'splain this, Mistah Foti

I can't seem to wrap my brain 'round it. Let me get dis straight:

You're charging a physician and two nurses who stayed in New Orleans during and after Katrina with homicide.

You're charging caregivers who left during and after Katrina in New Orleans with homicide.

5 simple questions:

1) do you expect any good healthcare providers to ever come to Louisiana?
2) do you expect any good healthcare providers to stay in Louisiana?
3) do you expect physicians to be able to maintain insurance in Louisiana?
4) do you expect any medical volunteers to ever come to Louisiana again?
5) why the fuck are you not charging the USACE with homicide?

Hat tip to Garland Robinette.

Update: my post is drivel. Read the comments for meat.

Comments

[Mr. Clio]

If ever the presumption of innocence makes sense, it's now.

We've got to assume the people who were with their patients were the good guys.

In the end, I would like to hear an explanation of why exactly that combination of drugs were found in the patients' tissues. Healthcare is complex. Foti doesn't strike me as having the ability to deal with complexity. Too many DWIs and paint fumes from the prisoners' projects.

[gothgate]

i agree that the physicians & nurses at MMC shouldn't be criminally charged (it should probably be handled through medical & civil channels) there is another issue to consider...

garland was so going on & on about will drs come to or stay in nola now. what i'm worried about is will people evacuate if a loved one is in the hospital at the time of a storm?

people stayed behind in katrina to take care of pets. now they have provisions for evacuating pets with their people.

they're going to have to worry about people not evacuating because of loved ones in care facilities.

i know i won't and neither will my family. if i happen to be in the hospital at the time of a storm, my family will be there with me and not leave short of at cocked gunpoint.

i am a disabled person in a wheelchair and almost 400# with breathing trouble -- i was on the phone on hold to talk yesterday but i think garland's screeners didn't believe me. i know that i am an inconvenient patient and that a non-fat non-disabled person might think i've got nothing to live for. so i don't want some dr or nurse to decide whether i live or die based on their convenience in dealing with me or their interpretation of my condition or their interpretation of my will to survive suffering.

all i know is that if i'm unable to evacuate my family is staying with me so that they can give me care if the drs/nurses won't. and i'm sure lots of other people feel the same way.

[judyb]

Foti needs to be bitchslapped.

[karen boudreaux]

I am trying to get my head around this. No doctor is going to overdose a patient they believe will survive. So this doctor logically believed these patients were going to die and undoubtedly it was going to be painful. No doctor would put their lives and careers on the line otherwise. So why is Foti charging these medical proffesionals with 2nd degree murder considering the unprecedented circumstances these doctors were under. These are educated proffesionals who made the best decisions they could at the time. Foti should be so compassionate

[saintseester]

I hate that these people will have to go through the horror of a trial and be dragged through the mud, even though they will most likely be aquitted. It is not illegal to give drugs like morphine to ease the suffering of hospice patients at the end of their days. I would assume the lawyers will say this is what was done, not lethal doses, but enough to ease the pain of the people who were dying.

[chaussures converse]

i am a disabled person in a wheelchair and almost 400# with breathing trouble -- i was on the phone on hold to talk yesterday but i think garland's screeners didn't believe me. i know that i am an inconvenient patient and that a non-fat non-disabled person might think i've got nothing to live for. so i don't want some dr or nurse to decide whether i live or die based on their convenience in dealing with me or their interpretation of my condition or their interpretation of my will to survive suffering.

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[Edvinas]

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