Dr. Nancy Snyderman is NBC’s chief medical editor. So for anyone getting their information on diseases, drugs, and breakthrough treatments from the Today show, she is the go-to person.
She recently returned from the region in Africa where Ebola is epidemic. She was subject to a routine quarantine, which she violated by visiting, with some of her TV team, a restaurant where the soup is to die for. Untroubled, evidently, that other people might die as a result of her night out.
Rules – like those subjecting you to quarantine to prevent the epidemic spread of deadly diseases – are for the little people. Snyderman explained, at the time of the incident, that “As a health professional I know that we have no symptoms and pose no risk to the public.”
She understood, though, that the little people might not understand so she was “deeply sorry for the concerns this episode caused.”
Not “I caused.” If you want to get mad, take it out on the “episode.”
Today, Snyderman went a bit further, saying as USA Today reports:
“I wear two hats — I have my doctor hat and I have my journalist hat, and when the science and the messaging sometimes collide, and you leave the optics, in this case a hot zone and come back to the United States, good people can make mistakes. I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sorry.”
Hats, boundaries, optics … and she let the people down.
Sounds like she is worried about her ratings and that she still doesn’t get it.
