3 arrested in New Orleans hospital deaths, page 1

Ok, I've been thinking about how to respond to this fairly. Unfortunately, the legalities prevent me from saying that it is ok according to the law. However, this is something that I feel should be brought as high as the State Supreme Court to decide upon. I don't know how I feel about this being a law allowing it, because I find it unacceptable to allow these situations to occur again.

It's hard to explain, and I don't want to sound elitist, as if I know better than anyone else. That is not my intention. It just takes some understanding of the situation that was being faced. As far as I can see when I pass by, there was about 6-ish feet of water around the area of the building. So we can pretty much assume that the downstairs would not have been easily utilized as an exit. However, there was an upstairs for an airlift.

Now let's go to helicopter rescues as far as hospitals were concerned. Another hospital had a large group of heroes in their midst (the doctors of Tulane Hospital). Directly across the street was Charity Hospital. This is where a problem occurred. If it wasn't for the doctors of Tulane refusing to board the helicopters, the patients remaining from Charity (the lesser affluent of the two), would not have been boarded because the helicopters weren't going to come back for them.

Operating under this, Memorial Hospital (another less affluent hospital) was more than likely not recieving as much attention either. How long before helicopters fly over again and again without helping you does it take before you give up hope? How long before you decide that the patients in that hospital were going to die suffering as much as those that died in the Superdome and Convention Center from lack of medical care? Remember no generators, no exit. No hope. Do you think these doctors did this with a smile? As if it was a fun thing to do?

I would also like to add that Ms. McManus is quoted as saying that the mother "seemed fine" according to the police. Seemed fine on the outside is absolutely no indication of what may have been going on with this woman. The police officers have no medical training to that extent (they don't, I personally have seen an incident where they didn't even know how to prevent a victim from going into shock until I intervened).

I am sorry for her loss, as well as the losses of others who lost loved ones during those horrific days. However, I wonder how furious they would have been to find out months later that their loved ones died suffering over days and days like others did in the filthy confines of the Superdome and the Convention Center. This situation will hopefully never happen the same way again. Never. I however do believe in the light of everything that occurred this time, the deaths were indeed merciful. I however don't believe that this should be incorporated into our laws because there should be no reason for it in the future if people are prepared as they should be.

With ending this, I am going to admit to the fact that I am not willing to provide media sources for some of the events that I mentioned in my response. They are there if you want to look for them, and have the know how for a search engine, but I am not able to just browse through these stories and add more PTSD to the already existing PTSD. Sorry, I'm just giving my thoughts, I'm not going to put myself back into those days to source what happened as of yet.