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Inside NYC hospital's near disaster during Sandy

The Domestic Battery by Ephemeral Scraps
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License

Excerpt:

(CBS News) It was an extraordinary scene at NYU Langone Medical Center after the main and backup power generators failed. The stakes could not have been higher. When I arrived shortly before midnight yesterday, the lobby was filled with doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and a command team of medical center personnel headed by Dr. Robert Grossman, the Dean and CEO of the medical center. They were all racing against time to try to transfer approximately 200 patients out of the Tisch Building. That included 20 newborns - four with breathing tubes - in the intensive care unit, or ICU. Those infants were swaddled in blankets and carefully carried with intravenous lines, oxygen, and monitoring devices attached. I saw a 29-week-old premature being held by a nurse who held an oxygen mask to his face. Anxious faces of parents and family members dotted the lobby.

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Dean

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Organization: Columbia University Medical Center

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Organization: Cornell

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Dr. Jon LaPook gives glimpse into high-stakes operation to move patients, some premature newborns, after hospital's power failure

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Inside NYC hospital's near disaster during Sandy

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Should people be allowed to devocalize their pets? | Synopsis

Should people be allowed to devocalize their pets?

Checking Out The Scoreboard by mynameisharsha
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When Sue Perry adopted her dog Porter two and a half years ago from a rescue group, she noticed he had a hoarse, raspy bark. Her veterinarian confirmed the dog had been devocalized. "He really has trouble breathing even on a very short walk, and he coughs," Perry told CBSNews.com. "Before I really knew anything about this, they thought he had kennel cough. He gags so I have to monitor him closely when he is eating his food, and I have to water it down." "It's horrible, it's horrific," she said. "Don't do it. Devocalization should never be an option."And now she has a petition get the American Veterinary Medical Association to male sure it's never an option. Devocalization, or ventriculocordectomy, is a non-therapeutic surgical procedure that is undertaken to stop a pet from making loud noises, according to the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association.

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0.074773	"As far as I can see, there are no benefits to this surgery," Dr. Alex Klein, a veterinarian with the North Shore Animal League, said
-0.149603	"The consequences are the animal is in chronic pain, and they can't breathe and can't eat well," Klein explained. ...
-0.112331	"The consequences are the animal is in chronic pain, and they can't breathe and can't eat well," Klein explained. "Then, the owners say they don't want the animal anymore and dump it."
-0.168674	"The whole thing boils down to personal responsibility," Klein said. ...
-0.0788107	"The whole thing boils down to personal responsibility," Klein said. "If you are going to get a dog that barks, the answer is not to cut its vocal chords out. You work with a trainer. This doesn't really need to be on the list of things to do."
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-0.285397	"He really has trouble breathing even on a very short walk, and he coughs," Perry told ...
-0.227043	"He really has trouble breathing even on a very short walk, and he coughs," Perry told CBSNews.com. "Before I really knew anything about this, they thought he had kennel cough. He gags so I have to monitor him closely when he is eating his food, and I have to water it down."
-0.406609	"It's horrible, it's horrific," she said. ...
-0.18158	"It's horrible, it's horrific," she said. "Don't do it. Devocalization should never be an option."
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Porter

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Dr. Sheilah Robertson

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Organization: American Veterinary Medical Association

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HealthCondition: infection

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Country: U.S.

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Should people be allowed to devocalize their pets?

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Petition on change.org calls for American vets to ban the surgical procedure that remove's a dog's bark

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