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Staff at New Orleans hospital debated euthanizing patients
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| Thursday, October 13, 2005
| Kathleen Johnston
Posted on 10/13/2005 4:54:12 AM PDT by WmCraven_Wk
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Words fail me after reading this.
To: WmCraven_Wk
staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing murdering patients
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posted on
10/13/2005 4:57:25 AM PDT
by
ladtx
("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
To: WmCraven_Wk
Talk about an oxymoron:
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
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posted on
10/13/2005 4:57:56 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: dawn53
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!
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:00:53 AM PDT
by
poobear
(Imagine a world of liberal silence!)
To: WmCraven_Wk
Paging God. God, please report to room 1107. STAT!
To: WmCraven_Wk
Words fail me after reading this. How about : "some proof would be nice?"
Remember all the rapes and murders at the Superdome?
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:07:33 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: WmCraven_Wk
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.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:07:50 AM PDT
by
astounded
(We don't need no stinkin' rules of engagement...)
To: Grut
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:08:18 AM PDT
by
Grut
To: astounded
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:09:14 AM PDT
by
motormouth
(Good Grief!)
To: Grut
"some proof would be nice?"
I can only hope and pray that this never happened.
To: WmCraven_Wk
We saw this last night on CNN. One doctor said they approached him and asked him how he felt about euthanasia. He said (I'm approximating his quote)"Are you f*&^%$# crazy?" And he thinks they did do it, he saw a doctor with a handful of syringes, and the deaths from the first days went up by tenfold over night.
Absolutely disgusting.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:13:28 AM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(What this forum needs is another thread on Miers!)
To: astounded; Grut
See my post #11. Apparently the AG and coroner have said they have about 25 deaths occurring at almost the exact same time. And besides the doctor I talked about, a nurse said she was approached about her views on euthanasia by a doctor and hospital administrator.
The doctor she says she talked to told CNN a lot of things happened that shouldn't have, but in essence blamed the government for abandoning them. He didn't deny it.
I think its true.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:17:20 AM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(What this forum needs is another thread on Miers!)
To: eyespysomething
The doctor King alleged held the syringes spoke by phone with CNN on several occasions, emphasizing how everyone inside the hospital felt abandoned.
"[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!
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:20:16 AM PDT
by
Valpal1
(Crush jihadists, drive collaborators before you, hear the lamentations of their media. Allahu FUBAR!)
To: WmCraven_Wk
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.
To: WmCraven_Wk
It would require a big background check , but I recall on one of the Hurricane thread (real time) it was discussed that some hospital staff had euthanized some of the patients.
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.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:24:35 AM PDT
by
mware
(Keeper of the I's)
To: WmCraven_Wk
I am sure that we will later find out that these were all poor black patients.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:25:23 AM PDT
by
Between the Lines
(Be careful how you live your life, it may be the only gospel anyone reads.)
To: WmCraven_Wk
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.
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:26:46 AM PDT
by
IndyInVa
To: Grut
I call B.S. too.
Of course, this will just get the Terribots' undies all in a twist.
To: eyespysomething
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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posted on
10/13/2005 5:36:23 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: WmCraven_Wk; All
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posted on
10/13/2005 5:39:23 AM PDT
by
Aracelis
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