Since the 1990s, many hospitals have encouraged patients’ loved ones to stay with them in the emergency room, even during procedures that could be disturbing. Now some MDs are questioning that policy. They say that shows like “ER” do not really prepare ordinary people for the emergency room. Also: Fred Barnes does Monday morning politics, Bob Hennelly on the Silverstein-Pataki-Bloomberg quarrel over Ground Zero, and your calls.
Barnestorming
Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard and author, Rebel-in-Chief: Inside the Bold and Controversial Presidency of George W. Bush (Crown Forum, 2006)
-says President Bush is a bold leader who celebrates himself as a Washington outsider
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-says President Bush is a bold leader who celebrates himself as a Washington outsider
» Fred Barnes (The Weekly Standard) ...
Bedside Manner
Jerome Groopman, the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard and a contributor to the New Yorker
-on letting relatives in the emergency room
» Jerome Groopman
-on letting relatives in the emergency room
» Jerome Groopman
Tower Powers
Bob Hennelly, WNYC Reporter
-on the politics of rebuilding Ground Zero
-on the politics of rebuilding Ground Zero
Your Calls
-on the weekend march over the Brooklyn Bridge
Cuomo v. Green
The Andrew Cuomo people would give you every reason to think they've nearly locked up the Democratic nomination for AG (including the fact that Mark Green has already been on our show and Cuomo hasn't - we're working on it!)...Today The Politicker games out an alternative scenario, with some ...
Photo File: Bob Hennelly
WNYC's Hennelly: The PA is an entity of its own, like the Vatican
Proof That The Internet Has Changed Things, Via Adam Nagourney
In his illuminating duh! moment in yesterday's Times (hey, have you heard of this guy Howard Dean?), Adam Nagourney conveniently leaves out what must have been the single biggest raison d'etre for this piece of gee-whizardry: adamnagourney.com, the fake ...
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