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Posted At : March 18, 2008 06:40 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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After two weeks of torpor, Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons finally took substantive action on the growing hepatitis crisis. He tried to pink-slip several of the worst enablers of Dr. Dipak Desai, only to have at least two of the six give him the finger. (No, make that three.) One even accuses Gibbons of engaging in score-settling -- and The Gibber does have a history of vindictive and petty behavior -- even accusing him of "ineptitude." But Nevadans are getting pretty inured to hearing "Gibbons" and "inept" in the same breath.
Desai, meanwhile gets to keep his license and has "agreed" to stop practicing on ... er, practicing medicine in Nevada -- but only while the current investigation runs its course. Makes you feel so much better, doesn't it? Meanwhile, new cases of hepatitis C, sadly, continue to turn up.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Molly Ball has a devastating piece on The Gibber's fortnight of flip-floppery, which includes rightward-leaning political commentator Erik Herzik saying, in essence, that Gibbons is overwhelmed by his office. Not to be outdone, the Las Vegas Sun provides a partial timeline of The Gibbers' waffling. (Note that the two left feet in the accompanying graphic.) The Sun also quantifies how much Desai pocketed by playing Russian roulette with his patients' health, raising the question: What doth it profit a man if he gain $676K but lose his own soul?
The paper also dissects Gibbons' bizarre, disjunctive behavior and utters a veiled call for his resignation. Across town, his fan club says he was just the victim of bad advice. Oh, and he was handicapped by trying to deal with the situation "from 400 miles away." As the kids say, "ROTFLMAO!"
Perhaps we could all chip in and buy The Gibber airfare to Las Vegas, seeing as the R-J's editors seem to think that Gibbons lives in the same Dark Ages as they, bereft of telephone, fax, Internet, teleconference, satellite uplink and perhaps even a printing press. Is the Pony Express still running, perchance?
Whatever his excuse, Gibbons has frittered away valuable time in responding to the hepatitis scare ... and relinquished his authority in the process. No wonder he is now defied with impunity.
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