Posted on 10/13/2005 4:54:12 AM PDT by WmCraven_Wk
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal, according to a doctor and nurse manager who were in the hospital at the time.
The Louisiana attorney general's office is investigating allegations that mercy killings occurred and has requested that autopsies be performed on all 45 bodies taken from the hospital after the storm.
Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said investigators have told him they think euthanasia may have been committed.
"They thought someone was going around injecting people with some sort of lethal medication," Minyard said.
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Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal
euthanizing those that might not survive
The whole area sounds like a third world country. Amazing how everyone including so called "professionals" responded to this Cat 3 hurricane disaster. Imagine if this behavior had gone on in Florida after 4 HURRICANES!
Disgusting!
Paging God. God, please report to room 1107. STAT!
How about : "some proof would be nice?"
Remember all the rapes and murders at the Superdome?
I just want you all to consider that this is the so-called "mainstream media" - CNN - reporting this. It would be wise to remember that most of what the MSM reported in the immediate aftermath of Katrina was lies and damned lies. This story smells. I would not put a lot of faith in CNN to report the truth.
Oh, and the cannibalism.
My thoughts exactly!
MM
"some proof would be nice?"
I can only hope and pray that this never happened.
"[We] did everything humanly possible to save these patients," the doctor told CNN. "The government totally abandoned us to die. In the houses, in the streets, in the hospitals. ... Maybe a lot of us made mistakes, but we made the best decisions we could at the time."
Bush's fault!
If true, not to worry, surely they got the legal advice of George Felos and "Judge" Greer. Hey they might have even pulled Kevorkian out of jail to make sure no one that might not survive did not.
I can't recall the one who posted it or the exact thread but we also discussed (real time) about the nursing home that had bugged out leaving the patients.
I am sure that we will later find out that these were all poor black patients.
1. Could be more fantasy from the media.
2. I REALLY hope this did not occur, BUT...
3. I would not be too quick to judge people who were in a VERY difficult situation, one that most of us will never have to face. That would not make it right, but if I were in charge, I might not prosecute if I thought those involved made an anguished and reluctant decision. If I thought the decision was made because the patients were just a bother, I would zealously prosecute.
I call B.S. too.
Of course, this will just get the Terribots' undies all in a twist.
Of course, if they did lose power, and the generators failed, patients who had been on ventilators might have died around the same time.
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