The echoing pain of traumatic news events

the medical world struggles with ethical considerations and especially during these times of increased need for medical care, questions regarding who will get the vaccine and who will not, and many other issues which are part of bioethical considerations.
The media seems to hype the issues and yet not mention the fact that those involved in treating patients and distributing medications and vaccines are governed by established rules of bioethics.
Shouldn't we be teaching the public about the decision making processes that take place to insure fairness and equality?

Recovering from coma these days is rather common, but recovering from a 2 month coma in 1964 was rare. I did, but I understand I was breathing erratically for several days. (My Mother, who was an RN was allowed to stay in my room 24 hrs. to help the specialists
since I was thrashing violently.) IWhen I "awoke" I had to re-learn walking, talking, and how to feed myself. I struggled to finish my college education, but I couldn't. (I had been a 3.5 student at Oberlin College-definitely not an easy school.) It took me 11 years to find a doctor to help me. After he took my first CAT scan, he told me that essentially my brain had been crushed. I now have the simple partial seizures under control with dilantin and neurontin., and have motor and sensory neuropathy and fibromyalgia, but I'm alive. Somebody up there likes me!

I've worked in various jobs for a newspaper, and they too have this situation of "How do we keep it safe?" The only thing I can think of is, if you can't keep it safe, you can keep at least keep the comments pertinent.

it's a sign that you're doing your job that people feel they can debate their arguements via CNN; however, as I just said, the comments need to be pertinent, even if they're not considered 100% nice.

Any person not strong enough emotionally to handle this shouldn't put themselves at risk by reading possibly negative views, or post on places like CNN.

I don't see any reason why reader comments shouldn't be moderated exactly as submitted letters to the Editor would be. Publishing a select, respectfully written few that effectively cover the "pro", "con" or "alternate" side of the story (while allowing readers the option to to "recommend" the point of view they agree with) should suffice.

Hoping that the community will police itself (via "report abuse" button) is a pipe dream. Why wait around for a reader to report someone has made an abusive remark? By then, 1000s of people may have already seen it.

What I don't understand is why "real time" comments are permitted at all on stories that deal with violent, traumatic incidents, such as the death of that beautiful 5 year old girl, or Jaycee Duggard's story.

I will have to say that CNN.com does a MUCH better job of monitoring sensitive stories than other news outlets. It's part of the reason I like visiting this site.

Another idea I had was one that my local newspaper does... They "hide" all comments by default. If you want to see the comments &/or contribute, then you can "Click here to see comments."