"Maybe your patient’s disease didn’t read the textbook.” Now, I need to add, “or The New York Post.” Disgusted CBS News medical shill Jonathan LaPook M.D. in his Marcus Welby white lab coat celebrating the rare odds beaters.

He IS dying, a-hole. So was Mary Jo Kopechne after Ted extricated himself from the black water and saved his own ass. Years ago I read a story by the great American novelist Joyce Carol Oates - "Black Water" - about what Mary Jo was thinking as SHE was dying.

Here's an excerpt. "He was gone but would come back to save her. He was gone having swum to shore to cry for help... or was he lying on the weedy embankment vomiting water in helpless spasms drawing his breath deep, deep to summon his strength and manly courage preparatory to returning to the black water to dive down to the submerged car like a capsized beetle helpless and precariously balanced on its side in the soft muck of the riverbed where his trapped and terrified passenger waited for him to save her, waited for him to return to open the door to pull her out to save her: was that the way it would happen? I'm here. I'm here. Here."

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