Penelope
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Mr. Comey Goes To Washington
(here is a snippet of article, interesting, I think his past speaks for itself, who do you belive?)
In 1995, the Comeysâ infant son, Collin, died when an easily treatable bacterial infection went undetected; Collin was 9 days old. âWhenever they come back to Richmond,â says a friend, âone of the first places they go is the cemetery.â
Patrice Comey wrote an op-ed piece for the Richmond Times-Dispatch two weeks after Collinâs death, beginning her campaign to change hospital procedures so that screening for strep B would be routine. Comey backed up Patriceâs moral suasion with a lawsuit against the hospital and the doctors (the hospital paid a monetary settlement and agreed to institute new protective measures; Comey dropped the suit against the doctors).
Fixing the medical protocols didnât salve the Comeysâ pain, or solve the larger questions. âItâs very, very hard to understand why it happened,â Comey says. âAnd glib explanations about certain things being Godâs will are not satisfactory. Itâs simply not fair to say itâs Godâs will. Thatâs inconsistent with any notion of a caring being. What we can say, as Job said, basically, is that we almost canât ask the question of why, but we know what our obligation is: to make some good come of this. Not to say, âOh, yeah, yeah, it was worth it that my son died,â or that all these people died on September 11, or that millions and millions were slaughtered in the Holocaust and in Rwanda. But simply because it is our obligation as people not to let evil hold the field. Not to let bad win.â
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/n_9353/index1.html
(here is a snippet of article, interesting, I think his past speaks for itself, who do you belive?)
In 1995, the Comeysâ infant son, Collin, died when an easily treatable bacterial infection went undetected; Collin was 9 days old. âWhenever they come back to Richmond,â says a friend, âone of the first places they go is the cemetery.â
Patrice Comey wrote an op-ed piece for the Richmond Times-Dispatch two weeks after Collinâs death, beginning her campaign to change hospital procedures so that screening for strep B would be routine. Comey backed up Patriceâs moral suasion with a lawsuit against the hospital and the doctors (the hospital paid a monetary settlement and agreed to institute new protective measures; Comey dropped the suit against the doctors).
Fixing the medical protocols didnât salve the Comeysâ pain, or solve the larger questions. âItâs very, very hard to understand why it happened,â Comey says. âAnd glib explanations about certain things being Godâs will are not satisfactory. Itâs simply not fair to say itâs Godâs will. Thatâs inconsistent with any notion of a caring being. What we can say, as Job said, basically, is that we almost canât ask the question of why, but we know what our obligation is: to make some good come of this. Not to say, âOh, yeah, yeah, it was worth it that my son died,â or that all these people died on September 11, or that millions and millions were slaughtered in the Holocaust and in Rwanda. But simply because it is our obligation as people not to let evil hold the field. Not to let bad win.â
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/politics/n_9353/index1.html
