All day yesterday the FOX news network went after the nurse in California who refused to perform CPR on an 87 year old woman at an assisted living facility, a nurse who had the misfortune to have her refusal broadcast nationwide endlessly by FOX News right up to the point where I write this at 11:00 pm Eastern Time. Breathlessly assuming that they knew best, too-highly paid talking heads, from Shep to Greta, proclaimed to the world, that they knew more than the nurse extant on the ground dealing first-hand with the situation. To me, this smacks of some military medical service officer thirty miles in the rear of the actual ground combat screaming over the radio at a medic as to how to treat a wounded soldier. It is oh so easy to be self-righteous and certain when you observe from a safe distance. I spent almost ten years in a non-profit, community hospice organization back when we were trying to convince the medical community of the worth of....
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