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Remember Haiti?

If you haven’t caught this week’s Frontline, an incisive look into January’s earthquake in Haiti and the abysmal relief situation, we highly recommend it:





At long last, it’s a thorough, substantial depiction of the whatthefuckery that has gone down in Haiti (before and since the earthquake)–a welcome answer to the thin, info-free journalistic jerking off we were forced to watch three months ago.

And yes, I’m talking to you, Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta.





Watch the full episode of Frontline: “The Quake” here.

[PBS: Frontline - The Quake]
[Gawker: Anderson Cooper Saves Boy as CNN's Haiti Coverage Reaches Strange Apotheosis]

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How To Piss Off Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Lazy Mammogram Guidelines

Did anybody else catch today’s conversation between CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Nurse Lucy Marion from the U.S. Preventive Task Force (the group that released this week’s controversial recommendation that women should begin routine mammograms 10 years later than previously determined, and perform less self-examinations–in order to prevent unnecessary “anxiety” and costly biopsy tests)?

We don’t have the terse/awkward video, but here’s a transcript of the throwdown:

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: About 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers are found in women who have absolutely no family history and no identifiable risk factors. If you are a woman hearing that at age 40, right now watching, 75 to 90 percent of breast cancers found with people who have no risk factors, no family history, what should they do?

LUCY MARION, PREVENTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE: I would not recommend it. I would not make a recommendation. We’re saying that the benefits are small.

GUPTA: What do you mean by that? When you say the benefits are small? Let’s not beat around the bush here. What exactly are you trying to say?

MARION: We look at it in various ways. For example, we look at life years gained by the actual screening every year or every other year. And the life years gained for that group is not very large. There are some life years gained. But it’s not very large.

GUPTA: You’re a nurse and…

MARION: And I know…

GUPTA: I don’t want to, you know…

MARION: I am.

GUPTA: … dig ourselves into a whole [sic] here. You’re a nurse, you’re in a profession of healing and compassion.

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Filed under: Breast Cancer, Breast Cancer Awareness, Breast Exams, CNN, Controversy, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Early Detection, Health Care Reform, Lucy Marion R.N., Mammograms, Medical Insurance Companies, Recommendations, U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Swine Flu, For U And U And Dr. Gupta

HORRIFIC!!!

In the irony of all ironies, H1N1 expert and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta recently caught the “swine flu” while covering the war in Afghanistan.

He details the experience on his CNN blog.

And it turns out that, although truly miserable, swine flu ain’t so bad. It’s about as bad as… the flu.

I’ve had the flu. It sucks, but I’ve made it through just fine.

So why the heck have I been so worked up and freaked out about H1N1?? Why did I wear a surgical mask with my fabulous Katy Rodriguez dress to the Emmys? Why did I believe there was a possibility I might turn into a pig and die? WHY???

[CNN: I Went To Afghanistan And All I Got Was H1N1]

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Filed under: Afghanistan War, Being Sick Sucks, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, H1N1 Virus, Influenza, No Big Whoop, Scares, Swine Flu

H1N1 for Dummies

It’s easy to get worried about stuff, especially swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, a virus, that’s facing the world, and has been for long time. Swine flu, a virus, also known as the H1N1 virus, is scary, and bad. We don’t know a lot about swine flu, that is, H1N1, but swine flu is a bad virus, and most people do not want to get it, so it seems. It’s important that Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s doctor, is investigating this flu, so that we know more things about it, and find different ways to not get it, and HOLY CRAP DOES ANYBODY PROOFREAD CNN’S FRONT PAGE BLURBS FOR EXCESSIVE COMMAS AND CLUNKY, SIMPLETON, RUN-ON SENTENCES?

[CNN: Dr. Gupta Offers Advice to Parents on H1N1]

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Filed under: CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Huh?, Is The Recession Causing CNN Online To Hire Second Graders?, Quality Control, Rambling, The Creative Commas, Who Writes This Drivel?, Wow... So Many Questions

Gupta: For No Considerasian

My dad is a General Surgeon, and for years I thought that meant he was just an everyday Surgeon General, going to work and telling people stuff like, “Smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema, and may complicate pregnancy.”

