NYTimes, AP: Rep. Giffords’s progress shown in her conversations
The progress by badly wounded Gabrielle Giffords, shot in the head by a would-be assassin whose bullet passed through a portion of one frontal lob in Arizona last month, gave the public a lift in the last day or so. Several news reports described improvement if not full recovery in her ability to speak.
None of these quite qualify as technical medical writing. Reports come second and third hand from friends and relations, and public word that she has spoken with her astronaut brother in law by phone call to orbit.
The public is following this news with great interest. The AP story, by one report, ranked number one for awhile on the list of most-read stories.
Stories:
- NYTimes – Marc Lacey, James C. McKinley Jr. (with Denise Grady) : Word and Lyric, Giffords Labors to Speak Again. The news, plus a good sense of the atmosphere in the hospital .
- AP – Malcolm Ritter: Doctors work to help Giffords’ brain rewire itself ; Ritter wisely turns quickly from the scant details on the Congresswoman’s clinical condition to an explanation in general terms of how injured brains may partly or even wholly heal themselves. He also gently tip toes up to an implied speculation that few want to discuss quite yet: whether she will be able to continue her work in Congress.
- ABC News – Bob Woodruff: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Lip-Syncs Lyrics to Songs ; Interesting. While the story does not say she understands detailed political briefings she is getting, people attending strongly believe that she does. Woodruff, with personal experience with head injury, gives the story extra impact just by putting his byline on it. He wrote a recent, more general piece: Gabrielle Giffords: Recovery From Brain Injury.
- Charlie Petit
