Emory University’s Greater Good Presents Us With Too Many Problems

October 4, 2007 8:56 am

by Erick · 14 comments

“Emory now seems to have a pattern of viewing itself above the law because, you know, it’s working for the greater good.”

When we get to the bottom of the Grady mess, it seems to me that we’re going to have to get to the bottom of the Emory mess. I have always, perhaps unfairly, thought that a lot of the Emory folks walk around with a sense of entitlement due to inordinate self perceived superiority. The Grady mess seems to play into that. It’s as if the Emory folks took the view that they were entitled to live off Grady because, well, they are Emory and Emory works for a greater good that the hoi polloi just might not understand.

Now we’ve got a series of troubling stories out of Emory that should, regardless of our politics, give us cause for discomfort.

First, as Jason noted, we have an Emory student editor who called into question Emory’s conduct. But, once he was granted an internship with Emory Healthcare, all of a sudden he considered his prior views to be those of folks having a

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SpaceyG October 4, 2007 at 9:59 am

Erick, you read all those Potter books for naught? What part of operating “beyond” the law for the purpose of “the greater good” did you not understand? Jeez…

Erick October 4, 2007 at 10:02 am

hahahaha. Funny you should ask. I was thinking about the whole Dumbledore – Grendlewald stuff as I was writing this.

SpaceyG October 4, 2007 at 10:05 am

Yeah, I figured as much. I was too!

Jason Pye October 4, 2007 at 11:36 am

Focusing on abortion is a very, very bad idea, especially if you want some sort of bi-partisan effort on Grady.

nrallen October 4, 2007 at 11:40 am

ummm….i’m sorry….but are you pulling out quotes of yourself? because i gotta say, that is really hella-lame

Erick October 4, 2007 at 1:06 pm

Nrallen, actually I was quoting other people.

griftdrift October 4, 2007 at 1:28 pm

Playing devil’s advocate for a moment. If the case was mutually sealed as part of the settlement, wouldn’t it be opening a can of worms to use government intervention to force open a seal?

nrallen October 4, 2007 at 2:05 pm

i was talking about the

Erick October 4, 2007 at 2:16 pm

Grift, actually, I have the same thought and concern, though I suspect, from my dealings as a lawyer, that the one wanting the sealing had much, much more incentive to keep it sealed than the other.

I’ve been involved in settlements where the settling party basically said they’d give more money quicker if both sides would agree to seal up everything because they didn’t want the black eye.

Erick October 4, 2007 at 2:16 pm

NRallen, I’m a bit pull quote fan and that one is all me.

Nicki October 4, 2007 at 3:16 pm

What kind of weighted language is that? “Abortion mill and training facility,” my ass.

Erick October 4, 2007 at 7:49 pm

Nicki, that’s why I think they need to not make this about abortion.

Harry October 5, 2007 at 2:17 am

Melvin just took them out on that one.

BubbaRich October 5, 2007 at 7:11 pm

Erick,
That entire letter is political grandstanding on the issue of abortion. There is no other point there. Every question is trying to weasel into various issues that will earn him brownie points with the “outlaw abortion” zygote-worshipping crowd.

This even includes his little distractor about the death of the poor woman during an abortion procedure. I assume he is equally outraged about the hundreds of women who die during childbirth every year.

I do have to wonder what you elided with the ellipses, both in the second paragraph (“one woman…was killed”) and at the end of his point #6. I’m left with the uncomfortable choice that either you are not really reporting the “full text” as you claim above the letter, or that Mr. Everson is poor enough with the English language to include ellipses in his own original words.

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