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Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Giving
Great Day
Joy
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Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Life Happiness
Secret
Self
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Alignment = Magic & Miracles ... Keep your standards high. YOU are worth it!
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Magic
Miracle
Standards
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The threat from extreme weather events highlights the importance of investing in preparedness.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Events
Highlights
Importance
Investing
Preparedness
Threat
Weather
Extreme
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There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Disaster
Midst
Tomorrow
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Our dreams are expressions of our inner beauty. I've learned that it's completely okay to want whatever you want.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Dream
Expression
Inner Beauty
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Often in life, the most important question we can ask ourselves is: do we really have the problem we think we have?
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Important
Problem
Thinking
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There are places in the world that the power goes out in hospitals, and there isn't clean water, and it's horrific.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Clean
Clean Water
Horrific
Hospitals
Places
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Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Men
Care
Dying
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A patient healthy enough to undergo a kidney transplant might someday no longer need dialysis. That would free up a slot for a new patient.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Healthy
Might
Needs
Patient
Someday
Longer
Slot
Undergo
Transplant
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Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Conflict
Hospitals
Journalism
Zone
Aid
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But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Gone
Harm
Patient
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Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Choices
Matter
Trying
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The journalistic code of ethics governing the broadcasts requires that opposing views be presented, and that journalists' personal opinions or judgments be left out of factual reporting.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Code
Ethics
Factual
Governing
Journalistic
Views
Judgments
Opinions
Personal
Presented
Reporting
Requires
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The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Choices
Confusing
Disaster
Ethical
Moral
Moral Values
Navigate
Normal
Values
Laws
Codes
Times
Guide
Help
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In the United States, Western Europe and Japan, there is widespread access to dialysis, most of it publicly funded. But in many countries, the majority of patients who need dialysis die without it.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Access
Japan
Majority
Western
Western Europe
Patients
Publicly
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That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book
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Book
Important
Objectivity
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It is human nature to be shortsighted and to lose momentum to make changes once the story is out of the headlines and there aren't financial incentives or political rewards. We owe to ourselves to learn from the past so we can try to do better.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Financial
Headlines
Human Nature
Incentives
Momentum
Rewards
Owe
Lose
Shortsighted
Story
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It remains to be seen the extent to which the critical needs of seniors in low income high rises, people with home medical needs and those with disabilities have been adequately planned for and met during widespread power outages. I fear the answers.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Medical
Answers
Critical
Income
Remains
Adequately
Disabilities
Extent
Widespread
Low
Met
Planned
Rises
Seniors
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Having worked in disasters, I have seen that, in those critical first few hours, those first few days - so much ends up riding on you and your neighbor and whoever is around. The official response always comes later, and it always feels like it comes too slow.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Critical
Feels
Hours
Neighbor
Response
Riding
Seen
Days
Disasters
Few
Later
Official
Slow
Whoever
Worked
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Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Emergencies
Loved Ones
Preparedness
Resources
Views
Advocate
Allocated
Hospital
Local
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If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Disaster
Repercussions
Significant
Decisions
Act
Creatively
Do Your Best
Passed
Rumors
Spirits
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When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study of death certificates and disaster mortuary team records. Many of them might have been saved if they had been evacuated sooner.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Disaster
Hospitals
Long Term
Nursing
Saved
According
Sooner
Deaths
Facilities
Homes
Published
Recently
Roughly
Struck
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Also, and this may sound naïve, but since my early days in journalism, I've felt that getting as close as possible to truth, revealing the reality of a situation in detail, has its own persuasive power. This allows readers to look at the facts and the perspectives presented and draw informed conclusions.
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Perspective
Reality
Sound
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While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving thousands of sick people has its own risks. Gustav also highlighted a critical vulnerability of American hospitals - an inability to withstand prolonged blackouts.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Critical
Failing
Hospitals
Hurricane Katrina
Inability
Moving
Path
Sick
Storm
Vulnerability
Dangers
Hurricane
Prolonged
Risks
Thousands
Withstand
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Ever since Katrina, there has been a proliferation of efforts at the state level and among hospital administrators to come up with guidelines that would help professionals stuck in a situation like this to prioritize patients. These are questions of values much more than they are of medicine or nursing. They're the province of everybody.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Administrators
Guidelines
Medicine
Nursing
Prioritize
Proliferation
Situation
Stuck
Since
Among
Efforts
Hospital
Patients
Professionals
Province
State Level
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Soon after a disaster passes, we tend to turn our eyes away and focus our resources on the day-to-day, rather than on preparing for the rare, but foreseeable and potentially catastrophic disaster. It's another form of triage, how much we invest in preparing for that, a very important question for public policy. We are a short-sighted species.
Sheri Fink / Journalist
Eye
Focus
Important
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