Opinion: In today’s pages: Closing King-Harbor
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The editorial board thinks fashion copyrights would kill creativity in the industry, and asks L.A. County to finally close Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital:
Just walking into the building, inspectors saw that patients were in immediate jeopardy. Further probing showed that staff failed to track records, properly mix medicine and sterilize equipment. At a time when the hospital should have been most on its toes, with staff well aware that they were being evaluated for the quality of care they delivered, a patient notoriously was left writhing on the floor for nearly an hour while nurses ignored her and a custodian swept up around her dying body. Others were left misdiagnosed, untreated or abused.
Contributing editor Erin Aubry Kaplan asks where middle-class blacks were when King-Harbor needed them. Columnist Ronald Brownstein says it’s too bad the tactically brilliant Rove served a flawed strategy. The Cato Institute’s Sigrid Fry-Revere argues in favor of experimental drugs for the terminally ill, and writer Bruce Kluger thinks that even though DVDs won’t fry a baby’s brain, time is probably better spent with parents.
Letter writers react to the long delays at LAX. UCLA Professor Algirdas Avizienis says, ‘In 40 years of studying computer reliability, I have not seen more apparent incompetence than the 10-hour search for ‘a faulty hardware switch’ at LAX on Aug. 11.’