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Doctors, Props, and Squash
posted at 2007-01-18 18:00 | Last modified 2007-11-14 10:38
Doctors and Executions
The NC Medical Board decided today to formalize its position regarding doctors and executions. The panel voted unanimously and without debate to adopt a policy allowing doctors to certify the death of executed prisoners, as required by law, but not to participate in the execution in any way. That’s a more conservative position than other medical boards have taken. (The AMA's national board, for example, says it's an ethical breach for a doctor to even observe an execution.) WUNC's Rusty Jacobs filed this report about the decision.
The decision means upcoming executions won’t be delayed due to the availability of a physician. Three men are scheduled to be executed in the next few weeks.
Passing the Baton
Congratulations to WRAL’s Clay Johnson. Last night in NYC, the documentary maker accepted a silver baton from the Dupont Columbia folks for his work on WRAL’s "Focal Point" series. Nice work, Clay, and congrats to all the folks at WRAL who helped make it happen.
More Congrats
The Triangle Biz Journal reports Raleigh’s own Capstrat is a finalist for PR Week’s national small agency of the year. As I like to say, a day without a Capstrat press release is like a day without sunshine. Seriously, though, great job.
Where’s the Squash?
Looks like we’ll be seeing more of the Capitol Press Corps’ Curmudgeon-in-Residence Paul O’Connor (Winston Salem Journal). You can thank (or blame) the legislature’s new chef, Steve. (I guess it’s like Cher or Prince - no one seems to knows his last name.)
Iron Chef Steve took over the cafeteria at the beginning of this year, and frankly, the food is better – more on that later. But here’s the issue: he’s not going to offer the same daily menu every week. This may not seem like a big deal to normal folks, but it’s nothing short of a seismic shift to the denizens of Jones St., who’ve known for years exactly what’s for lunch any given day of the week. If there’s no spinach pie, how will anyone know it’s Tuesday?
This happens to be particularly tragic news for O'Connor, a founding member of the "Fried Squash Caucus," a standing Wednesday lunch date for the press corps and friends. Why Wednesdays? Well, that’s the day they always used to serve fried squash. O’Connor, who freely admits he prefers the squash to the company, can’t count on his Wednesday fix anymore. So he’ll be haunting the halls more often. And he isn’t happy about it.
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