January 18, 2010
Credit where credit is due
I am not a Sanjay Gupta fan. For the most part, I find his "reporting" to be deserving of the scare quotes. From what I've seen, he's yet another one of those RUN RUN EVERYTHING WILL KILL YOU types.
Having said that, I give him credit for this. He was reporting in Haiti when a bunch of doctors left a group of patients. Gupta took off the reporter hat, put on the doctor hat and tried to do the best he could to care for the patients. He's getting kudos for that and both he and his crew should. They did the right thing.
I am trying very very very hard to give the benefit of the doubt to those who left but I'm finding it hard to do so. Yes, Haiti is, basically, in a state of anarchy. Yes, there are very legitimate concerns for safety. But I cannot begin to conceive of walking away and letting other people die if I were responsible for their care. Hell, I'm not a doctor, I don't even play one on the internet, and I can't imagine leaving in that situation.
Good for Gupta. This is one of those situations where objectivity and the like should go flying out the window. Damn it, Jim, he's a doctor, not a reporter and he did the right thing.
Having said that, I give him credit for this. He was reporting in Haiti when a bunch of doctors left a group of patients. Gupta took off the reporter hat, put on the doctor hat and tried to do the best he could to care for the patients. He's getting kudos for that and both he and his crew should. They did the right thing.
I am trying very very very hard to give the benefit of the doubt to those who left but I'm finding it hard to do so. Yes, Haiti is, basically, in a state of anarchy. Yes, there are very legitimate concerns for safety. But I cannot begin to conceive of walking away and letting other people die if I were responsible for their care. Hell, I'm not a doctor, I don't even play one on the internet, and I can't imagine leaving in that situation.
Good for Gupta. This is one of those situations where objectivity and the like should go flying out the window. Damn it, Jim, he's a doctor, not a reporter and he did the right thing.
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They were European doctors. Maybe they take a different oath there.
Here, we view our oath as a binding covenant with our patients. I am to risk my life if necessary. For most of us, that never occurs. Recently, for a lot of us the H1N1 pandemic was a terrible unknown. Some of us were reluctant to work around these patients and return to our families at the end of the day for fear of bringing the germs home. We did so anyways, although with a little excess careful masking and gloving and gown changing.
We discussed this in the cafeteria today. Unanimously, all docs here agreed. The Belgians were wrong on moral grounds. The danger was real but the patients come first.
I doubt you would see an American team abandon their charges.
At least I hope that to be the case.
Here, we view our oath as a binding covenant with our patients. I am to risk my life if necessary. For most of us, that never occurs. Recently, for a lot of us the H1N1 pandemic was a terrible unknown. Some of us were reluctant to work around these patients and return to our families at the end of the day for fear of bringing the germs home. We did so anyways, although with a little excess careful masking and gloving and gown changing.
We discussed this in the cafeteria today. Unanimously, all docs here agreed. The Belgians were wrong on moral grounds. The danger was real but the patients come first.
I doubt you would see an American team abandon their charges.
At least I hope that to be the case.
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