Mercy Killing in NO?

Self | 9-11-05 | Self

[Mike Darancette]

I was just dozing off and thought I heard (o FOX) that doctors in NOLA were giving patients lethal doses of morphine?

[roses of sharon]

The Dr knew help was coming, and killed them anyway?

[Mike Darancette]

You Trust the NYT and CNN more?

[TexasCajun]

Dr. Kevorkian was heard screaming, "Let Me Out! I'm An Experience Rescue Worker!"

[mystery-ak]

Good Lord..I just read the account on the other thread!

[virgil]

People are killed, people die. We put animals to sleep. I'd think a doctor would know the difference.

[hiredhand]

My wife is a Neuroscience BSN/RN. Here's what's probably happening. People die. This IS a fact. In combat, many times, when half of somebody's brain is hanging off their shoulder due to a massive cranial trauma..but the person lingers on, they "sedate" them knowing they aren't going to survive.

But in a combat surgical theater, it's a little different. In this "world", sometimes it's not as obvious as the physical trauma that's due to tools of war. But the person is dying all the same. All the medical professionals involved know it, and it's a heart wrenching thing to watch. She's had kids die in her arms, and has held an old person's hand as they took their last breath. She's come home in tears so many times that I've lose count, and she has never become "hard" to these things she sees. I asked her once what upset her so badly, and for a long time afterwards I wished that I hadn't. It gave me bad dreams for three nights in a row.

Here's the way it works. IF the person is dying, and especially if the person is in great pain, they WILL administer a pain killer such as morphine. There are dosage guidelines based on body weight, but these medical folks usually have a pretty good idea if a high dose (but still within the guidelines) is going to "push the person over the edge".

I've asked her if she was ever personally responsible for doing something like this, and she said emphatically NO. But it does happen. Usually, a doctor makes the decision, and either he, or one of the RNs (under his orders) administers the sedative. Nobody actually discusses that they're performing a mercy killing, but that's what's happening.

Of course, the MSM is going to spin this into "mercy killing"...a.k.a. euthansia. It shouldn't matter to them since they kill their unborn by the thousands every day. But this will matter.

When it's all said and done, they'll end up with a doctor who plainly states...and with good documentation, and staff to witness...that the deceased person was terminal. They administered a sedative according to the manufacturer's guidelines, and the the person didn't pull through. End of story.

[Conservababe]

It is not uncommon for patients in any hospital in the USA that are about to die to be given large amounts of morphine to ease their deaths. The morphine does contribute to a more rapid death than would be otherwise.

We had to take my mother off the ventilator and she was given large doses of morphine to ease her agonizing last breaths. I am grateful to the physicians.

We have too many hysterics on FR these days.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1482468/posts


Excerpt:

We had to kill our patients (Superdome euthanasia)
The Daily Mail ^ | 09/11/2005 | CAROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY

Posted on 09/11/2005 5:36:06 PM EDT by kenth

Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.

[TheDon]

I'll put my money on this being another rumor.

[clintonh8r]

just about

[Conservababe]

Great informative post. And may I add that these medical personnel were in a triage situation that was probably worse than in a war zone. I am just glad that they administered the morphine.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

The Terri Schiavo precedent opened the floodgates.

Now other people get to determine your time to die. Welcome to the hospital of the 21st century killing fields.

[BigFinn]

Perhaps Mr. Shiavo was in charge there. And the courts would approve...
however, I think this is a BOGUS account.

[Squantos]

Good first hand info....Thanks !

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Fruits of the Terri Schiavo case.

[hiredhand]

Great informative post. And may I add that these medical personnel were in a triage situation that was probably worse than in a war zone. I am just glad that they administered the morphine.

Thanks. It really set my jaw tight to see the "knee jerk" because of this. It's just like the MSM to focus on "mercy killing", while we still haven't heard much about all the dead bodies they found in the freezer at the "dome" in NOLA....one of which was a small girl who had her throat cut, and who had been raped.

I'm pretty sure this won't get any traction. :-)

[Age of Reason]

Better to end it quickly than have people in torment.

[sweetliberty]

Have you seen this?

[nicmarlo]

no, and I don't have on Fox....has it been heard elsewhere?