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pegkerr ([personal profile] pegkerr) wrote2005-09-13 02:18 pm
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Report: Doctors killed patients in New Orleans

Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals.

Is this a reputable news source? Has anyone read anything about this in U.S./other authoritative coverage?

Because I gotta believe, if this is true, that this is going to be a big deal for the "compassionate conservative" pro-life right wing, the ones who rode into town to make Terri Schiavo's last days such a circus.

This is huge. This has got to shock even Bush supporters. Unless the Bushwackers find some way to pin this on the liberals (perhaps they'll try to spin it that the doctor was one of those cowardly left wing "culture-of-death" types? Or spin it that if the doctor had believed in the right to bear arms like a true red-blooded American should, she would have stayed at the hospital to defend her patients at gunpoint, instead of fleeing to save her own "cowardly" neck?)

[identity profile] pixelfish.livejournal.com 2005-09-14 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
I saw a different account of the same story in another British paper. The story concerned one nurse having to euthanise an overweight man they couldn't evacuate. I was shocked, but not sure to give it credence at the time. So the jury is still out.