[upchuck]

Gee that's frustrating. What lousy reporting. The article talks all the way around the problem but never says WHY they can't proceed.

Who stopped these docs and why?

[carolinablonde]

The only thing the article says is "because Louisiana officials for several days would not let them deploy to the flooded city".

I think the La. governor and the NO mayor showed complete incompetence in this entire situation. I saw Gov. Blanco the day after the storm and the woman could hardly even speak coherently. But all of this is Bush's fault!

Another interesting thing I just heard on CNN is that Blanco refused to allow the La. Natl. Guard to be federalized despite strong insistance from Bush. That explains their delay in deployment.