{"id":203,"date":"2009-08-31T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-08-31T10:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:48:37","slug":"choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/08\/choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kat_doc.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/kat_doc.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;\" height=\"347\" width=\"275\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is not precisely arts related, but as particular students of human experience in our lives and work, I found it important. So if you haven&#8217;t read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/30\/magazine\/30doctors.html\">Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices<\/a>&#8221; yet (which cost an estimated $400K to report, if <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5348987\/the-nyt-magazines-400000-hurricane-katrina-story-expensive-epic?skyline=true&amp;s=x\">reports can be believed<\/a> [and which leads to a whole other line of discussion]), you might want to set aside your lunch hour today.<\/p>\n<p>Even some 13,000 words later, I still felt that I couldn&#8217;t fully wrap my mind around what had happened at Memorial Medical Center. At the end of the article, of course, there is no grand right\/wrong resolution to the choices faced and made by the people in this story, so I found myself skimming on through the reader comments, as if I might find something there. I didn&#8217;t. However, some of the comments included additional anecdotes from that time, making it clear that even after reading $400K worth of reporting, there&#8217;s always going to be more information you don&#8217;t have. And so unless you were there, and perhaps even if you were, you never really could understand a situation so complex as this. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is the point at which we rely on art and ritual to take our hand in such matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not precisely arts related, but as particular students of human experience in our lives and work, I found it important. So if you haven&#8217;t read &#8220;Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices&#8221; yet (which cost an estimated $400K to report, if reports can be believed [and which leads to a whole other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}