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Dr. Horace Baltz engaged in spirited debates over coffee with colleagues who believed excessive resources were being poured into LifeCare's typically elderly, infirm patient popula-tion. "We spend too much on these turkeys," one of them said.
"We ought to let them go." "You have no right to decide who lives and who dies," Baltz would answer.
— Nov 02, 2025 07:15PM
"We ought to let them go." "You have no right to decide who lives and who dies," Baltz would answer.
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“A caller complained that looters were ravaging New Orleans. She didn't say how she knew this, but the host amplified her outrage to thousands of listeners. "If someone is breaking into businesses and looting merchandise, these people should be shot," he said. "We're under martial law here.”
Another example of misreporting causing issues and stirring things up.
— Nov 03, 2025 06:33AM
Another example of misreporting causing issues and stirring things up.
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Dr. Leon R. Kass, who suggested that even healthy life extension could strain society and deprive the young of jobs. "We've got a duty to die," Lamm said, "and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.
— Nov 02, 2025 07:13PM
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A year before Katrina, when "Hurricane Ivan knocked, Memo. rial stood ready." As Cathy Green, a nurse in the surgical intensive car unit, told her worried adult daughter when Katrina there. ened: "If I'm in trouble at Baptist Hospital, if Baptist Hospital fails, it means the entire city would be destroyed."
— Oct 05, 2025 02:50PM
