When The Rabbit Screams

The Asheville teenager whomade Yahoo yesterday for changing her legal name to "CutOutDissection.com" madeCNN today.After jumping through hoop after hoop . . . after three years of blogging . . . after writing gadzillions of words and composing both short versions and long versions of my story-of-woe . . . this "health-care hero" (yes, that was sarcasm) has lost track of the people who ' ve told her she needs a " hook " or " angle " or " gimmick " in order to get a reporter ' s attention (that, of course, would be a REAL reporter - outside of Asheboro or Greensboro).I ' ve never bought it. I ' m one of those old-fashioned types who still believes investigative journalism has a place in protecting us from corruption - and that we citizens need to get in journalists ' faces until they actually get back to it (there ' s a reason the newspapers are dying). But at this point, I also am at a loss as to what it takes to get my story on 60 Minutes - where it belongs. For you need look no further than the sad saga of Dr. Mary Johnson, to see what is wrong with medicine - and especially Pediatrics.So maybe I should legally change my name to " ProsecuteTheDamnedLiarsAtRandolphHospital.Com " ?I digress. As I said in the original post on " no-dissection-girl " , I ' ve come a very long way from the naive young lady who went to medical school in order tochange her little corner of the world for the better.Sometimes I don ' t recognize me in the mirror.When I entered...
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