I'm sure obozo & Co see great potential for this "Doctor" in their government run death panel health care plan.
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Posted on 09/07/2009 9:09:16 AM PDT by wagglebee
New information has surfaced regarding euthanization of elderly patients at a New Orleans hospital during Hurricane Katrina.
A doctor has admitted administering a lethal dose of morphine to one patient knowing that it would kill her. "There's no question I hastened her demise," Dr. Ewing Cook told an independent investigation organization. "I gave her medicine so I could get rid of her faster, get the nurses off the [hospital] floor." The patient, Jannie Burgess, 79, was suffering from uterine cancer and kidney failure. "To me, it was a no-brainer -- and to this day I don't feel bad about what I did," Cook added.
Rita Marker of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide understands the intense stress doctors and nurses were under during the hurricane, but she believes the attitude expressed by Dr. Cook shows little feeling for life.
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
It is MURDER and Zero wants to make it the norm.
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I don’t believe anyone smart enough to be a doctor would be dumb enough to admit to committing murder. I suspect Ms. Marker will be hearing from Dr. Ewing’s attorney right quick.
Correction: Dr. Cook.
What if moving her would have killed her anyway? or the delays also got some nurses killed by the thugs?
You are supporting this murderer?
What is outrageous is how often might he do it now ... that he has once actually deliberately killed a person?
He might begin to do it earlier and earlier, or he may in fact have a god complex and believe he is powerful enough to make these decisions any time he chooses.
DANGER ... it is the DOCTOR to be afraid of trusting.
“What if moving her would have killed her anyway?
What if moving her had saved her life?
We can’t live in a world of hypotheticals like this. The job of a doctor is to save lives, not take them. We cannot compromise here. That’s a slippery slope we really, really don’t want to go down.
The awards dinner included a speech, given by (I suppose) the recipient of the award. I don't know the details, as I was just in the band and wasn't paying much attention. Until the speech was well underway, that is.
The speaker was a senior member of the surgical staff of the hospital with which the medical school was affiliated. He was a typical surgeon. Thin, tall, handsome, very confident, opinionated. Kind of like a coach or a CEO.
His speech was about (and this I only realized when he was well into it) the unfortunate strictures under which doctors were placed by society when it came to the sorts of things that should be done for patients when the end was near. He seemed to be making the case for the allowance of considerable latitude for physicians to be allowed to hasten the end in situations of that sort. He also made a statement to the effect that "we all know what really goes on," trying, in effect, to include the whole audience (probably 250 people, spouses included). As I recall it, that particular element of the speech fell flat. I recall people near where I was sitting (they were seated at banquet tables) looking at each other in what might have been embarrasment.
I've told this story here before, so forgive me if you've already seen it.
And this is more evidence that a government-run, heavily bureaucratic system, in which care is inevitably rationed, there will be many "legal" reasons for sick, disabled, elderly people to be put down like dogs.
Some of this inevitable (because people are flawed, and make bad choices during hurricanes, etc) but the rate at which this happens will be magnified as government intrudes more and more.
I've been told a thousand times that the notion of "death panels" has been debunked. Nope. It's absolutely inevitable.
“I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan...”
Neither would Zeus, it is what gods do.
I was told by a doctor that over the past 30 years the Hippocratic oath is optional, not required. Hence the onward slide into the culture of death. Ask your own doctor if he took the oath, it may make a difference between your own life and death.
Then she would not have been MURDERED.
or the delays also got some nurses killed by the thugs?
By this logic EVERY patient should have been murdered.
I'm sure obozo & Co see great potential for this "Doctor" in their government run death panel health care plan.
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Are you aware of any info regarding the structure of the hospital in relation to the flooding? Was it completely submerged?
No, the ground floor and basement were flooded and there was no electricity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Medical_Center,_New_Orleans#Hurricane_Katrina
Has the family complained?
Why, is it your belief that murder is okay if the family doesn’t complain?
And yet he has.
“A doctor has admitted administering a lethal dose of morphine to one patient knowing that it would kill her. “There's no question I hastened her demise,” Dr. Ewing Cook told an independent investigation organization. “I gave her medicine so I could get rid of her faster, get the nurses off the [hospital] floor.”
A lethal dose is a lethal dose. It's murder any which way you look at it. I can see his dilemma, but it's no excuse for murder. If he had to evacuate the hospital, then give her a non lethal dose of morphine to knock her out and throw her over your shoulder and carry her out. If she dies, well, then at least you can say you tried. I wonder what they did with her body? Did they just leave her there to rot?
If she died in the process, it goes under the "we didn't have any choice" category.
Deciding to kill her on purpose was deciding to murder her for convenience.
Now, if Dr. Cook's lawyer doesn't go after the reporter hammer-and-tongs, then maybe there's something to it. But murder is a heavy charge and we ought to be skeptical of it.
there were no “Thugs”: This was bad reporting by news reporters who hated Bush and were trying to make things look worse than they were.
And the real scandal is that the generators were in the basement in a flood prone area...and no body wanted to spend money to evacuate the patients prior to the hurricane...
As for transport, yes she might have died...or maybe not...air medivac helicopters are quite sophisticated nowadays...and even if they loaded the patients in the back of a bus for a three hour ride to Baton Rouge, she might have lived for another couple of months...
some of us who try to give the huge doses of narcotics to stop a person's pain could easily be accused of killing them, which is why docs are so nervous about the discussion.
I wrote about the fine line HERE.
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