The Post failed to question why Congressional representative on the board had not spoken out in support of the exhibit in the face of sharp criticism by a couple of right wing colleagues who had not even seen the show.
Unlike such simple errors as prescribing the wrong dose of medicine or reversing an X-ray, Groopman writes, misdiagnosis is "a window into the medical mind," revealing "why doctors fail to question their assumptions, why their thinking is sometimes closed or skewed, why they overlook the gaps in their knowledge".
And while health reform focuses on coverage, cost, access and care, this is simply triage to a system that fails to ask the question "Why aren't we healthier in the first place?" Our health reform debate is focusing on where health ends (with medical care) and not on where our health begins (where we live, learn, work and play).
But the ousted homeowners will not be easily mollified, and they question why the government failed to step in last year when they bought the land from a local clan.
I have been reading the autobiography of the comedian and actor Steve Martin, which fails to address the question of why such an exciting, funny performer chose to appear in so many dull films but is very interesting on the phenomenon of exponential growth.
Q&A's #MeToo show failed to answer the question: why was it on at all?
Its jabbing subtitle, "How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question — Why We Suffer," sounds as if it should be furiously triple-underlined on the dust jacket.
The tests fail to answer questions about why a Northern Illinois graduate who was well liked by his professors would open fire in a lecture hall on the campus in DeKalb.
But this has failed to satisfy many relatives who questioned why Boeing did not act earlier to take the planes out of service.
"It fails to address the fundamental question as to why we should force terminally ill patients to an unbearable point.
