Why Doesn't The "World's Smartest Woman" Have Her Husband In A Better Hospital?

[Doctor Raoul]

This is a serious thread, I am not joking about this issue.

I was talking to a very respected surgeon earlier tonight, and that was their question to me.

Columbia is a teaching hospital, the surgeons don't get as much experience, they have to also teach. Plus even among the City's teaching hosiptals, it's not the best.

So why Columbia?

[spyone]

Half of all respected surgeons graduated in the bottom 50% of their class. Columbia is an excellent hospital for heart problems.

[ER_in_OC,CA]

Let's make a leap and assume that Clinton isn't getting one of the students, eh?

Some of the best specialists in the world are at hospitals such as this. Certainly in Neurology, schools out here in the west, facilities like UCLA and Stanford and U of Arizona have the most respected people in this field.

[atomic conspiracy]

This is a hoax. Shillery is not the world's smartest women and I am not in the hospital.

[San Jacinto]

Hell, I doubt if she even knows which hospital he is in.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Why Doesn't The "World's Smartest Woman" Have Her Husband In A Better Hospital?

Because those lousy Republicans defeated her health care plan!

[JLS]

Well USNews rates New York- Presbyterian Hospital which I believe is Columbia-Presbyterian where Clinton is as the 7th best in the country in the category "heart and heart surgery." That is behind only Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Mass General and Brigham and Women's.

Now as an academic I think US News is seriously flawed in rating colleges. I do not know about their rating of hospitals. But it was the first ranking I ran into.

Another question might be why would the Clintons turn to a religious affiliated hospital?

[microgood]

Wouldn't a problem this severe have shown up 4-5 years ago?

Actually read some on this today and sometimes it can be sudden even with regular checkups because the plaque in the arteries can just break off the lining and start causing blockages.

[kimchi lover]

My dad had sextuple bypass sugery there several years ago. It is an excellent hospital.

[OldEagle]

"the widow Clinton is running for President in 2008."

Interesting thought?

[Stellar Dendrite]

So, Did you hear the audio of what Hillary said?
'He's going to be fine, blah blah, we're lucky because we HAVE SUCH GOOD HEALTHCARE, I HOPE *EVERYONE* IN THE FUTURE CAN HAVE GOOD HEALTHCARE! '

These people are f*cking shameless!!!
Is this one big joke? Is Bill's situation really that dire?

Vince Foster, Waco, Elian, Whitewater, Chinagate, Travelgate, Filegate.....yep these people will stop at nothing. Wouldn't surprise me if this was a stunt. If the guy had that great of health care, why didnt they know he needed a quadruple bypass earlier?

[spyone]

"win one for the perpetrator!"

[PLK]

Remember how classless the left was in making jokes of Cheneys health?

They still are. I saw what was supposed to be paper dolls of The President and Vice President in a Walden's Bookstore a few weeks ago. VP Cheney's doll had a zipper down the middle of his upper chest.

Lefties think that kind of thing is funny. How bizarre.

[LuvMyRedneck]

She did look awfully happy and perky, didn't she?

[fedupjohn]

Why haven't these two morons traveled to the 2 best countries with the best medical systems in the world....Canada &/or England.. Surely, they must not trust the American Medical System to take care of their needs.

[libs_kma]

I know the "worlds smartest woman" is being very heavy on the sarcasm, but I hate that it keeps being perpetuated.

Now Condi Rice's credentials are pretty impressive, and I think she would eat Shrillery's lunch.


National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice earned her Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in
1981.
(Note: Rice enrolled at the University of Denver at the age of 15, graduating at 19 with a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science (Cum Laude). She earned a Master's Degree at the University of Notre Dame and a Doctorate from the University of Denver's Graduate School of International Studies. Both of her advanced degrees are also in Political Science.)

She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995.
At Stanford, she has been a member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, a Senior Fellow of the Institute for International Studies, and a Fellow (by courtesy) of the Hoover Institution. Her books include Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995) with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986) with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984). She also has written numerous articles on Soviet and East European foreign and defense policy, and has addressed audiences in settings ranging from the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Moscow to the Commonwealth Club to the 1992 and 2000 Republican National Conventions. From 1989 through March 1991, the period of German reunification and the final days of the Soviet Union, she served in the Bush Administration as Director, and then Senior Director, of Soviet and East European Affairs in the National Security Council, and a Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In 1997, she served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender -- Integrated Training in the Military. She was a member of the boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab Corporation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame, the International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She was a Founding Board member of the Center for a New Generation, an educational support fund for schools in East Palo Alto and East Menlo Park, California and was Vice President of the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. In addition, her past board service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation, Hewlett Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European Studies, the Mid-Peninsula Urban Coalition and KQED, public broadcasting for San Francisco. Born November 14, 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama, she earned her bachelor's degree in political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master's from the University of Notre Dame in 1975; and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from Morehouse College in 1991, the University of Alabama in 1994, and the University of Notre Dame in 1995. She resides in Washington, D.C.

[ladyinred]

I read that Hillary said thank goodness they have good insurance and her hope is everyone will have it soon or some such political lefty statement.

[Prime Choice]

Why are they waiting til Monday for the surgery?

It's possible that they need to stabilize him prior to surgery. When I was hospitalized due to post-operative complications (pneumonia and pleurisy), the doctors had to wait 7 days for my condition to improve enough so I had a chance to survive the surgery.

Considering Clinton's initial diagnosis, it's likely that his carotid arteries are obstructed and are probably going to get chemically cleared with drugs before they go into surgery.

[Doctor Raoul]

Remember how classless the left was in making jokes of Cheneys health?

At the taping of Crossfire I attended, it became obvious even to the liberal GWU students that Begala's comments about Cheney's bad heart were more mean spirited than an attempt at humor. By the end, they were booing him.

[U S Army EOD]

Because their HMO said so.