Patients put down

dailytelegraph.news.com ^ | September 12, 2005

[cajungirl]

I agree. Some things you never tell a soul but your God.

[PAR35]

It doesn't matter how many times this gets posted (and this is the third time I've seen it today), none of the stories seem to be able to cite a legitimate first-hand source.

[cajungirl]

I just changed my mind,,,this is BS. Anyone talking about this would not be talking to the press.

I can be fooled some of the time until some Freepr comes along and tells me the truth.

Thanks guys.

[Jorge]

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."

In my last days, if I was suffering with no chance of pulling through, I would THANK GOD for such angels of mercy.

[BruceysMom]

My apolgies, I ment to reply to the original post

[John Robertson]

Then you are my new best friend.

[SAMS]

No kidding. I saw an interview the other night with some Doc, who stayed in the hospital with abondoned DOGS!! for heavens sake, so these medical professionals stuck a needle in some old guys arm??? Pretty big pill to swallow if you ask me..

[Katya]

This is becoming one tall tale...

[John Robertson]

Hey, I was quoting YOU.

Don't come back with the Heavenly Father stuff when you started with "premeditated homicide," which is talk from our earthly realm. What He has to say about such incidents and what the DA has to say derive from two very different worldviews. By the way, we were not speaking of penalties.

I also never said any of these physicians acted out of malice or forethought...but I said I thought they were guilty of murder. It would depend on what a particular DA thought of the issue.

I suppose we could go on and and on, but let's not.

Good reason: I don't feel like fighting.
Another: You seem very, very nice.
Best reason: We would be arguing about something that, the more we look it, the more we all realize, it never happened anyway.

Safe travel, Friend.

[FarmerW]

They might need to talk about it, but does that mean to talk about it to the press? First off, I am going to restate what I have posted before, If not given a name to verify a story don't believe it. Secondly, if it is true pull their licenses. Not for doing it, but for going to the press disregarding the pain that will cause the families and the future patients. I hope the enjoyed the spotlight of the interview.

Dang, I know that sounds cold. I know what it is let to let people die first hand. But when you do so with love you don't go to press about it and make it sound like a horror movie.

[sergeantdave]

Yep, doctors floating around in boats with opiates killing people.

Most definately this goes on in America all the time. Why, the other day I was fishing for pike and a doc floated by and asked if I wanted kill myself. I told him to hush up as he was disturbung my lure and if he didn't get out of the way, I'd drill him with my M-203.

Happens everyday.

[kms61]

As noted on another thread, McQueen, the "emergency official" quoted, lives in Abita Springs, and has been nowhere near New Orleans during the last two weeks. His main qualification seems to be that he has a British wife, who evidently put him in contact with some of these press types. Maybe it did happen, but their main source, this Mcqueen guy, is in no position to know anything about what happened in New Orleans. I'm going to need a lot more corroboration before accepting this at face value.

[Zacs Mom]

"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."

(William) Forest McQueen.

from: British families fear for US relatives

"Mother-of-two Suzanne McQueen, of Maidstone, Kent, is waiting for news of her American husband (William) Forest McQueen.

He has been working in his home country since 1997, and lives and works with his brother in the Abita Springs area, north of Lake Pontchartrain, which is north of New Orleans.

The couple married in the UK in 1991, and Suzanne said she and her daughters - aged 11 and 13 - were planning to move to the US to join her husband as soon as was possible.

Part of his job there is to maintain the grounds of an old plantation house, she said.

"I phoned the morning the hurricane hit, and his brother said Forest hadn't been home for the last 24 hours because he'd been on shift clearing up trees and lines from all the wind damage that came before the hurricane. I haven't heard anything since.

"I've been going through a list of phone numbers for friends and family in the area and can't get through to anyone.

"Up until yesterday or the day before I thought everything would be okay and that they hadn't been in touch because the power was down. But I've since seen more information about the amount of wind destruction there.

"I am getting very concerned. I am trying to contact people from work so the girls don't know how worried I am."

[metmom]

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."


I also like to get info from FR.
I can't claim to be telling the truth on this one but this statement sounds strange. If someone was in that bad shape, they would already be laying down and in a bed at that. Why would they go the the bother of laying them down "in a dark place"? It just doesn't make sense

[Graybeard58]

Not to be rude, but this was stupid when posted the first time and is just down right annoying now.

Thank you.

[Bulwark]

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?

Ever been to a cancer ward? Ever watched a family member die of that awful wasting disease? Morphine is on hand in quantity in any cancer ward as it's the only way to ease the pain of a cancer sufferer.

[LadyNavyVet]

Seeing how this story is not sourced and has all the pro-euthanasia talking points, I smell an agenda here.

[MizSterious]

"...none of the stories seem to be able to cite a legitimate first-hand source."

This is what bothers me most about this particular story. Not that many here will bother to stop and question a story put forth by a guy who's main training seems to be as a gardener and handyman.

[MizSterious]

Oh, what a picture, ZM!

Howlin, you gotta see who this "emergency official" McQueen is--Zac's Mom posted a picture! Oh, yeah, this guy really looks like a trusted source--NOT!

[TexanToTheCore]

I'm not buying into this one. It sounds like total BS.