Only in recent times have I discovered the infinite amount of information that the internet offers. You know, it's like a huge sack of brightly coloured clothes on the floor, and you dive in and rummage and rummage and rummage through, only to find more and more treasures you never knew off before. Oh the sweet happiness!! (Yes I have just totally qualified myself as a bona fide female.)

So I leave you with my latest new discovery, The Pulitzer Prize winners and the corresponding articles. We were made to critique 2 articles for an assignment, and this is one assignment I'm sure glad we were made to do. Here's the article that I still, can't get over:

The Troubles at King/Drew

Deadly errors and politics betray a hospital's promise

By Tracy Weber, Charles Ornstein and Mitchell Landsberg

Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

On a warm July afternoon, an impish second-grader named Dunia Tasejo was running home after buying ice cream on her South Los Angeles street when a car sideswiped her. Knocked to the pavement, she screamed for help, blood pouring from her mouth.

Her father bolted from the house to her side. An ambulance rushed her to the nearest hospital: Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center.

For Elias and Sulma Tasejo, there was no greater terror than seeing their 9-year-old daughter strapped to a gurney that day in 2000. But once they arrived at King/Drew, fear gave way to relief.

Dunia's injuries were minor: some scrapes, some bruises and two broken baby teeth. The teeth would have to be pulled.

"They told me to relax," Sulma recalled. "Everything was fine."

At least, it should have been.

What the Tasejos didn't know was that King/Drew, a 233-bed public hospital in Willowbrook, just south of Watts, had a long history of harming, or even killing, those it was meant to serve.

Over the last year, reports by journalists and regulators have offered stark glimpses of failings at King/Drew: Nurses neglecting patients as they lay dying. Staff failing to give patients crucial drugs or giving them toxic ones by mistake. Guards using Taser stun guns on psychiatric patients, despite an earlier warning to stop...

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For the rest of the article, click here. Then click on the year 2005, click on "public service", and finally click on the tab "works".