The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
News of the Tautological
“Brookfield East Girls Soccer Team Working Together”–headline, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 21
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Bryan High Accident Never Happened”–headline, Eagle (Bryan-College Station, Texas), April 23
- “Future of Belgium Under Threat Over Language Row”–headline, Daily Telegraph (London), April 23
Great Moments in Socialized Medicine
“Doctors repeatedly mistook a teenage girl’s cancer for migraines–spotting three tumours only after her father refused to leave the hospital until she had a CT scan,” London’s Daily Mail reports:
Danica Maxwell, 14, said she felt like ‘a nuisance’ and ‘just another kid with a migraine who was making a fuss’ when she was seen at the West Cumberland Hospital, in Whitehaven, Cumbria.
When she was eventually operated on she was told she would have died had the cancer gone unnoticed any longer.
The tumours removed from her body were deemed so unusual they were sent to America for analysis.
Danica’s tumors ended up at Princeton University, where former Enron adviser Paul Krugman produced the following analysis: “In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false.”
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