Posted on 02/14/2006 6:26:01 PM PST by Ellesu
Subnani saw Whittington in Kingsville:
An Alice surgeon was one of two doctors that first treated Harry Whittington, an avid hunter that was pellet sprayed by Vice-President Dick Cheney Saturday evening while quail hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in Kenedy County.
"We usually don't take care of gun shot wounds, but they wanted to come to the Kingsville hospital," said Raj Subnani, a surgeon for CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Alice and CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Kleberg. "We immediately, including all the nursing staff, took care of him (Whittington)."
He said that about 15 to 20 Kingsville hospital staff members helped care for Whittington that included a CAT scan by a technician. He and the staff were upset that most media reports didn't even mention Whittington's first stop at the Kingsville hospital. Subnani was called from his Alice home to the Kingsville hospital Saturday about 6:15 p.m. He said he rushed to the hospital and arrived about 30 minutes later as the ambulance arrived at the Kingsville hospital from the Armstrong Ranch. According to Associated Press reports, Cheney accidentally shot his 78-year-old hunter companion during a weekend quail hunting trip at the Armstrong Ranch, about 30 miles from Kingsville. Whittington went to retrieve a bird and Cheney failed to see him and shot him with pellet shots, reports said. Whittington, an Austin attorney, was removed from the intensive care unit Monday and remains in stable condition at CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Memorial in Corpus Christi. Whittington could be sent home as early as today, reports said.
Despite reports that Whittington was treated at Spohn Memorial, Subnani said he and another emergency doctor, Fred Martin, checked and stabilized Whittington in the Kingsville hospital.
"Most of the injuries were superficial," he said as he pointed to the areas where Whittington was injured. "He had pellets throughout the neck, chest and abdomen with b-b bullets under the skin."
Subnani said the injuries were not life-threatening and as the swelling diminishes, the pellets can be pulled out with a small incision. He said an antibiotic was all that was needed to cure the tears in the skin. The doctor said Whittington, about an hour and a half later, was transferred by HALO-Flight to Corpus Christi as a VIP courtesy.
"The treatment was started and there was no need to be sent to Memorial hospital," Subnani said. "Except he was part of the VIP party…he got the best royal treatment. If it was a regular citizen like you and I, he would have been sent home."
Someone tell this to that screaming queen David Gregory.
Funny, I don't remember a surgeon on Alice.
Kiss My Grits. lol.
perhaps it was a good thing that he was transferred..
the Doctor on Brit Hume's show was very enlightening regarding the heart incident.
David Gregory is a screaming Queen no doubt, I don't want to hear about the connected wife and subsequent child!
Dang it
Start new website "Igotpeppered.com"
sheesh
TT
Wasn't Alice where the 200 votes mysteriously materialized that allowed Lyndon Baines Johnson (a.k.a. "Landslide Lyndon") to win the 1948 Democratic primary for senator by 87 votes?
So then why was he put into ICU at Christus Spohn? ICU isn't necessarily VIP treatment. ICU is often done as a precaution as well as a necessity.
Then he has a heart attack.
I want to know when miss Gregory is going to ask the burning question all of America wants to know- did Cheney or did Cheney not hit the quail?
So, I recognize Helen Thomas on the right, but who's that dick. . . err, duck on the left; David Gregory?
PR? I think if there is anything you can take for granted from this President its that he does'nt pay much attention to polls and he does'nt pander to the media.
What should have FEMA done in the wake of Katrina? Declared marshal law and done all the things that LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO DO?
As for Cheney and him shooting this guy while they were hunting together, what possible difference would it have made if they had told the WH press corps on Saturday night instead of Sunday?
"Cheney shooting victim"
The media has been waiting for years to use that in the headline. There's no way they're going to pass up the opportunity.
Hogwash.
It's a media story the media is trying to make everyone else give a crap about.
One does not govern on PR unless you are Bill Clinton
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