presidents worth more than us? Options

[T00000]

So I recently came across this article on yahoo news. One section struck me as odd:

Several surgeons uninvolved in Clinton's care said they didn't think his doctors would risk treating him with newer, experimental approaches like robotic surgery or laparoscopy, sometimes called keyhole surgery.


"With three-vessel disease in a president, I don't think I'd be doing it," said Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, chief of cardiovascular surgery at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., and a spokesman for the American College of Cardiology.

Does this mean that average people are less important than presidents? Or what? Because if these procedures are "dangerous" then why would it be okay to do them on other people and risk their lives more than the lives of presidents? It worries me you know... hm.

[jo3]

Everyone loves the question "what makes Bill more important than the rest of us?"...

Has anyone tried to turn the question around and ask "what makes ME more important than Bill Clinton?"

no one's asked me that question before, so i've never had the opportunity to turn it around

Lincoln - Oswald
JFK - Harvey
Clinton - _____

is what the textbooks would say.


and no argument here, doctors should value life as equal for everyone! 

textbooks would say that (minus the assassins because they're wrong), but eventually you'd forget about it (like everyone's forgotten that other President who died because of a bad surgery....i don't even remember his name...either Arthur or Garfield)