I'm sick of seeing Dr. Sanjay Guptah running around with a microphone in Haiti!

[glarius]

Why isn't he using his medical talents to help the people in Port au Prince instead of seeking out all the shortcomings that we are all very aware of. The man is a complete phony. This is not the way a doctor acts, IMO.
CNN keeps showing a video of Guptah putting a bandage on the wounded head of a baby, as if it is the most momentous thing!

[DFW]

1. He's too busy yakking to run around with a syringe and a stethoscope?

that would be my supposition

[goclark]

54. He is saving lives ~ he was the only Dr. that worked through the

night when the UN pulled out.

[DFW]

65. I heard that afterward

If he is really doing some good and sticking his neck out, then good for him, publicity or not.

[goclark]

67. Exactly nt

[DrDan]

2. how many channels does that TV of yours get . . .

[glarius]

6. I watch both Canadian news networks plus CNN and MSNBC

for all the coverage on the earthquake. Anything else you'd like to know?

[DrDan]

nope - that's enough

flip over to Canadian News NW or to MSNBC and no Sanjay.

[glarius]

12. As I said, I watch ALL news networks to get everyone's perspective.

What you propose is silly!

[DrDan]

14. ok - I see it now . . . but if tired of Sanjay - then why is it silly to change the channel?

[glarius]

17. If we stopped watching a particular channel every time they

made us angry or upset us, we'd all end up having nothing to watch....that's why it's silly.

[DrDan]

21. well . . . leave it on CNN then . . . it does allow for one more CNN-bashing post

actually just sitting here thinking how much I like Canada.

Made a couple of trips there this past year - one to Quebec and one to Waterton Nat'l Park.

Couple years ago my wife and I celebrated a significant anniversary in Victoria.

Just LOVE Quebec City . . . and that drive from Montreal.


Oh well . . . back to Sanjay. I actually appreciate his reporting. Just a different perspective - one from an MD.

[Fumesucker]

35. I did that a long time ago..

That's why I don't watch TV any more, particularly the "news"..

My blood pressure is much the better for it..

[glarius]

38. To each his own........

:shrug:

[Fumesucker]

41. Don't knock it until you've tried it..

It's remarkable how stupid and shallow a lot of TV looks after you've been away from it a while..

I pick the movies and few shows I want to watch and either catch them online or get them through Redbox or whatever.

[MrCoffee]

3. Turn off the 24 hour noise machine

Problem solved

[KittyWampus]

4. change the channel.

[gateley]

5. He's there in the capacity of reporter for CNN - he's doing his job. I have no doubt

when a situation arises (as with that little baby) he'll revert to doctor mode, as he did in Iraq when he operated on a soldier and saved his life.

[Lerkfish]

8. of course, he did so anonymously off camera.

otherwise it might have been seen as a self-aggrandizing move.
so, its good it was done off camera so we didn't feel manipulated.

[glarius]

9. CNN has lots of people to handle the reporting. They don't need Sanjay.

If he had any heart, he would be acting strictly as a doctor (God knows they're needed down there) during this horrible catastrophe!

[gateley]

13. There are also lots of doctors there who have a protocol and are trained in these

types of emergencies. Again, I don't doubt if he's needed he'll be there. He's doing the job he was sent to do, yet people want to judge and fault him for that.

[malaise]

25. The US Government just signed a Memorandum of Understanding

with the Haitian government authorizing American doctors to practice in Haiti without the usual paperwork. The other Memorandum of Understanding was granting the US the right to operate the airport for now.

[glarius]

30. It seems to me that any doctor would be so moved by what

he was seeing there that he would say "to hell with the reporting" and would want to just dive in and work (b)as a doctor!(/b)

[Leopolds Ghost]

56. Uh, he DID. Thru the night, after your typical Belgian UN doctors pulled out and abandoned patients.

Fucking yellow bellied Belgian UN dipshits... Same people that pulled out of Rwanda under worse conditions.

[slampoet]

64. Exactly. The Camera person can film what needs to be seen and someone else can Voice over at HQ

in Atlanta.

[stuntcat]

7. he makes me ill

Superstar Doctor :eyes: whatever, he's a drama queen.


The only time I watch tv news is when there's a disaster or when I'm in an airport. And every time I end up ashamed that everyone takes that shit seriously.

[shireen]

10. give him a break

he's providing a perspective we don't often see in journalism: a doctor's view. And I'm sure he's doing whatever he can to administer medical care off-camera.

[doc03]

11. What's with all this venom over Dr. Gupta? I saw him

treating a baby the first thing this morning on TV. Didn't the President offer him the Surgeon Generals job, apparently Obama thought he was OK? His job is medical Correspondent for CNN what is he supposed to do quit his job? If you can't handle Dr. Gupta turn Faux on and listen to them talk right wing politics instead.

