LA State DOH Investigating Claims of killings

[Jon]

Louisiana Investigating Claims that Patients May Have Been Killed at Hospital



Updated: 10-13-2005 10:00:36 PM

UPI

The Louisiana attorney general is investigating claims that patients at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans were killed in the days after Hurricane Katrina struck.

One doctor and a nurse-manager told CNN that staff members discussed euthanasia for some patients they thought were likely to die.

"We weren't really functioning as a hospital but as a shelter," Dr. Bryant King said. "We had no electricity. There was no water. It was hot. People are dying. We thought it was as bad as it could get. Why weren't we being evacuated? That was our biggest thing. We should be gone right now."

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Originally posted by MedicStudentJon@Oct 23 2005, 06:39 AM
One doctor and a nurse-manager told CNN that staff members discussed euthanasia for some patients they thought were likely to die.

File charges, aw, isn't that a bit harsh?

They were just playing a little game of GOD.






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[Jon]

I have no sympathy for those nursing home owners who left 50 residents to die.

I have much more sympathy for the docs at Charity and the other hospitals, who made a descision they will have to live with for the rest of their lives. It seems to have been a form of Triage, only taken a little farther... those who were "black-tagged" were helped out the door, so to speak. They didn't really have a chance, and it seems to be a case of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" (Thanks, Spock).

Jon