David Paul Williams | Salt Lake Tribune

Accidentally tuning in to 101.9 "The End" the morning of May 31, I was horrified as the morning radio hosts were mocking people with reflex sympathetic dystrophy. This is a very painful disease that has no cure, with hundreds of thousands of sufferers nationwide.
Perhaps making fun of Paula Abdul, who suffers from the condition, is fair game, but to insinuate that people who suffer from this condition are complainers and drunken drug addicts is abhorrent and deserves to be addressed. Patients with this condition suffer from discrimination because of the bigotry shown by so many people.
More must be done to accept people with different health backgrounds instead of mocking and excluding them for fun and profit.