During a recent fund-raiser for the Terry Schindler Schiavo Foundation at Rootstown's Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, I had the privilege of hearing Dr. Raymond Bonnabeau, a St. Paul, Minn., cardio-thoracic surgeon and retired U.S. Army major general, speak to a group of community members about the importance of having advocates when facing medical treatment.
A surgeon for 48 years, Bonnabeau recalled that medical morality and ethics "shifted" with the first heart transplant in 1967. With that breakthrough, doctors "had to deal with patients who were going to be donors," losing their lives in the process, as well as the surviving family members.
Bonnabeau said he takes issue with the practice of hospitals calling their patients "clients" and "consumers:" "They're not there to buy a pair of shoes and a car!" he said.
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Newmark believes newspapers could learn a thing or two from crowd-sourcing, something Craigslist harnessed early on. Online newspapers would grow more compelling to readers if they were actually part of the press.
Bloomberg stressed that though controversial subjects, like the Terry Schiavo Story, which pitted one ideology against another, sell papers, publishers must realize it is also their duty to tell the public "what's going on."
Newspapers, Evolution is a Collaborative Effort
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