All That Matters Is Cone's Healthy Future

I was planning to leave Buzz Armfield's take on Community One and the Courier Tribune front and center today.

But since one of the on-going themes of this blog is local newspapers only accentuating the positive and seeing no evil (Hi there, Annette!), I wanted to share that the Greensboro News & Record has a uber-fluffy editorial up today (readers cannot comment) entitled, "Moses Cone (Hospital's) Healthy Future".

In terms of journalistic suck-up, it's a whopper.  I mean, I'm thinking the Editor who wrote it had to smoke a cigarette afterwards.

Therefore, I feel compelled, once again, to point out that my future was irreparably de-railed/damaged and my soul/psyche forever scarred one night thirteen years ago . . . when I defied the threats of Randolph Hospital executives-cooperatively-sucking-up-for-Cone's-leavings . . . and intervened in a neontatal case being criminally botched by a Cone-owned family practitioner . . . by ALL accounts saving the child's life. 

I've been paying for putting that baby first for every minute of every hour of every day since.

Unlike Buzz Armfield-of-the-Asheboro-Armfields-whose-name-adorns-a-local-cancer-center, the very enlightened and oh-so-progressive Edward Cone, blogger-king-and-local journalist-sometimes-lefty-columnist-for-the-N&R, will tell you that what happened to me (in order to serve the best interests of the hospital that bears his hallowed family name) is "irrelevant" to the news of the day . . . or to what didn't get "reformed" in healthcare "reform".  Of course, our dear Edward is a Cone.  All that matters is that his future is healthy.

That's the way progressives roll.

My Mom could give his Mom an earful.

Sunday Afternoon Update

Earlier this afternoon, in a phone conversation with Sir Buzz-of-the-Armfields, I let go with a Freudian slip, calling the "News & Record" the "Moses Cone paper".

Buzz began laughing uproariously.

It's not funny at all, of course.  But it was at that moment.

Afterthought:  I'm home and went out and bought a copy of the Courier.  Buzz read it at his Mother's.  Will savor J.D. Walker's five-days-late-to-the-party story on Community One and critique later.