Medical Reporter Perfoms Surgery in Iraq

Amazing. What this reporter did was truly heroic. Thanks to Mista Jonathan Street for pointing me to FARK.com for the link.

The only thing that bothers me is that the Yahoo link to this story implied that this reporter’s action was a journalistic problem. Now I know that there is an obligation for journalists to be removed from the story and all, but come on now. . . this man should receive a medal, not some highbrowed ivory tower criticism for what he did.

This was a perfectly humane and just act, and definitely something that should be respected.

Suffering from multiple wounds, the child was seen as having only minutes to live before Gupta was called upon. He operated to relieve pressure on the child’s brain.

“Medically and morally, I thought it was absolutely the right thing to do,” Gupta said. “It was a heroic — it was not an elective operation, it was a heroic attempt to try to save the child’s life.”

CNN said Gupta made the right decision and the network is “extremely proud” of him.