Posted on 08/31/2008 9:12:29 PM PDT by ricks_place
So how did Anchorage Daily News reporter Lisa Demer end up speaking with a California doctor and getting her allegedly expert opinion concerning the circumstances surrounding Sarah Palin's pregnancy and birth?
Obviously, I don't know. But it's not like Dr. Laurie Gregg was a local phone call away.
Here is what Dr. Gregg had to say about Palin's decision to fly home from Texas (full circumstances are at the adn.com link and at tonight's previous BizzyBlog post):
Still, a Sacramento, Calif., obstetrician who is active in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said when a pregnant woman's water breaks, she should go right to the hospital because of the risk of infection. That's true even if the amniotic fluid simply leaks out, said Dr. Laurie Gregg.
"To us, leaking and broken, we are talking the same thing. We are talking doctor-speak," Gregg said.
Is that "doctor-speak," or Democrat-speak?
Well, I don't know, but it could be the latter, because, "oddly enough," there is a Laurie Gregg who is a known Sacramento Democrat and a Golden State political appointee (bold after title is mine):
Story Continues Below Ad ↓08/19/2004 GAAS:354:04 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEGovernor Schwarzenegger Appoints Nine Members of the Medical Board of California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the appointment of Steve Alexander, Cesar Aristeiguieta, Stephen Corday, Shelton Duruisseau, Martin Greenberg, Mary Moran, and Ronald Wender to the Medical Board of California, Division of Medical Quality, and Hedy Chang and Laurie Gregg to the Medical Board of California, Division of Licensing.
“The assurance of safe and reliable medical services is a vital component of California’s quality of life,” said Governor Schwarzenegger. “Each of these highly qualified individuals shares my commitment to public health and will work diligently to provide careful oversight of California’s health care professionals.
..... Laurie Gregg operates a private medical practice in Sacramento. She currently serves as the vice-president of the Northern California Obstetrician and Gynecological Society. She holds a Medical Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts from Pomona College. Gregg, 40, is a resident of Sacramento. She is a Democrat.
How convenient.
Given the educational institution and timeline, and her age, at a link that I visited and saved but have decided to remove, there's almost no doubt we're talking about the same Laurie Gregg.
Again, was there no one available in Alaska? Or Washington State? Or Oregon?
I think it's fair to say in the circumstances that a Democrat Dr. Gregg isn't presumptively entitled to the last word on Sarah Palin's maternal judgment.
Why isn't the presumption of prudence in the hands of Palin and her (so happens to be) female doctor?
this is also an ethics violation, something about client-doctor relationship.
I am REALLY getting tired of listening to baby killers who advocate for infanticide, whining about Governor Palin’s water breaking.
HIPPA?
Democrats don’t have ethics, or moral values. Didn’t you know? That’s why the Pubbies are always being assaulted by the media whores for the DNC. Voters, of course, feel it is hip to be like the democrat leadership, withour values or morals, or at the very least hold situational moral positions which can change at the drop of a lie.
Dr. Laurie Gregg was not Sarah Palin's OB/GYN; Dr. Laurie Gregg is a Democrat activist doctor offering Democrat-speak masked by, in her words, "doctor-speak"!
Probably Dr. Laurie Gregg has never met Sarah Palin, let alone had her as a patient. She may not have known who she was before Friday’s announcement.
If it’s really a doctor speculating on TV about a person’s personal health then it’s obviously a democrat because democrats don’t acknowledge ethics.
How much did Obama/Biden have to arrange that she be paid?
$10k? $20k?
Same on you, Dr. Laurie Gregg (if that is your real name).
What relationship did Palin have with Gregg? No relationship - No ethics or HIPAA violation.
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BTW, it's patient not client.
Perhaps if Republicans fought back more...?
Isn’t this a silly subject for anyone to bring up when we *know* that it’s 4 months after a healthy and safe delivery?
Besides, what woman doesn’t want her own doctor, and familiar surroundings for labor?
And what does any of this have to do with education, health care, the middle class that the Democrats claim to fight for, and the war in Iraq? What does the personal medical decisions made by Sarah Palin have to do with any of the “real issues”??? Why are Democrats bringing any of this up?????
Any whacked-out pregnant Hollywood celebrity could have her kid delivered in some 3rd world hut by a local witch doctor with no medical training whatsoever, and they wouldn’t catch as much flack as this mother of 5 who was in constant contact with her doctor.
Yep... This "Dr." (if she really is a doctor) Gregg may have just lost her license to practice medicine...
the infowarrior
I don’t know why anyone thinks it should be any of their business when Sarah Palin’s water broke or anything else to do with her child birth. IT’S NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS and should not be a part of a campaign!
What happened to LIBERALS and their montra of ‘staying out of the bedroom’? How about them staying out of this woman’s child birth?!!!
HYPOCRITES!
No attack on Sarah Palin ever fed a hungry child.
This may explain something or it may be just a coincidence: The Anchorage Daily News is owned by McClatchy Newspapers, whose headquarters are in Sacramento.
Having a local (Anchorage) byline would make the story sound more authentic than having the story originate with a Sacramento reporter in a Sacramento paper.
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