PM Receives Same Treatment as Others
Excerpts;
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is getting the ‘same outstanding treatment’ available to any patient at the neurosurgery intensive care unit at Hadassah-University Hospital in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem, according to June Walker, president of the Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA).”
“‘Everyone gets the same treatment according to his needs,’ she told The Jerusalem Post Monday. The only difference with the prime minister is that because of his position, he needs special security and privacy, she added.”
Commentary:
This author finds June Walker’s statement possibly self-serving in light of comments made by one doctor not on Sharon’s medical team who said last Friday; “The first operation was already purely heroic,’ on the part of the surgeons, he said, adding that ‘most patients are not even operated on in such a condition.”
In addition, this blog takes issue with possible Journalistic ethics problems regarding the Haaretz story where a comment is reported and later diappears, such as the comment at issue which indicates possible preferential treatment of VIPs at Hadassah Ein Kerem..
You won’t find the above comment and report listed under this URL as Ha’aretz completely changed the report.
However, a Google search of the words “Sharon first operation heroic” attests to the original text of the Haaretz story referred to above.
The original article designated by the above URL was excerpted as follows;
Sharon Rushed to Operating Room as New Bleeding Detected (Temporary link — site’s current day’s news – do a find for “herioc”)
Excerpts;
“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to the operating room at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, on Friday, to undergo emergency surgery intended to relieve intra-cranial pressure. Outside experts said the prognosis was not good.”
“The increase in cranial pressure was discovered during a CT scan Sharon underwent in the morning. The brain scan also showed some bleeding in his brain, a slight expansion of one of his brain lobes and a rise in his blood pressure, said Hadassah director Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.”
“Aides of Sharon, who is fighting for his life after suffering a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage this week, rushed to the hospital to be with him during the surgery, his second in two days.”
“‘It was decided to bring the prime minister to the operating room in order to deal with these two issues, to drain the bleeding and to decrease the intracranial pressure,’ said Mor-Yosef.”
“A doctor who is not on Sharon’s medical team, said on Friday he believes the surgical treatment the prime minister is undergoing includes draining the brain from the accumulation of fluids in an attempt to relieve the intra-cranial pressure.”
“The medical term for Sharon’s condition is severe hydrocephalus. The doctor said this complication is to be expected, and is caused by the massive hemorrhage in Sharon’s brain.”
“The more ominous information to emerge from the prime minister’s CT scan, however, is the renewed bleeding, said the doctor.”
[“‘The first operation was already purely heroic,’ on the part of the surgeons, he said, adding that ‘most patients are not even operated on in such a condition.'”]