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08:25 July 28th, 2007

Insensitive headline?

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: Uncategorized

Chinese “elephant man” undergoes first operation

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese doctors removed part of a patient’s crippling 15 kg (33 lb) tumor mass drooping from his head and face on Tuesday, the biggest on record, and his condition was stable, doctors said.

I must let you known that I was taken back on your HEADLINE. How cruel it is to label a human.  After all has he not been hurt enough. We all need to be more kind.

Dolores

Possibly more to the point, the phrase “elephant man” was never mentioned or explained in the story itself, which just made it that much stranger to see it in the headline: GBU Editor

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