Posted on 09/11/2005 2:36:06 PM PDT by kenth
I said it in another post, I thought it was what I heard on the FNC interview. I went and looked up the article by the reporter who was being interviewed on FNC.
The article says they were in hosptials, not the Super dome. At least that is how this article begins.
I don't. I would have done the same thing.
"Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana, and The Mail on Sunday is protecting the identities of the medical staff concerned to prevent them being made scapegoats for the events of last week."
While fully believeable, I will consider this just another British tabloid jab at the federal level utilizing one witness but having no back-up but anonymous sources. The scapegoats angle clearly proves this.
Getting critical care patients out in short order is extremely difficult. Heck, all levels of government didn't get anybody out who could not drive out on their own. It was a massive failure from top to bottom, and all deserve blame. Never again.
Docs are complicit in putting down patients all the time. They give careful instuctions to family about what is a lethal dose of morphine. My dad killed his mother that way, a woman he absolutely adored, and sustained him in very trying times, when it was all falling apart in their family, and he and his brother had to go to work in high school to support the family. They were very close.
Oh good the Superdome reference is gone.
We take an oath to do no harm.
Hospital orderly is an archaic term. Hospitals have RN's, LVN's, nurses aides, janitors, transport, etc. but they don't have orderlies. The nationwide Monster job board job board has tens of thousands of health care jobs, but only 2 employers posting that title. So the unnamed source has a job title made up by the writer, which is suspicious for the rest of it being made up as well.
If the source was an orderly, the source is very low level employee, unlikely to understand what was going on. Likewise a title NO "government official" is hardly qualifies as a ringing endorsement. This story has only anonymous sources, and these dubious.
WOW! I'm looking for words!
What I find appauling is that there was no provision for a non mandatory evacuation prior to the mandatory one. Why couldn't buses have been provided beginning 48 hours before the projected land fall for anyone wanting to leave but with no private means of transportation. I think the mayor should have at least had the authority to declare a volunary evacuation and started using the school and transit system buses. Both the city and state had a plan to use transports that they owned to evacuate vulnerable areas. Why didn't they execute those plans.
The real mess is the Daily Mail.
The leftist British tabloids are now into "making it up". The Sun ran a column that had helicopter gunships gunning down "looters" who were stealing diapers and foodstuffs.
No lie too large; no shot too cheap.
Ping. Some got debit cards but some got death.
They won't. No one will ever know their names.
This is accepted practice in extreme situations. Those who can benefit from care, get it. Those who can't are made as comfortable as possible.
Note the vulgar slang for terminating dogs and horses. What idiotic medical school gave this person a medical degree? And WHERE ON EARTH were the rescue helicopters that tax dollars send to FEMA, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, and various other government agencies? Good grief, a doctor could hire a private helicopter with a credit card!
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