NBC reporter David Bloom dies in Iraq

[Nick]

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David Bloom

From MSNBC - NEW YORK, April 6 — David Bloom, an NBC News correspondent embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division outside Baghdad, died Sunday, NBC announced. Bloom, a 39-year-old husband and father of three, died of an apparent pulmonary embolism, the company said. He was the second American journalist to die in Iraq since the war began...more (http://www.msnbc.com/news/896267.asp?0cv=CA01)

David was a favorite of mine. He was one of the good guys.
I mourn his untimely passing as a personal loss.

[Mike123abc]

I wonder how sudden the collapse was, if he had time to get medical attention. I wonder if he had been in the US if he could have gotten to a hospital in time.

[Karl Foster]

They come on so fast. My wife had a PE after having surgery, but her doctor was able to catch it before it broke loose and went to her heart. With the aid of an angioplasty, they were able to break up the clot. If she hadn't already been an inpatient in the hospital, they never would have caught it and she would have died. A pulmonary embolism only has to move inches to be fatal - from the lungs to the heart. If he wasn't exhibiting symptoms, and wasn't already in a hospital, this condition would have been fatal regardless of where he was at. Pretty serious stuff.

[DDRio]

A very good reporter. He was the best. A favorite od mine. That "bloommobile" was really something. I will miss his reports.

[CoriBright]

Having worked in a tv newsroom for three and a half years I can understand completely the MSNBC's grief in the loss of their colleague from their family. Our deepest sympathies go to them and his great family.

The Bloommobile and its heroic reporter will be very sadly missed in this household.

[mainedish]

According to NBC news he was having leg and stomach pains 2 days before.

[Jacob S]

Then it sounds like something could have been done for him since that was 2 days earlier, the question is: Why was nothing done?

[jrjcd]

i suspect, being the reporter that he was, he probably chalked it up to the rough conditions and decided to "tough it out" for the story....

[Frank Z]

I too enjoyed his reports from the field, he was one of the few reporters I've seen that did not hype his own personal agenda. Our thoughts a prayers go out to his family.

[Richard King]

It appears that two more were killed today in an attack on an American camp site near Baghdad.