[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 !

[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.

[Mike Darancette]

OK Drudge here is your Siren for tonight.

[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

[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.

[kcvl]

PURE BS!!!

[Thebaddog]

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

[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.

[ol' hoghead]

the appalling failure of American local and state authorities

[selucreh]

This IS a joke, eh? Especially coming from the Limeys. Good Grief!

[JoJo Gunn]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482464/posts

[RegulatorCountry]

Well, well. Is this an attempt at making euthanasia more palatable, or is it an attempt to blunt criticism of the death toll in those bungled Nagin hellholes?

And how on earth does a "utility manager" end up involved in the medical end of emergency response, anyhow?

[DouglasKC]

""It came down to giving people the basic human right to die with dignity. "

When did it became a "basic human right" to die with dignity...and how does being killed by a drug overdose qualify? Do car crash victims die with dignity?

[PAR35]

Might or might not be true, but there is a decided dearth of facts in this story. No hospitals named, the only person quoted by name is a guy would wouldn't have first hand knowledge of what was going on in the city.

Anyone who would reach a conclusion based upon this piece of writing has no sense of discernment.

[Daralundy]

This is a British Paper. How do they know this when nobody in North America does?

[mtbopfuyn]

If only hino Schiavo had lived in NO, no telling how much of Terri's money Katrina could have saved him, Felos, and Greer.

I don't believe a word of that story.