We had to kill our patients

The Daily Mail ^ | 09/11/2005 | CAROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY

[kenth]

Another day, another outrage.

[Salvey]

I find this account hard to believe.

[america-rules]

Yea but all the VA hospitals all got evacuated no problem !

[brytlea]

Ditto.

susie

[MikefromOhio]

My God what a mess.

I used to think that we should rebuild the SuperDome. After reading this story, I don't think that building should be left standing.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Yea but all the VA hospitals all got evacuated no problem !

They had a plan, and executed the plan effectively, unlike the mayor of NOLA and gov of LA.

[Mike Darancette]

OK Drudge here is your Siren for tonight.

[Mamzelle]

me, too. Reads "bogus" on my antennae.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Weeeeeeeeeeeelll! Somebody is about to catch hell from "the face of the Katrina survivors," Kenye West. I'll bet these doctors were white Republicans working under orders from President Bush.

Disclaimer: sarcasm

[admiralsn]

I think too many things went on there for it to be considered a place of revelry or happiness ever again.

[MizSterious]

Careful, let's see if its true first. Something about this just doesn't ring true. I'd like to see it verified elsewhere before I buy it.

[garyhope]

Excuse me if I don't believe this.

[Arkie2]

I guess you could call it triage if you wanted to forgive them. However, it is against the law. Hopefully those doctors will face a jury.

[kenth]

If the docs had nothing else, how did they have morphine? It may not be true. Hopefully not.

[kcvl]

PURE BS!!!

[Thebaddog]

Let's have the name of the doctor and the hospital. I want to send my mom there for sure.

[EggsAckley]

Yes, I too find this hard to swallow. Sensationalism.

[technomage]

Watch it folks! This is the Daily Mail. They never look for proof of anything. They just print rumor, slander, innuendo.

Personally I think this story is the figment of some coward's imagination that works at the Daily Snail.

[Blessed]

This is no different from triage that has gone on on ballefields for years.

[Arthalion]

Not an outrage. It's called Triage, and it's an accepted form of medical practice in disasters and warfare. When medical capabilities are limited, you restrict access to it to the patients most likely to benefit from it. You don't waste medical resources on patients who are going to die anyway.

When triage deems a patient incapable of survival, the doctors only duty is to ensure that the patients death is as painless as possible. That's exactly what the doctors in this story did, and it's nothing that they should be chided for.