Posted on 09/11/2005 7:12:16 PM PDT by lauriehelds
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytelegraph.news.com.au ...
Shoulda' took that one to the grave. No need to talk about it.
That's the critical phrase that sets this story apart from "news" and puts it in the "BS" category.
The place was flooded ~ this is just another one of those stories about "my life and times among the fuzzy wuzzies".
How long before the naggin/blanco crowd try to shift the blame for EVERYTHING to the Medical Crews??
I agree. Bad move to make that public.
Shoulda' took that one to the grave. No need to talk about it.
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True. Mercy comes in strange ways...
I would not trade places with these people for all the gold in the world. I pray they can forgive themselves and know the Heavenly Father is a merciful Father. One cannot call what they did premeditated homicide, which is what murder is.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482468/posts
same article from a different source
They probably do need to talk about it though. Having to make decisions like that must be horrifying. (Though I susspect it's done in war triage all the time). More appropriate venue might be in the privacy of a psychiatrist's office.
The liberal press does't care about facts. This story lacks all collaboration, based totally upon anonymous sources "protected from prosecution". It's booshwah until further notice.
Disregard and carry on.
Not rude, just a good observation.
Any doctor who ended a life because he or she thought that maybe they wouldn't make it because of harsh conditions, or because or rampaging criminals...committed murder, in my book. I'm also betting they were liberals.
I'm also betting they wouldn't have the cajones to defend themselves if some of those marauders showed up. What would they do then, kill THEMSELVES, because they might not be able "to make it"?
Second time I've seen this article and I still don't buy it. The pharmacy was all locked up. So where did the morphine come from? Docs just walk around with powerful opiates in their pockets that the druggies want? Something just doesn't sit right with this.
I frankly don't believe it. Sounds more like the starving eating their own story...
The place was flooded. Not easy to get in or out of. Rapists and killers on boats?
"One cannot call what they did premeditated homicide, which is what murder is."
Not all homicides are premeditated.
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