The Power of Charisma: Harnessing the C-Factor to Inspire Change by Dan Strutzel & Traci Shoblom & Traci Shoblom

Author:Dan Strutzel & Traci Shoblom & Traci Shoblom [Strutzel, Dan and Shoblom, Traci & Shoblom, Traci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gildan Digital
Published: 2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

It was the middle of the Iraq war, and neurosurgeon and CNN reporter Sanjay Gupta was embedded with a group of Navy doctors. His role was to report on casualties of war, surgeries in the field, and other items of medical news in the middle of a horrific war-torn environment.

One day, his team came upon a boy who had suffered severe head wounds. The Navy surgeons turned to Sanjay and asked, “Will you help us?” Although the decision might seem difficult to some—after all, he was there to report on medicine, not practice it—it was a “no brainer” to Sanjay. “I’ll do it.” He was a neurosurgeon first and a reporter second.

When the news spread that he had performed surgery on the boy, criticism erupted alongside the gunfire. Sanjay writes:

When that story aired, I came under another sort of fire. “How can you be objective when you’re standing shoulder to shoulder with Navy doctors?” Another newspaper wrote that I “crossed the line.”

I disagreed. There’s a different set of rules when it comes to saving lives. Nowhere does it say that when you put on your press credentials they are a bar to your humanity. My worlds of medicine and media have come crashing together quite a bit since then, most recently in Haiti. I operated aboard the USS Carl Vinson on a 12-year-old girl named Kimberly at the request of the U.S. military. Again, the criticism was leveled, and again I wasn’t fazed by it, but rather happy that Kimberly, once near death, was alive and reunited with her father. *

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