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. 

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