Trail-Gazette acknowledges existence of hospital as something other than advertising cash cow
It hasn't hit their webpage or Facebook page as of 9:30 MDT Wednesday morning (Update: Still nothing as of 10:30 a.m. MDT) (Further update: 11:30 a.m. MDT and still nothing, although the porn fiend is now clickable) (Final update as of 12:30 p.m. MDT: Posted and available free of charge to non-subscribers, at least until the Hospital requests removal), but the Estes Park Trail-Gazette has finally recognized Dr. MacElwee's corporeal form as existential reality, at least on paper (in an "above the fold" grabber on the front page of today's issue, no less). Cut for space was the paragraph where MayBilly R.F.D. promised to hire a tutor and go through flashcards every Sunday evening for two hours to learn to better recognize hospital staff other than those he gives substantial 6-week "you're special because you stuck around" bonuses to.
Today is March 28. The unfortunate events surrounding Dr. MacElwee's suspension occurred on March 9. If not for Estes Truth, Estes Park citizens parked anywhere in Estes other than the hospital on March 9 would have first learned about these events, well, never, because the pressure Estes Truth put on other people closer to the Trail-Gazette to finally force them to cover this is the only reason they covered it.
Surprisingly, our strong-arm HR thug, who on most occasions has a potty mouth flowing like a broken urinal, was unable to comment, because this was a personnel matter. MayBilly R.F.D. had his mouth too full of cantaloupe prior to everyone being shooed out of the meeting (so the board could go over their NCAA brackets and settle up) to permit mumbling anything besides "Can't talk, who are you?"
Interestingly, public comment on the "Right-to-Die/No, We Know Better Than The Voters" fiasco was included, but it was as if no public comment was made on the aborted "We're Switching Voting Procedures Mid-Stream" proposal. Was the individual who made the board decide to stop indecisively jerking the community around just an apparition? Was he projected like a translucent beam from the sky, speaking in invisible air quotes?
I am most looking forward now to an editorial penned by Mike Remora in Friday's edition, angered at how long this problem was allowed to drag on without the hospital CEO Larry Lemming talking to all parties involved. This Friday or next Friday, Mike, whenever you get a chance to drive (or hitchhike, I know the recent Alden Media Capital cuts are starting to impact travel expenses) up from the valley and put pen to paper. It's not like the hospital could still potentially avoid a large lawsuit by acting quickly (a relative term, it's not like they are an enterprise charged with quick action to prevent acute diseases from progressing or blood-fountaining injuries from draining our allotted 5 liters) to defuse this matter by issuing a simple apology.
Certainly no individual at the hospital, whether doctor or administrator or board member, has that big an ego they can't bring themselves to apologize for something that could save the hospital millions of dollars losing a needless lawsuit? Why would leadership allow their egos to drain the petty cash fund down from 6 months of operating without incoming revenue to 4 months of essentially running a charity hospital or field hospital, where treatment, medicine, bandages, sutures, light, sewer, heat and air conditioning, a sterile operating field, meals, everything was run full blast and given away free, paying the debt collectors full wage despite no insurance company or private individual being required to keep up installments on their $2000 ER bill for removal of a skin tag?
Sadly, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. In order to allow this article, we also had to make a devil's bargain and run a propaganda piece complete with the names of 225-odd people who have joined the cult of the "Supporters of the Stanley Historic Home Foundation" (or SOTSHHF", for short). What is so depressing about this group is they are the same folks voting for each other all the time and packing boards with presidents who don't recognize or acknowledge the existence of anyone other than their kind, those who have already donated their life savings to Joel Osteen and assimilated into the Borg. Never one to see the simple solution of pricing the F.O. Stanley home so it can sell to a buyer interested in preservation, this group would rather turn the town zoning map into their own private masturbation tissue, spewing seed wherever they think their legacy should grow and produce deformed wanker children.
Today is March 28. The unfortunate events surrounding Dr. MacElwee's suspension occurred on March 9. If not for Estes Truth, Estes Park citizens parked anywhere in Estes other than the hospital on March 9 would have first learned about these events, well, never, because the pressure Estes Truth put on other people closer to the Trail-Gazette to finally force them to cover this is the only reason they covered it.
Surprisingly, our strong-arm HR thug, who on most occasions has a potty mouth flowing like a broken urinal, was unable to comment, because this was a personnel matter. MayBilly R.F.D. had his mouth too full of cantaloupe prior to everyone being shooed out of the meeting (so the board could go over their NCAA brackets and settle up) to permit mumbling anything besides "Can't talk, who are you?"
Interestingly, public comment on the "Right-to-Die/No, We Know Better Than The Voters" fiasco was included, but it was as if no public comment was made on the aborted "We're Switching Voting Procedures Mid-Stream" proposal. Was the individual who made the board decide to stop indecisively jerking the community around just an apparition? Was he projected like a translucent beam from the sky, speaking in invisible air quotes?
I am most looking forward now to an editorial penned by Mike Remora in Friday's edition, angered at how long this problem was allowed to drag on without the hospital CEO Larry Lemming talking to all parties involved. This Friday or next Friday, Mike, whenever you get a chance to drive (or hitchhike, I know the recent Alden Media Capital cuts are starting to impact travel expenses) up from the valley and put pen to paper. It's not like the hospital could still potentially avoid a large lawsuit by acting quickly (a relative term, it's not like they are an enterprise charged with quick action to prevent acute diseases from progressing or blood-fountaining injuries from draining our allotted 5 liters) to defuse this matter by issuing a simple apology.
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| Can we add this to the next Park Hospital District meeting buffet? |
Sadly, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. In order to allow this article, we also had to make a devil's bargain and run a propaganda piece complete with the names of 225-odd people who have joined the cult of the "Supporters of the Stanley Historic Home Foundation" (or SOTSHHF", for short). What is so depressing about this group is they are the same folks voting for each other all the time and packing boards with presidents who don't recognize or acknowledge the existence of anyone other than their kind, those who have already donated their life savings to Joel Osteen and assimilated into the Borg. Never one to see the simple solution of pricing the F.O. Stanley home so it can sell to a buyer interested in preservation, this group would rather turn the town zoning map into their own private masturbation tissue, spewing seed wherever they think their legacy should grow and produce deformed wanker children.
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