I am sick of Dr Sanjay Gupta..

[SoCalDem]

CNN was covering the LIVE press conference with the doctors who successfully separated conjoined twins, and they CUT it off so Dr Sanjay could "tell us all about it"..:grr:

They do this all the time.. I bet Ted Turner's blood pressure is sky high..

[underpants]

1. The subject line is very ironic

Dr.Gupta can fix what ails ya ya know.

[Dookus]

2. I like Sanjay

he's a hottie.

[SoCalDem]

4. HE's OK, BUT.. I still hate when they call him in to interrupt

a LIVE feed..to tell me something I just SAW..and make me miss what the doctors were about to say..:(

He is cute :)

[Dookus]

7. well

it's hard to blame HIM for that. There's a producer and a director who make those decisions.

[PDittie]

23. and that is the only news that matters.

Everyone ought to re-watch "Broadcast News" again:

"He is the devil.

He'll just lower our standards, bit by bit..."

[redqueen]

3. Well they can't have surgeons making the audience feel bad

by using all those big words and stuff... have to have Sanjay cut in and dumb it down. Can't have people thinking they need to read more or anything like that, y'know.

[redwitch]

5. I do not like him

During the initial invasion period he was on CNN talking very excitedly about the opportunity to scrub in to work on an infant who was injured in a bombing. It was just so exciting for him to work on the kid (who died). He showed no horror at the injuries, casualties, just excitement. Arrogant asshole.

[Fenris]

6. That's pretty much my assesment

Another useless CNN "celebrity".

[Desertrose]

9. bingo..just an *MD* CNN talking head

its all about what sells & personality....

[Dookus]

8. huh?

I don't want MY surgeon expressing "horror". He's supposed to be a professional.

He tried to SAVE this child's life. For that he's an arrogant asshole?

[Desertrose]

10. its called compassion

not just excitement at the "clinical possibilities"

[Dookus]

12. One can be compassionate

and professional. I don't want a doctor screaming "OH MY GOD! WHAT IS THAT?!"

He tried to save a child's life, and for that some call him an arrogant asshole. :shrug:

[Desertrose]

14. didn't see it so can't really judge him....

but I would hope he was at least disturbed by what our bombs/guns had done to innocents...but I agree that you need a MD to remain able to function in such an awful situation...still there is "detached" and caring and then there is just plain cold....

People react differently in horrific situations...just the way it is....

[redqueen]

11. Doctors *have* to be detached

If they got involved there's a good chance they'd end up being useless in trauma situations.

I'd wager he was just excited to have a chance to do some good in an awful situation.

[Dookus]

13. I saw the coverage of the war on CNN, tooq

and Gupta was excited that neurosurgery could now be performed on or near the battlefield due to new types of tents that had been invented.

Yes, a neurosurgeon would be excited about such an advance.

[Lost4words]

17. I believe the child was already brain dead, just a press op

kind thing with the CNN embed, good publicity you know!
What happened to real news people???

[Dookus]

19. I saw most of Gupta's

reports from Iraq, and he did a great job. He's a medical reporter, not a political journalist. He conveyed a lot of information about advances in battlefield medicine that I found interesting.

[slutticus]

24. Yep.

It takes a special kind of person to do this. I could never be a trauma surgeon. I'd freakin' come home crying every day from work.......

[redwitch]

15. I guess you had to see it to understand what I mean

He was just so darned happy to be there, no remorse for the loss of the young life. If that was an American kid he wouldn't have been so gleeful.

[Dookus]

16. I did see it

and I disagree with your assessment.

[redwitch]

21. OK

Then we can agree to disagree. :-)

[Lost4words]

18. I saw it, I know exactly what you mean. n/t

[SoCalDem]

20. I saw him reporting from Iraq too..

He was thoroughly "adrenalin-ized".. I know he's just trying to make some bucks for his family's security, but I have a beef with doctors who testify in court for a living or who bloviate on tv, instead of ...well... doctoring..

Through the years of surgeries with our son, I have come to have a HUGE respect for the doctors who doctor...and not much for the ones who could..but don't.

[Dookus]

22. Gupta DOES doctor

from his CNN bio:

In addition to his work for CNN, Gupta is a member of the staff and faculty of the department of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and performs surgery weekly at Emory University Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital, where he serves as chief of neurosurgery.


Before joining CNN, Gupta was a neurosurgeon at the University of Tennessee's Semmes-Murphy clinic, and before that, the University of Michigan Medical Center. He became partner of the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute in 2000 and in 1997, he was chosen as a White House Fellow — one of only 15 fellows appointed. He served as special advisor to the first lady.

[redqueen]

26. Ooh chosen in '97?

Was it Bill or Hillary, do you think? Or some appointee?

I'm curious.

[SiouxJ]

25. Yeah but I think he's cute

well, I do!