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re: 5 Days at Memorial Dr. Anna Pou
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:18 pm to thadcastle
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:18 pm to thadcastle
I think for TV they honed in on Pou to make it play better (big bad wolf), but it seems like it was a group decision with a lot of different views and gray area. Some involved viewed it as “comfort care”, some as “hastening death”.
There was a lot of fear and unknowns about safety and when help was coming. The real question should be asked is about this “deadline” allegedly given to the hospital by police to evacuate. Not sure if that was an accurate or “made for tv” thing, but that’s just cold.
There was a lot of fear and unknowns about safety and when help was coming. The real question should be asked is about this “deadline” allegedly given to the hospital by police to evacuate. Not sure if that was an accurate or “made for tv” thing, but that’s just cold.
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Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:20 pm to thadcastle
I don’t know. My next door neighbor at the time was one of the head shift nurses in the Baptist ICU. We evacuated and she and her husband stayed. I left the extra set of keys to my vehicle left behind and to my house.
We lived less than a mile walk from Baptist. 12 hours after the storm passed we got a call that a tree fell on the pool house and all was good. 6 hours after that call came another. Water was coming. The husband walked to my place and drove my SUV to the hospital and used it to help initial evacuation towards St Charles. The water got too deep and they abandoned the vehicle.
I didn’t see them for two months. They weren’t the same people I knew prior. What they went through is almost inconceivable.
We lived less than a mile walk from Baptist. 12 hours after the storm passed we got a call that a tree fell on the pool house and all was good. 6 hours after that call came another. Water was coming. The husband walked to my place and drove my SUV to the hospital and used it to help initial evacuation towards St Charles. The water got too deep and they abandoned the vehicle.
I didn’t see them for two months. They weren’t the same people I knew prior. What they went through is almost inconceivable.
This post was edited on 9/27/22 at 9:24 pm
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:32 pm to thadcastle
My personal experience with her as my treating physician is that she is amazing. My oncologist recommended her for continued follow up, and she is highly regarded by her peers. The medical community seems to have rallied around her, and for good reason.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:33 pm to thadcastle
Go to hell. You should swing.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:33 pm to thadcastle
No
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:35 pm to thadcastle
Read the book. The state, the feds, the corporation, the city, and the hospital all had a hand in the failure. Their was a fake scenario played out a few weeks before Katrina involving several players. They knew the faults in the system but not what to do. There was nothing in the scenario that involved evacuating an entire hospital.
The emergency manual at Memorial had over 100 pages about what to do in an anthrax attack. It had 11 pages dedicated to a hurricane emergency. The generators had previously been identified as a weakness due to their location, yet nothing was done about it. I believe only two hospitals in the flooded areas remained with generator power.
Foti was just trying for the big score.
The emergency manual at Memorial had over 100 pages about what to do in an anthrax attack. It had 11 pages dedicated to a hurricane emergency. The generators had previously been identified as a weakness due to their location, yet nothing was done about it. I believe only two hospitals in the flooded areas remained with generator power.
Foti was just trying for the big score.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:39 pm to prplhze2000
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Go to hell. You should swing.
Da fuq. I didn’t cast any judgement or give an opinion. I simply asked a question after watching a show, you might need to get some help my man.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 9:42 pm to thadcastle
I dont care if she did. I could never judge her for the situation she was in. She was phucked over by the system, the hospital and much more. Some of the patients were having to be ambu-bagged by hand 24/7 since their ventilators and such were useless with no electricity. The situation and the conditions the staff experienced was just awful.
I would happily have her as my doctor.
I would happily have her as my doctor.
Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:14 pm to GeoSmith
I don’t understand why everyone had to be evacuated by 5:00 that afternoon. Why not keep evacuating until everyone was removed?
Posted on 9/27/22 at 10:29 pm to FriscoTiger
I agree. Who was making that decision, and who was in charge of enforcing that decision? Why weren’t they in front of a grand jury?
Posted on 9/27/22 at 11:14 pm to Klondikekajun
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She is a great doctor abandoned by her employer in an impossible situation.
Not even her employer iirc. She was there as a volunteer to clean up Tenets mess that they abandoned.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 12:19 am to Boston911
Go on
Posted on 9/28/22 at 2:07 am to thadcastle
Know her personally and did training under her. She’s the most compassionate woman I’ve ever met. She gives her patients her personal cell. She wouldn’t do anything illegal or unethical, under any circumstances (and her moral compass is far superior to my own). I would send any family member or close personal friend to her without hesitation.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:13 am to REG861
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Not even her employer iirc. She was there as a volunteer to clean up Tenets mess that they abandoned.
The showed made it seem like she was an employee.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:15 am to kenna bra
There’s no doubt in my mind that she put the patients to sleep. I think it was the right move.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:18 am to thadcastle
They should have held the trial in the exact same conditions Dr. Pou was under.
Lock everyone in the building, turn off all ac, running water, sewers backing up, etc,etc
Lock everyone in the building, turn off all ac, running water, sewers backing up, etc,etc
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:28 am to kenna bra
Couldn’t agree more and a big reason why we chose her for a delicate time in our life when the “c -word” was a distinct possibility. She came highly recommended by every oncologist, ent and general surgeon we talked to and I’d echo the sentiment we heard.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:35 am to thadcastle
she gave them enough drugs to die comfortably. the DA didn't charge because people in new orleans who were here during katrina are the only ones who know how alone the city was. people had to make choices in the best interests of hundreds or thousands instead of just 5-10 people.
foti was a dumbass who wanted to make a splash for reelection and decided to use katrina as a prop. government failed the city, but yeah, let's blame the private citizen who saved hundreds of patients and hospital staff because she let the elderly and obese patients die comfortably in the worst of circumstances.
everyone who came in after the fact and pretended to know what should have been done were ignorant. hindsight is 20/20, but when you're in the moment, decisions have to be made that you would not think of making otherwise. if I was one of those patients, I wouldn't have wanted to die of hunger, thirst, heat exhaustion, etc etc in an abandoned hospital.
foti was a dumbass who wanted to make a splash for reelection and decided to use katrina as a prop. government failed the city, but yeah, let's blame the private citizen who saved hundreds of patients and hospital staff because she let the elderly and obese patients die comfortably in the worst of circumstances.
everyone who came in after the fact and pretended to know what should have been done were ignorant. hindsight is 20/20, but when you're in the moment, decisions have to be made that you would not think of making otherwise. if I was one of those patients, I wouldn't have wanted to die of hunger, thirst, heat exhaustion, etc etc in an abandoned hospital.
Posted on 9/28/22 at 8:37 am to Meauxjeaux
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They should have held the trial in the exact same conditions Dr. Pou was under.
There was no trial.. the grand jury refused to indict
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