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The 'santorum euthenasia freakout' lie is about as bad as it gets. So is the 'death panels freakout' lie.
I think its high time the republicans stop using parody news sources for their understanding of the world
wnd is not news, its noise..its batboy and lobstergirl but for politics (arguably less credible than the examiner come to think of it).
I did a search on the internet and it does not appear to even exist.
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A doctor has admitted that he gave orders for a lethal dose of medication to be administered to a patient under his care during the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005 - a decision that he says he does not regret having made.
Dr. Ewing Cook said that as staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans were struggling to evacuate patients from the flooded building, he gave the order to give Jannie Burgess, 79, who was dying of uterine cancer and kidney failure, a dose of morphine that he knew would kill her.
"Do you mind just increasing the morphine and giving her enough until she goes?" Cook said he asked the patient's nurse, and then wrote "Pronounced dead at" on the patient's chart and left it blank to be filled in later.
"If you don't think that by giving a person a lot of morphine you're not prematurely sending them to their grave, then you're a very naëve doctor," Cook said.
Dr. Anna Pou, a surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who had admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, were offered immunity from prosecution by Attorney General Foti, before testifying to a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Foti called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.
However, court documents asserted that witnesses had testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. Thirty-four patients died in Memorial Medical Center following the Katrina disaster, more than in any comparable-sized hospital in the drowned city.
The ProPublica report cites University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan, who, after reviewing the records of the patients who died and the coroner's report, concluded that nine patients were euthanized, and that the way the drugs were given was "not consistent with the ethical standards of palliative care that prevail in the United States."
Originally posted by Danbones
well, its a nice change from all the vote fraud stories that give him wins in the primaries...
say...
isn't this turkey PRO WAR?
actually he is a eugenecist ..if you commit suicide he can't have the fun of killing your a$$..
..to save you....
from going to heaven, which as a christian he believes is the most blissfull thing in the great all of creation...
Originally posted by lokdog
Santi is a scumbag you have no worries about him becoming president, trust me on this!
Originally posted by v1rtu0s0
Originally posted by lokdog
Santi is a scumbag you have no worries about him becoming president, trust me on this!
You're saying being a scumbag automatically disqaulifies you from being president?
Sir, I beg to differ.edit on 20-2-2012 by v1rtu0s0 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by gwynnhwyfar
Yah that was me thank you very much and I just took note of it happening. Just because you hadn't heard of it doesn't make it untrue. It was a huge story, so you having nursing experience doesn't make you immune to hearing news stories.
So for your sake since you are rebutting me without research, I just found an article about it
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A doctor has admitted that he gave orders for a lethal dose of medication to be administered to a patient under his care during the hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005 - a decision that he says he does not regret having made.
Dr. Ewing Cook said that as staff at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans were struggling to evacuate patients from the flooded building, he gave the order to give Jannie Burgess, 79, who was dying of uterine cancer and kidney failure, a dose of morphine that he knew would kill her.
"Do you mind just increasing the morphine and giving her enough until she goes?" Cook said he asked the patient's nurse, and then wrote "Pronounced dead at" on the patient's chart and left it blank to be filled in later.
"If you don't think that by giving a person a lot of morphine you're not prematurely sending them to their grave, then you're a very naëve doctor," Cook said.
and then there's this
Dr. Anna Pou, a surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who had admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, were offered immunity from prosecution by Attorney General Foti, before testifying to a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Foti called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.
However, court documents asserted that witnesses had testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. Thirty-four patients died in Memorial Medical Center following the Katrina disaster, more than in any comparable-sized hospital in the drowned city.
The ProPublica report cites University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan, who, after reviewing the records of the patients who died and the coroner's report, concluded that nine patients were euthanized, and that the way the drugs were given was "not consistent with the ethical standards of palliative care that prevail in the United States."
www.lifesitenews.com...
another article for backup in case you wanted to make out the first one to be biased unfairly
articles.cnn.com...:US
www.wnd.com...
A thread on it at ATS
www.abovetopsecret.com...
An article in New Orleans about 13 hospitals under investigation
www.northcountrygazette.org...
DNR is not the same thing as administering a lethal dose of morphine and you know that.edit on 20-2-2012 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Anyone with a half a brain will realize what he's saying isn't true.I'm American and even I know what the policy is on that in the netherlands.The guy's an idiot and it's really starting to show the more he talks.
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by gwynnhwyfar
As far as dying in comfort and dignity, that was not the case for Terri Schiavo. All food and water was withdrawn from her and she died a brutal death of dehydration that lasted longer than 7 days.