Talk:Cary Grant

Politics

I also added a brief section on Grant's political views, noting he was not an overtly political figure by his own admission but did make the 1976 GOP appearance and occassionally commented on events

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The Ultimate Malpractice

The doctor who stood by and watched Cary Grant die because Grant "refused to go to the hospital" is guilty of the ultimate malpractice imaginable: executing Cary Grant due to criminal incompetence. What kind of doctor doesn't realize that one of the features of a stroke is not being able to think straight while you're having one? Racing Forward (talk) 12:55, 5 May 2022 (UTC)

@Racing Forward- Do have a source for your accusations? According to his article, Grant's wife was with him in the hotel. What did she say about the night of the stroke and Grant's refusal of medical aide? Would the doctor not have followed her directions if she had told him to transport Grant? You cannot accuse someone of "ultimate malpractice", "executing", and "criminal incompetence" without a solid foundation, even if they are dead (is he dead?). I doubt that Wikipedia's lawyers would be very thrilled with these slanderous, unsourced statements. Please let us know where we can find your sources. Thank you, Wordreader (talk) 00:39, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

It's all right there in the article itself, properly footnoted:

"Grant was taken back to the Blackhawk Hotel where he and his wife had checked in, and a doctor was called and discovered that he was having a massive stroke, with a blood pressure reading of 210 over 130. Grant refused to be taken to the hospital. The doctor recalled: "The stroke was getting worse. In only fifteen minutes he deteriorated rapidly. It was terrible watching him die and not being able to help. But he wouldn't let us." By 8:45 p.m., Grant had slipped into a coma and was taken to St. Luke's Hospital in Davenport, Iowa. He spent 45 minutes in the emergency room before being transferred to intensive care. He died at 11:22 p.m., aged 82."

A feature of a stroke is the brain being unable to function normally, by definition. The same is true of a heart attack, with its diminishment of oxygen to the brain. The doctor describes the "stroke...getting worse. In only fifteen minutes he deteriorated rapidly. It was terrible watching him die and not being able to help. But he wouldn't let us." When Grant eventually "slipped into a coma" he was finally taken to the emergency room, at which point it was too late to save him. It was the doctor's duty on the spot to overrule the stroke-impaired Grant and call an ambulance immediately, regardless of anything Grant or his wife might have said or done. This is all self-evident for anyone who understands strokes. Why did they finally rush him to the ER when he lost consciousness? The physician knew that in the case of a stroke, speed is absolutely necessary and that the patient is in no condition to make a cogent decision about his own life-or-death situation while impaired by a rapidly worsening stroke. Nor does the life-or-death decision rest with the spouse, for a variety of starkly obvious reasons. It's the physician on the scene's responsibility. Why was the doctor called in the first place if not to try to save the man's life? Once he was there, it was obviously his responsibility. Not the confused dying patient's ("It was terrible watching him die and not being able to help. But he wouldn't let us," the doctor later said), not his wife's, not the maid's or the porter's or even the owner of the hotel or the president of the United States. The doctor's. That's why he was there. Racing Forward (talk) 16:34, 13 February 2023 (UTC)

Cary Grant's accent

Grant's accent British with a try for America which comes out Beautifully but British. 2601:243:812:9640:A46B:118A:63C:FD9 (talk) 14:41, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, your point being…? – AndyFielding (talk) 06:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

"British" is pretty vague and misleading. There's quite a bit of cockney in Grant's accent. TheScotch (talk) 13:25, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Excessively long lede

It seems common for WP's celebrity articles to have ledes that run away with themselves like this, no doubt from fan enthusiasm. However, a successful lede is an introduction to an article, usually a single paragraph summarizing its major points and encouraging people to read on—not something like this, which competes with the article in its level of detail. Can we do something about it? – AndyFielding (talk) 07:05, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Fan enthusiasm?? It is pretty concise for such a prominent actor, nothing wrong with the length, it needs to be reasonable to summarize the whole article. It's 464 words, WP:Lead recommends 250-400 words for featured articles. And this isn't. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)