Ohio better wake up before all its doctors leave

Ohio better wake up before all its doctors leave
EDITOR:
Some of our very good local doctors are moving out of town, leaving us with anxiety and sadness and hoping all others remain here for us.
Recently this was an announcement to the public by several well known physicians, and reports tell us others are considering it as well.
Ohio has a problem. We are voters in Ohio for our state representatives so we have the right to voice our opinion on what these reps do for us or are not doing.
Malpractice insurance is the reason our doctors in Ohio are being unfairly treated. Premiums are rising continually and nearly meet a doctor's yearly income. Is this fair? Why is this happening in Ohio?
Other states are drawing our good doctors away. Why?
Mahoning, Trumubll and Columbiana counties have always been proud and fortunate for the excellent medical care available to us and for the fine hospitals here. We can't afford to destroy this privilege.
We know some people are "sue crazy" and listen to some lawyers who make it sound easy to sue doctors. And because of them, premiums continue to rise. Before we know it, we will have to travel hundreds of miles for the excellent care we have available now. Would you like that?
You and I can help. Write today to our Ohio state offices and those representing us. I am! Write demanding as a law abiding citizen of Ohio that it is time for them to take action on our behalf. Save our doctors!
NANCY L. GENCO
New Springfield
Death penalty is wrong; execution coverage was, too
EDITOR:
I would like to comment on the way that death row prisoner's executions are covered in the media. I am opposed to the death penalty; I do not think that anyone -- criminal or authority -- has the right to take another person's life. I believe a person who commits a crime so horrific that it deems the death penalty needs to sit in prison for the rest of their life and face the crime they committed day in and out. The death penalty does not punish the criminal as much as it does the family of the convicted. Death is the easy way out for the prisoner.
I feel so sorry for the Clemente family and the loss that they deal with must be unbearable. They say that they need closure and seeing the person who murdered their daughter and granddaughter put to death will give them that closure. I want to say there is another family suffering also, and the Vrabel family will never have closure. They will live with the memories and knowledge of what happened the rest of their lives. The parents, siblings, and relatives of the murderer will never have peace, they can only hope the media lets this event go once the day of the execution has passed.
I think that the coverage in the paper July 13 was terrible -- the details of what will happen, the account of the drugs going into the veins of the prisoner and how his heart and respirations will come to a stop was more information than we as readers needed to know. I cannot believe that we have become so morbid that we need to read every detail of someone's last days on earth. The families are suffering enough without the cheap thrill of getting every single detail of the minutes leading up to execution published for everyone to read about.
The last time someone was put to death, we had to read about how he held his thumb up before dying ... it brought tears to my eyes.
I hope that someday the death penalty in Ohio will be a thing of the past, but until it is I hope that the media will be kinder in covering the event. Remember there are two families suffering, we are only compassionate to one. The other family has to live every day with the shame and pain of what has happened, let's try not to rub salt into their wounds.
ROSEMARY SMITH
Youngstown