re: Why do Slidell folks look so much worse than the rest of the Northshore

Was Dr. Talbot still practicing, or had he lost his medical license by that point? A majority of customers at my fathers pharmacies by Slidell Memorial were pain management patients shopping around for the cheapest attic cocktail. He wrote at least 100 a day between 7 AM and lunch. Of those customers, the majority were not from Louisiana.
It was insane.


I remember joking with my dad one day about how awesome it would be to have to knock off at lunch every day because you had to go home and count money. He said, “ Son, he has three other clinics in New Orleans, Metairie, and on the Westbank. He leaves and does the second half of the day at one of the other three.”
Conservatively, it was 200 of those scripts a day being filled from his appointments at each clinic across the metro area, Monday through Friday. And that’s just one former army doctor with a $500/month strip mall office rental in four different locations. Boggles my mind thinking about the whole thing.

Point is to say that a majority of customers at his pharmacies were from Pearlington, Kiln, Waveland, and the occasional Alabama, or Florida rando.

I’m probably not in the majority here, but even though I grew up in New Orleans and only drove through Slidell on 10 East, Katrina made it better. People who had damage had money. The water stopped before it got close to neighborhoods near I 12 that would’ve had a harder time rebuilding. I might be wrong about all that, but that was my impression.