Posted on 09/12/2005 7:59:36 PM PDT by Love_For_Freedom
DOCTORS working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated.
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.
One New Orleans doctor told how she "prayed for God to have mercy on her soul" after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save.
Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by a hospital orderly and by local government officials.
One emergency official, William Forest McQueen, said: "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."
Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana and the doctors spoke only on condition on anonymity.
would you have prefered they drown or die a painful death with out a resporator or other equipment that was unable to be used.. I don't care for the fact that it happened..but I think considering the alternative it was the most humane thing to do .
Yet another "my adventures among the fuzzy wuzzies" story.
Is this for real? Horrific. I'm not making a judgment, but the circumstances were simply horrific.
What if some would have lived?
For the uninitiated... this is a classic example of "how an urban legend gets started".
OMG---
Please don't tell me THIS will be blamed on Bush also..
I am sorry if I thought of that first, but I really don't know what to say about this.
I guess I would have to know more information...but it just sounds so wrong!
Real big whiff.
Hmmmmm.
I hope you are right!!!
To ZOT or not to ZOT, that is the question.
Autopsies anyone?
Why is this Dr going public with this?
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Why would you post ; admn moderatoranything from that bag of crap web-site?
And I hear black people were eating corpses to survive!
Blame Bush?
Why were these people still in the hospital?
They may have lost some of the ventilator patients. There is only so long someone can stand at the bedside and have one person bag continuously.
It's like ordering 25,000 body bags and the official body count is up to just under 200.
It's all hyperbole.
Also "just signed up" to post from a site that no one has ever heard of..This is not a reputable news source.
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