Comments on: Journalism, harder than neurosurgery? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/journalism-harder-than-neurosurgery.html medical blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:22:08 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: alexa-blue http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/journalism-harder-than-neurosurgery.html/comment-page-1#comment-87711 alexa-blue Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:17:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/journalism-harder-than-neurosurgery.html#comment-87711 I didn't read the article, but Cline's point seems to be that a journalist futilely strives for a platonic ideal of objectivity and comprehensiveness that he will never be able to obtain, thus his obstacles are essential and insurmountable, whereas a neurosurgeon's hurdles are technical and merely finite.<br/><br/>Whatever. On the other hand, it's an empirically verifiable truth that neurosurgery is a growth field, whereas journalism is dying. So, there's that.<br/><br/>I should really be writing clinic notes. I didn’t read the article, but Cline’s point seems to be that a journalist futilely strives for a platonic ideal of objectivity and comprehensiveness that he will never be able to obtain, thus his obstacles are essential and insurmountable, whereas a neurosurgeon’s hurdles are technical and merely finite.

Whatever. On the other hand, it’s an empirically verifiable truth that neurosurgery is a growth field, whereas journalism is dying. So, there’s that.

I should really be writing clinic notes.

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