Euthanasia in New Orleans

Shall we also point out that helicpotors land on the roof of hospitals, not in the front lawn, and that blackhawks were reportedly the main escape vehicle for the patients of hospotals in the area? I refer to this thread:

Read up.
 
The Guardian, not noted for positive news of the U.S. has THIS
on its web site. Also, I noted that while most of the other anecdotes in the story had identified sources, the euthanasia anecdote did not.

IIRichard
 
This topic surfaced again in this week's Sunday papers - not Scotland on Sunday this time, which had no further mention of the matter, but I think the Mail on Sunday.

It wasn't the same actual story - this time is was a number of patients who were terminally ill and close to death anyway, and impossible to evacuate from a hospital which had lost power and which was under attack by looters looking for drugs. There was a lot more detail this time, which made the story more believable - the decisions were taken by doctors, for example, and the method of euthanasia was intravenous overdose of morphine (probably diamorphine/heroin, if the story is true).

Has anyone else heard anything about this?

Rolfe.
 
At least the Mail on Sunday article mentions the name of a nurse (could still be made up, I guess), but it has more of a ring of truth than the first article. Euthanising terminal cancer patients is a far cry from euthanising a guy because he's too fat to get downstairs.
 
Lisa Simpson said:
At least the Mail on Sunday article mentions the name of a nurse (could still be made up, I guess), but it has more of a ring of truth than the first article. Euthanising terminal cancer patients is a far cry from euthanising a guy because he's too fat to get downstairs.
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True, but I still haven't seen that story anywhere here in the US. That makes me very suspicious.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Here's another story on this.
We had to kill our patients
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The only name mentioned in the article is one emergency official, "William 'Forest' McQueen".

Searching for him, I find that a man with the same name is one of the missing UK citizens after the hurricane, but according to his family "part of his job there is to maintain the grounds of an old plantation house".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4220656.stm

And that's about it. No other references to "emergency official William 'Forest' McQueen". I'm atheistic on this one.
 
peptoabysmal said:
Here's another story on this.
We had to kill our patients
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That was, in fact, the exact article I was referring to in my post above. (I read it on the news stand in the shop, and didn't know where or if I could find it on the Internet.) So, it isn't another one, so far we seem only to have the Scotland on Sunday one last week, and the Mail on Sunday this week. No US sources.

Oh, click on the "view comments" link on the MoS article for some really saccharine stuff. Nobody seems to doubt the story at all.

Rolfe.
 
BPSCG said:
Maybe it was mass murder...
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"These patients were not abandoned," Goodson said. He said they had died before the evacuation. A spokesman for Tenent Healthcare Corp., which owns the hospital, told the AP that some of the people found Sunday had died before the storm, and the others died before the evacuation, which other officials said was done by boats. Many of the patients were in long-term acute care for people with serious ailments, he said.
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I heard one of the doctors interviewed on TV. He described staff and even some family members heroically trying to fan patients by hand. There was no power and the temperature in the hospital rose to 106. He said there was no lack of care.

They seemed like victims of their predicament. Bad health and hot, humid conditions.
 
As the gunshots of unrestrained marauding looters rang out in the distance, according to a tearful, frightened, shaken, weary, and respected hospital employee squinting into the sun over a floodplain that was once shady lanes of Southern charm, Karl Rove was seen wandering Bourbon Street munching on the heads of live babies and drinking urine straight from the tap of local prostitutes in exchange for a helicopter ride to Houston.
 
The owners of a nursing home have been charged in the deaths of the 34 elderly patients in their care. The article also mentions the deaths at Memorial Medical Center. Still, no other accounts of euthanasia.

http://tinyurl.com/8psva
 
Lisa Simpson said:
The owners of a nursing home have been charged in the deaths of the 34 elderly patients in their care. The article also mentions the deaths at Memorial Medical Center. Still, no other accounts of euthanasia.

http://tinyurl.com/8psva
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From your link:

Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti charged the husband-and-wife owners of St. Rita's with 34 counts of negligent homicide for not doing more to save their elderly patients.
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Couldn't a lot of officials be charged with the same?
 
Bjorn said:


Couldn't a lot of officials be charged with the same?
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Ah, but that's the gubbmint.

I wouldn't be surprised to see many wrongful death lawsuits arising from this.
 
So I got this phone call, see, from the President on Line 1. "Lukester," he says (that's his pet name for me), "I need you to go down to the New Orleans refinery and open up all those spigots and valves and stuff. Atta boy!"
 
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