient Mack said. So he believes  experiences even if he can t explain exactly what they experience. As for having such a close enc Oun Jer himself he said i think my role is my _ a. I Here is a consistent reproductive theme. Now do i mean by that literally there Are millions of babies being made i Don t know or. John Mack to be uncontaminated by  phenom Enon. As soon As a psychiatrist reports they had an abduction then they re immediately disqualified As an objective  As abduction hits bookstores this week Mack hits daytime television. His fellow academics have been less welcoming than talk show hosts. There s a split Between How peo ple regard him As someone with past accomplishments and skills and now they regard this project said  Notman chairwoman of Cam Bridge Hospital s psychiatry depart ment and Mack s Doss. People Are sceptical because it just seems quite Remote and  Mack is on  staff at Cambridge Hospital a Harvard teaching Hospital. He also leads  program for extraordinary experience research which is overseen by  medical school affiliated Center for psychology and social research. His accomplishments include founding  psychiatry department at Cambridge Hospital and winning a 1977 pulitzer for his psychoanalytic biography of . Lawrence or Law rence of Arabia. Since then Mack has developed an interest in Eastern philosophy and re Ligion and believes it helped liberate his thinking