Posted on 02/22/2006 9:50:09 AM PST by bildabare
National Public Radio now reports on its access to court documents in the case. In a February 16 report, NPR says it has reviewed secret court documents related to the investigation and not yet released to the public. The documents, says NPR "reveal chilling details about events at Memorial hospital in the chaotic days following the storm, including hospital administrators who saw a doctor filling syringes with painkillers and heard plans to give patients lethal doses. The witnesses also heard staff discussing the agonizing decision to end patients' lives."
The allegations revolve around a group of patients left on the seventh floor at Memorial Medical Center. This floor was leased to a different entity, LifeCare Hospitals. According to NPR, the patients on the seventh floor were all DNR patients -- they had "do not resuscitate" orders.
The report describes the deplorable conditions
(Excerpt) Read more at lifesite.net ...
I wondered if this story would ever be followed up on.
According to NPR, the patients on the seventh floor were all DNR patients -- they had "do not resuscitate" orders.
Most “do not resusicitate” orders do not include the rare “kill me if the air conditioning goes out” codicil.
Didn't think it could get any worse in the Chocolate City.
If this is true, it has.
Wasn't this debunked just after Katrina?
Yeah, remind me not to get sick in LA..
"No really, doc- I'm fine!" (swimming out door with IV in arm)
If so, I didn't hear about it. Last I heard there was an ongoing investigation.
Bush's fault.... /sarc
I'd put the odds at 3 to 1 that some in the MSM will make the case that this is entirely Bush's fault.
Wow, this is a high-priority issue. People didn't want to die taking care of almost dead people. Better get a congressional investingation because when I'm in my dementia related coma, I want to be sure that everything theoretically possible is done to save me when a disaster strikes.
Can we get one of those doctors over to San Quentin please?
A DNR Order does not include a request nor permission to be killed or to commit suicide.
I thought I'd heard all possible rationalizations for committing murder at this point but it looks like there's yet another one: "the patients all had DNR Orders".
It's also more emphasis that the overall desperations were already present in areas of N.O. prior to Katrina and the flooding...because flooding and a few day's isolation because of it without electricity (did no health facility there have emergency generators?) somehow prompting "let's kill people" response is preposterous.
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I hope never to spend time in your hospital. I consider it murder.
'(did no health facility there have emergency generators'
On the ground floor and under water!
Ha ha- yeah, I liek the "Chocolate city" reference too. Chocolate- with nuts is more like it.
There was a lady in SO. Calif. who owned this floosy restaurant in one of the beach cities, and every now and again, she'd come out of the back room and say- "It's getting a little dark in here"- which was code to the hostesses to stop taking reservations/seating blacks/hispanics. She got sued royally. I hope Nagin didn't think we don't understand code.
Excuse me..."battlefield"?
What I question is why the conditions in a major city such as N.O. were so immediately and thoroughly (those adjectives used based upon what resulted there and when) reduced to the deplorable under flooding and loss of public power supply.
The point is is that there WAS no "battlefield" and flooding and loss of power supply...dunno, but I'd describe that as an emergency but hardly "battlefield" conditions whereby people "had to be" killed.
If these people were doomed to death without mere power supply -- that'd indicate that an emergency power supply would have been, normally and reasonably, been available especially to any facility with a healthcare license -- then they'd inevitably expire. But to kill them? That seems to suggest that that option was either present prior to the conditional disaster OR someone was all too eager to resort to murder.
I think these doctors merit a stern and objective review as to licensing, AND, so does whoever is issuing healthcare facility licenses in LA.
LifeSiteNews.com reported in September 2005, that an unnamed doctor admitted to a UK newspaper that such activities had taken place at Memorial Medical Center.
In October another doctor at the hospital confirmed in a CNN interview that he suspected such activities and admitted he left the hospital saying he would rather abandon patients than actively kill them. (see coverage)
Later in October hospital workers were subpoenaed for an investigation.
Listen to the full NPR report.
Also see lostbudgie.blogspot.com/.
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