Comments on: Katrina Doctors Faced Deadly Choices

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 03:00:07 +0000

So would o-blah-blah fall into the hopeless/helpless group? Beyond help? :-)

By: proreason

proreason — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:34:31 +0000

The article appeared in the New York Slimes.

It has no credibility whatsoever.

It might be true, but long experience indicates the truth is likely to be far different from the words on the paper.

By: 12 Gauge Rage

12 Gauge Rage — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:28:43 +0000

Are they doing this sort of reverse triage mentality in our emergency rooms now? I was always taught as an EMT that the worst cases had priority.

By: canary

canary — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:22:15 +0000

Caligirl, do you mean that they are doing this in civilian disastors now, or they are not just doing it in military now. I figured most just ignore it and help the worst wounded first anyways.

By: DougHI

DougHI — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:13:05 +0000

Comments link on cigarette post does not work.

House of Sweetness and Spite

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08......html?8dpc – House of Sweetness and Spite

By: caligirl9

caligirl9 — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:10:49 +0000

It’s what’s taught in mass casualty triage—you have to make a decision based upon manpower and what resources you have available. You put the walking wounded one place, the salvageable another, and the moribund … where they lie.
It’s a numeric system that can be taught to lay people, so there is no objectivity. It was very hard for me to accept, but it’s the “emergency services” industry standard right now.

By: canary

canary — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:08:42 +0000

As a former medic in the military, this protocol of treating the least injured first, and leaving the worst injured last, has been trying to be pushed way before Katrina. Under the guise of getting the least injured back on the front line as soon as possible, excuse. But, I figured that the real reason is they don’t want to pay for soldier’s artificial body parts. The way they treated my dad, well, he lived a better life, and made this a better world, and done more things than most have done in their life times.
Ya know, what’s really pathetic, is how Obama gives an entire page, to a bump on his head, and then a cut on his arm. I think what a big baby. I think most white people have had it harder than that cry-baby, poor me,
egotistical cold hearted possibly from another planet glob of blob.

By: pdsand

pdsand — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:01:59 +0000

First do no harm?

I think the fact that more people died in her hospital than in any other means that she is the least qualified to speak on these issues, right?

“How, if at all, should doctors and nurses be held accountable for their actions in the most desperate of circumstances, especially when their government fails them?”

I think the fact that the article even mentions these people were killed after the evacuation started means that their government did not fail them, but quite the opposite.

By: 12 Gauge Rage

12 Gauge Rage — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:52:58 +0000

Nobody should be above the law like this woman. What she and her colleagues did was pure evil. And she has no remorse for her actions. This is why a lot of us don’t want Obama care. Should a cabal of powerful doctors get to decide who lives and dies without any input from the patients or their families?

When I get older I’d rather be the one who decides how I’ll go and when. Let me spend my final moments in a quiet place in the country. Not strapped to a hospital gurney with an expressionless doctor looking into my face and a needle in his hand, telling me to lie still and it’ll be over quickly.

By: ilzito guacamolito

ilzito guacamolito — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:33:32 +0000

I am sick of the distortion of the term ‘death panels’ by libs since Sarah Palin used it. She chose such an extreme term to draw attention to the inevitable health care rationing should ObamaCare come to pass. When DC bureacrats are the ones determining who gets care because the well is running dry, someone will have to do without.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:31:46 +0000

Boo frickin’ Hoo!!
The people want their pound of flesh and the liberals are gonna make damn sure they get it. Even if it is your flesh they serve up.
“Never let a good disaster go by without seeing the $$$$ flash before your eyes!!”