Monday, July 24, 2006

Suddenly, Foti cares about medical neglect

When Charles Foti was criminal sheriff of Orleans Parish Prison, there were multiple cases of medical neglect of prisoners. Some of them died. That is one reason I did not want him to be elected Attorney General of Louisiana, but he was. Now he is bringing a case of not just medical neglect, but murder, against a doctor and two nurses who treated patients in a hospital during Hurricane Katrina.

Foti maintains that the medical team gave lethal injections of Morphine and Verset to four patients at Memorial Hospital. They deny that they did, but a lot of New Orleanians, including medical personnel, are defending them, even if they did inject the doses. This defense is based on both the characters and reputations of the doctor and nurses, and on the extraordinary and horrific circumstances under which they had to work.

The entire situation is unpleasant, but the irony of Foti's zeal about medical neglect is really burning me up.

6 Comments:

I can only imagaine how hard it would be to make a decision to abandon terminally ill patients and I'm assuming that was what the nurses and doctor were about to face. What do you do, leave them there with no one to administer their comfort meds, or do you do the humane thing and give them one more dose of comfort? There were only so many hands to care for so many patients and you have to triage those situations just like in ER, this one that one this one and so on and the that ones, well, they can't be left without comfort and I'm not sure I could leave a dying man or woman behind with the water rising and the temperatures rising and knowing that rats and so forth, well, I just couldn't leave them and I'm not so sure I would not have used the morphine and vesed too. If it were my family member and they were not getting out and were dying and were sufferering and someone did the right thing, well, it's for sure that I would not be taking them to court.

By Blogger zelda1, at 6:53 AM  

Actually, it was even more complicated than that. The doctor and nurses could not abandon them because the doctor and nurses could not leave, either. No one came to their rescue. Finally...someone did. The issue, for some people, is "did they administer the doses because they knew the patients could not survive either the continued horror or any evacuation that might occur?

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