[gateley]

15. +1

[slampoet]

20. If you saw him treating a baby then it means the camera person was filming him instead of helping.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

32. On the first day of the quake Gupta got a lot

of criticism for playing reporter while surrounded by people needing medical attention.
The next day they played the baby video ad nauseam to counter that criticism.

Dr. Nancy will be there tomorrow, probably the same shit.

[doc03]

36. I guess CNN should just cover the HCR bill,

the underwear bomber and anything else that could embarrass the Democrats like Faux does. Don't you understand he gets paid to be a Medical correspondant for CNN so when he makes a report he is on TV Duh. Why does the Dr. get your panties in a bunch? I suggest you get on a plane and go lend a hand yourself.

[slampoet]

66. Considering there are limited seats I'd hate to take up a seat that could go

to a doctor would actually use their medical training to heal and treat the people on the ground.


Y'know like Gupta did.

[icnorth]

33. The venom may be misplaced somewhat...

I don't so much question Sanjay's bona fides as a doctor or even as a humanitarian; I attribute this to the suits at headquarters who play this clip
100 times in a 24 hour period to tell a story of the magnanimous contribution provided to the down trodden by the corporate collective of CNN. :puke:

[doc03]

37. I was watching Faux this morning for the few minutes I could

stand and during the brief period they were covering the earthquake they had their anti Democrat BS crawling across the bottom of the screen. Since I hear there has been some violence there I suspect Faux will give it more coverage, there is nothing more their viewers would rather see than some black people causing trouble.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. How do you know he isn't?

Doctors tend not to have their work videotaped.

[glarius]

18. See my answer #9. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. He's a medical correspondent, not an average reporter.

Other reporters don't have his expertise in this area.

And when he was embedded with troops in Iraq, he actually saved a Marine's life. Of course, that wasn't on camera, but that kind of thing never is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. What is his job? REPORTER

he is doing that.

If you don't like it... change the channel.

I might prefer if he'd take up his stethoscope, but what he is doing is actually helping to get people to give money to fund the operations.

[slampoet]

23. He took the Oath. The Hippocratic Oath is a higher calling.

ANY trained medic is under a lifetime obligation to treat the sick and injured FIRST no matter what else they do with their lives. To do otherwise is to risk imprisonment in the USA and nearly every country in the world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. It is? That is news to me and I took it

in an indirect way he is helping.

Education and getting people to act funds the other people coming in...

[Sebastian Doyle]

28. Sanjay Gupta took the HYPOCRITIC oath.

First, do no harm to corporations.

If he has time to look at a couple babies, he might do it, but his first responsibility is to shill for the corporations. That was made obvious when he attacked Michael Moore & his movie "Sicko" with a bunch of bullshit the week that movie was released.

[glarius]

31. He also trashed (in a subtle way but he got his point across) the Canadian healthcare

system. We're not perfect, but 93% of us want to keep it and we wish you could get universal care also....like the rest of the democratic countries in the world. He is a money guy IMO.

[howaboutme]

48. Is Sanjay poor?

I don't think so. One's beliefs and culture are based upon one primary aspect....are your rich or are you poor?

If you are rich then your base beliefs are "I've got mine now why didn't you get yours". If you are poor then you don't have a lot of time to think. It is more about survival.

[VanW]

43. He actually said on camera "I'm a doctor first."

He said he was asked to give medical care as soon as he got to the airport in Haiti. He said he felt compelled to give it.

I agree with the original poster in that Gupta is walking a very thin moral and legal line. He is a practicing MD and is surrounded by people who are dying, injured, and in distress. He should be doing medical work, period.

[fascisthunter]

24. he is a phony

does anyone remember his debate with Michael Moore?

[avaistheone1]

26. I am so glad Sanjay didn't wind up as Obama's Surgeon General.

Our suspicions about him were right all along. He is just a pretty face and phony.

[howaboutme]

29. Glad to see I'm not alone

Real victims of disasters experience and understand exactly how orchestrated the MSM has become, but it isn't to inform, it is to get ratings or perpetuate their political agenda. The media has basically become Hollywood interested only in projecting what they want you to believe as reality.

When I see physician such as Sanjay with his face in front of the camera while reporting that many are dying because of lack of available care it gives me a really bad taste.

[pipi_k]

57. I saw him the other day reporting from a makeshift hospital...

people with broken limbs, etc.

Waiting for surgery or someone to set their broken limbs.


Unfortunately, there are no medical supplies there to set those broken limbs or conduct surgery. No IV lines. No blood for transfusions. No antibiotics. One person had his leg attached to a filthy board with an Ace bandage.

What is ANY doctor supposed to do in a situation like that? If the supplies aren't there, are they supposed to just snap their fingers and POOF...there they are?


