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April 12, 2006
Important clarification
Here's one for the "silly intellectual property issues" file:
The Heimlich manoeuvre is a registered service mark of the Heimlich Institute, which reserves all rights to its use.
The name, that is — not the manoeuvre itself. So please, if a friend or loved one is choking to death, go ahead and save his or her life. Just make sure you do it with an abdominal thrust, people. No point extricating that Mini Egg just to get your ass sued.
Posted by Chris Selley at April 12, 2006 10:14 PM
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On the other hand, it seems like the American Heart Association (among others) weren't too broken up about having to drop the name given that Dr. Heimlich has "arranged clandestine human experiments in Mexico, China, and several African countries in which victims suffering from AIDS, cancer, and Lyme disease were injected with malarial blood."
And of course, there are those nagging suspicions that he: 1) stole the idea from someone else, and 2) faked all of the data for the effectiveness of the maneuver for victims drowning and asthma attacks.
Boy he sounds like a pleasant individual.
Posted by: sacamano at April 13, 2006 03:25 PM
Um, Wikipedia is already pretty funny for an encyclopedia, but that brusque last line of the Henry Heimlich biography has to be the funniest thing on it. Potsie's uncle??
Posted by: Colby Cosh at April 14, 2006 07:24 AM
What floors me about Wikipedia is that the entry for "Batcave" (ie., the one below Wayne Manor) is longer than the one on Rwanda.
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