Edmonton Journal | 22Nov2010 | Orest Slepokura
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/health/Such+juvenile+conceit/3869308/story.html
Such juvenile conceit
To understand what gives the story its edge -- that of Alberta Health
Services CEO Stephen Duckett palming off a media scrum claiming he was
too busy "eating a cookie" to answer questions following a roundtable
on provincial health care -- is, of course, the major medical and
political news story that preceded it.
Just days earlier, as everyone knows, MLA Dr. Raj Sherman had assailed
Premier Ed Stelmach's government with an angry and anguished outburst
for failing to provide adequate and timely health care for ER patients
across the province.
That left a sense of profound malaise in its wake.
Those who then heard of the cookie incident from mortified reporters,
with the Sherman outburst still fresh in the public mind, naturally
reacted to his display of juvenile conceit in exactly the same
mortified way.
Orest Slepokura, Strathmore