I remember finally realizing that when he went to work, he cut people open to save their lives and stuff, which sounded a bit cooler. But then I found out that the Surgeon General was this big, important spokesman job with the PHSCC, and was like, “Sounds great! Why don’t you go do that instead??”

My dad, uh, apparently had no interest in being the federal government’s go-to doc. But CNN’s amazian Sanjay Gupta did, and because he was on Obama’s short list for the job, we at DISGRASIAN were brimming with excitement.

Sadly, though, we just learned that the doctor has withdrawn his name from consideration.

CNN reports:

“Sanjay Gupta was under serious consideration for the job of surgeon general,” [an Obama administration] official said in an e-mail. “He has removed himself from consideration to focus more on his medical career and his family. We know he will continue to serve and educate the public through his work with media and in the medical arena.”

URGGGG. What a huge bummer! And while we kinda believe that Dr. Gupta doesn’t want to make the career leap because he’s a family man, there’s a teeny-weeny part of us that thinks that ain’t the real reason.

Perhaps he really hates to lose. Could it be that he withdrew his name to avoid the remote possibility that he not be chosen? That would definitely mean: he ain’t gonna be the Surgeon General, but he sure as hell is Asian.

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Filed under: Allergic to Failure, Asians Hate to Lose, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Family Men, General Surgeons, Hardass Asian Dads, Losing is for Losers, Sanjay Gupta Surgeon General, Withdrawals

Rep. John Conyers: Is There Another Doctor in the House?

Congressman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has written a letter to his Democratic colleagues in the Hizzle, asking them to oppose Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s nomination for Surgeon General. In the letter, Rep. Conyers wrote that he has “serious concerns” about Gupta’s “requisite experience” and “medical background,” calling the nomination something that is “not in the best interests of the nation.”

We’ve already admitted that we don’t know much about the Office of the Surgeon General. But after a thorough review of Dr. Gupta’s qualificasians (young, handsome, full head of hair, blinding white teeth, Asian) yesterday, we feel pretty durn good about Obama’s choice. So where is this hateration coming from, Representative Conyers?

Our hunch? Jealousy. Because unlike Dr. Sanjay Gupta, John Conyers…

1. Is not young (and at 79, is about twice Gupta’s age)
2. Does not have a full head of hair
3. Actually remembers Richard Nixon’s presidency
4. Went to Wayne State and envies Gupta, a fellow Michigan native who went to the University of Michigan, because, c’mon, who wouldn’t rather be a Division I, Wolverine Football fan?
5. Does not share the same name with a famous Bollywood director
6. Has a creepy mustache
7. Could not be played by Kal Penn in his biopic
8. Does not hang out with celebutards like Lucy Liu and Matthew McConaughey
9. Has never made People’s Sexiest Men Alive issue
10. Has never been in close enough proximity to Anderson Cooper to quaff the CNN anchor’s beguiling man-musk

Just a theory!

To read Rep. Conyers’s letter in its entirety, click here.

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Filed under: Anderson Cooper's Man-Musk, CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Kal Penn, Michigan Wolverines, People Magazine Sexiest Man Alive, Rep. John Conyers, Sanjay Gupta Surgeon General, Surgeon General Nomination

Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s Qualificasians

It was reported this week that CNN’s chief health correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, is Obama’s top pick for Surgeon General. We don’t know a whole lot about the Office–according to Wikipedia, it’s gotten rather low-pro and unglam in recent years–but we do come from a long line of doctors (well, Diana does…mine are all the academic kind, i.e. “fake” ones), and here are what we consider Dr. Gupta’s outstanding qualificasians:

1. He’s young (39 years young)
2. He’s handsome, enough so to play a doctor on TV
3. He has all of his own hair
4. He’s already famous, so he doesn’t need the gig as a stepping-stone to something else
5. He’s the son of immigrants, so he worked his own way to the top
6. He has big and blindingly-white teeth
7. He smiles a lot with those teeth, suggesting a terrific bedside manner
8. He’s a neurosurgeon, suggesting he actually knows what he’s doing
9. Kal Penn could totally play him in the biopic
10. He’s Asian!!!

Dude. Confirm this man…stat!

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Filed under: Barack Obama, Children of Immigrants, CNN, Doctors, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Kal Penn, Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General, Surgeon General Nomination, TV Doctors