Posted on 02/14/2006 9:25:07 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
First Doctor to Treat Cheney Victim Tells Texas Paper He Wanted to Send Him Home
By Joe Strupp
Published: February 14, 2006 12:05 PM ET
NEW YORK While news reports from The New York Times to the Austin American-Statesman have been describing the injuries to Harry Whittington, the victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting, as more serious than first believed, as he remains hospitalized today, the tiny Alice [Texas] Echo-News Journal will offer a different version later today, E&P has learned.
According to the afternoon daily, located about 60 miles from the shooting site, the first doctor to treat Whittington immediately after the Saturday shooting contended that his wounds were superficial and not in need of further hospitalization.
"If it were just a normal citizen, he would have sent him home with antibiotics," said Ofelia Hunter, Echo-News Journal editor, who talked to the doctor. "He felt that it was more royal treatment that he was getting."
Hunter's comments referred to Dr. Raj Subnani, who treated Whittington at the Christus Spohn Hospital in Kingsville where he was first taken before being transferred to the Christus Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi, where he remains.
Hunter, who plans to run a story about Subnani this afternoon, said she interviewed the doctor Monday. The editor, who is one of three newsroom staffers at the paper, indicated that the doctor was not in favor of transferring Whittington because he did not believe he required further hospitalization.
"He felt he was transferred because of his prominence, and that he was already stable," Hunter said. "It was more because of who he was." That is in marked contrast to reports in most major newspapers that Whittington required intensive care treatment, was hit with more than 100 pellets, and that some of the wounds were so severe the pellets could not be removed.
Hunter also reports that Subnani was upset that the Corpus Christi Hospital was being credited with treating Whittington. "More than anything because Corpus Christi staff is getting all of the attention and his staff did all of the work," Hunter said of Subnani. "Media outlets are giving them the credit."
The Echo-News Journal, which publishes every day except Saturday, did not get the early scoop that its neighbor, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, did. While the Caller-Times has been credited nationwide with breaking the shooting story online Sunday, Hunter said her first report on the shooting was an AP story in the Monday paper.
While she praised the Caller-Times for its work, Hunter also criticized officials for not revealing the news earlier to local journalists. "We should be able to get that information," she said. Hunter also said the Armstrong Ranch, where the shooting occurred, is known as a place where political heavyweights often visit, noting that Cheney comes down at least once a year. But she said there had been no similar incidents therr in the recent past.
His injury was Kerryesque.
"Put some ice on it." Heheh.
FYI
Oh no. Here comes another scandal. He was not going to be held overnight before he was being held overnight. This will affect minorities across the nation and your grandmothers social security check will be taken from her.
IMPEACH CHENEY!!!
Maybe you should put some ice on that.....
"Cheney Victim!!!???"
Our press has become utterly degenerate.
Hospitals are like car dealers. Once you drive into that bay they have to do enough work to cover their overhead.
Didn't I hear he just got released from ICU? Leave it to the press to completely make stuff up.
I don't believe ONE word coming out of their mouths. Not one.
Are you listening the press grill Scott right now?
"While news reports from The New York Times to the Austin American-Statesman have been describing the injuries to Harry Whittington, the victim of Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting, as more serious than first believed...
...the first doctor to treat Whittington immediately after the Saturday shooting contended that his wounds were superficial and not in need of further hospitalization. "
What? The Lib media making things sound worse than they were? I can't believe it!!!! /s
And the Lib media wonders why they are not the first informed.
HAR!
I can hardly await the victim's first presser!
I'm here, thanks to Mo!
WH presser is on Cspan1
The press will claim there is makeup (applied by Rove) covering the hideous wounds.
I'm so sick of this story already, I could scream.
Just wait until they drop the real bomb:
Cheney didn't shoot him with a shotgun. He just glared at him for walking into his line of fire. The effects of that brief glare were enough to require hospitalization.
During the Thanksgiving episode of "Grey's Anatomy" one of the interns goes turkey hunting with his father and brothers (he doesn't want to). They get in the typical family argument and the trip ends after the father is accidently shot in the buttocks. The next scene has the dr. son picking the birdshot out of his father's butt as father and son settle feelings from the son's childhood. The father pulls his pants up and goes home. No intensive care.
Much ado about nothing.
I swear. We could literally bomb North Korea AND Iran and the press wouldn't even notice until Friday.
"I don't believe ONE word coming out of their mouths. Not one. "
I don't either. That is the key to this whole story, it's nothing but a bunch of overhyped hogwash, like Katrina "victims" and a whole lot of other topics. The media has gone berserk with their Bush hatred and their loss of clout with the public.
Scott: You all have to make decisions on what you want to report. And if this is what you want to report, that's fine. But this adminsitration is focusing on other efforts.
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