As some of the newscasters have said, people could very well die from minor injuries because of the lack of medical supplies.

Please tell us all what a doctor is supposed to do without medical supplies...

If there aren't supplies, then a doctor just might as well be running around with a microphone in his hand begging people to donate to relief efforts. He's doing his job.

[howaboutme]

76. Your point is made

and you might be totally correct. He is doing what he can with the available medical supplies. Encouraging donations may be the best path to take. The media still rubs me the wrong way sometimes in these tragedies and it is because my perception says that the media is there for ratings first. I may be totally wrong and perhaps I am overly cynical.

[lamp_shade]

34. Feel the love here. Jeezus.

[Swede]

39. I don't mind seeing him doing his reporting job in Haiti.

You can tell his heart is in the right place. There are doctors stacked up at airports,they will get in to do the job.

[WT Fuheck]

40. blood and gore are very difficult to light.

It just wouldn't look right.

[bermudat]

42. Amen, this is all about him.

[Matariki]

44. fucking hell.

you go there, for god's sake - instead of bitching on the internet about people who are there trying to help.

are you just trying to start a flame war, or what?

[MineralMan]

52. +1

[undeterred]

45. Be glad you can afford cable television.

[goclark]

46. I think he has been excellent

in Haiti.

His medical background is certainly needed in order to articulate the situation in medical terms.

I have great respect for all the journalists who have taken that assignment.

I saw him with one baby and the interview was touching.

What CNN and the other cfhannels have been doing must be working because the donations have been amazing!

[kiranon]

47. Agree. n/t

[MineralMan]

49. Well, then I think you should go down there and show him

how it's done. Whaddya say?

[Blue-Jay]

50. But.... that's not as easy as bitching on the inter-tubes..

[MineralMan]

51. Indeed. I'm sure there are flights from wherever the OP lives to

a nearby place. Then a little trek over to Port au Prince and she/he could be applying bandages and other such things. I wish I could go. I wish he/she would go and stop whining about people who are there helping and reporting.

It is wearisome.

[goclark]

53. Update on Dr. Gupta ~ saving lives all by himself last night

Shame on people that put him down for helping to save lives.

[Obamanaut]

55. Read this DU thread, it might help you

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7479055

[Xenotime]

58. I would say it's pretty fucking momentous for the child.

What have you done to help?

[watercolors]

59. Well then, get your butt doen there and do something!

I'm sure he is doing what is needed of him, WAKE UP!

[WeDidIt]

60. I;'m sick of people on DU dissing a FUCKING HERO!

Because Sanjay Gupta is a HERO!

[RoyGBiv]

61. I'm really sick of this ...

It's a disease. I just can't tell whether it is active or passive ignorance.

Both seem terminal, though.

[lonestarnot]

62. He's the only one who stayed while all of the UN doctors walked out.

:shrug:

[quiller4]

70. They didn't walk out as CNN reported. They relocated to a newly set up field

hospital with power and an equipped operating room as BBC and MSNBC reported with doctor interviews.

[Leopolds Ghost]

71. "They didn't walk out on their patients. They relocated."

:eyes:

[Parker CA]

72. "Relocated without the patients." Pretty f-ed up.

[lonestarnot]

73. Yeah the one's too critically wounded to move. Pretty F'ed-up.

[glarius]

63. I DO give him credit for staying in the hospital the doctors abandoned.

He certainly did the right thing there. My opinion of him is based on more than his role in Haiti. He turned down the job of Surgeon General, offered to him by Obama, saying he wanted to have more time for his family (I believe that was his given reason.) I believe the real reason was that he is against Universal Health Care. He showed that in his debate with Michael Moore...and he has made remarks which have disparaged our (Canada's) universal care....which 93% of our population approve of. I am still hoping you good people in the U.S.A will be able to have universal care like the other western democracies.
That's about all I have to say on the matter.:pals:

[jdp349]

68. The stupidity in this thread is astounding

Like it or not, these 24 hour news networks play a huge role in connecting people elsewhere in the world with the events in Haiti. Without the connection and visuals being broadcast I can assure you the global effort to aid Haiti would pale in comparison to current efforts.

How fucking dumb do you have to be to not realize this?

[glarius]

69. Why do you think the importance of news networks is not recognized?

Your complaint puzzles me.

[spanone]

74. stop watching

[glarius]

75. I don't want to stop watching....CNN is doing a good job, overall...what I'm

commenting on is one particular person....Sanjay Guptah...not the total coverage.
Apparently, you didn't read all my postings in this thread!!

[Raine]

77. At least he's not like Brian Williams

who I have yet to see leave the airport. Williams seems to stay at the airport and use background that others have filmed. I'd like to see Williams have the guts to actually get out there in the field and walk amongst the people of Haiti like Anderson Cooper Sanjay Gupta and others have done.