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pegkerrDoctors 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?)
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?)
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Date: 2005-09-13 07:56 pm (UTC)A lot of doctors were talking about how they were attempting to treat their patients as best they could, but had no means of testing liver levels or anything else as they medicated them, so it was all by guess and by god(s). Plus, with no power, they couldn't maintain constant (electrically-monitored) drips, and they were running out of meds, so were probably down to the best meds they could use. All that state-of-the-art medicine going suddenly back to the early 20th century -- and doctors aren't really trained for that any more.
Did you see the various articles about the nursing home where 45 dead were found? There, at least, the staff kept on trying to save them (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4240132.stm), but most of the people who died couldn't cope with the 106 degree temps in the hospital.