Re: Cannot trust the Government.

But since it was the Governer of Louisiana that would not extend
permission, then obviously it is Bush's fault.

spiritrising wrote:
> quite a few this week lost certification in lousiana, by the governer
> revoking that permission. spiritrising
>
> "sagetea2000@xxxxxxxxx" <sagetea2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1127238543.071495.225010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Here is an example of the total disregard that the government has for
> the american people. If there is an emergency and the government offers
> assistance, You can be assured that I will run the other way.
> **************************************************************************************************************
> 'I could have saved her life but was denied permission'
> By Toby Harnden in New Orlean
> (Filed: 18/09/2005)
>
> Refugees from New Orleans died after private doctors were ordered to
> stop giving treatment because they were not covered by United States
> government medical liability insurance, according to two American
> surgeons.
>
> Mark N Perlmutter, an orthapædic surgeon from Pennsylvania, was told
> by a senior US Coast Guard officer representing the embattled Federal
> Emergency Management Agency (Fema) that he must leave the overstretched
> disaster relief hospital at New Orleans airport.
>
>
> Dr Perlmutter: turned away while helping survivors
> He had applied a chest compression after a female patient died and was
> turning to another critically ill woman at the triage reception area on
> the airport tarmac when he was summoned to see Capt Art French, the
> doctor in charge of the hospital.
>
> "The other lady was in equally bad shape and I was not able to work on
> her. When I went back afterward to get my supplies they were taking her
> body to a store where the deceased were being placed.
>
> "It's absolutely possible I would have saved her life but I was denied
> permission to try." An estimated 20 to 30 patients died at the
> temporary hospital that day.
>
> Dr Perlmutter arrived with Clark Gerhart, a surgeon colleague, and
> Alison Torrens, from Co Antrim, a medical student at Aberdeen
> University. All three had volunteered their services free of charge.
>
> It was five days after Hurricane Katrina had struck but all three were
> struck by the sense of chaos. "It was like something out of a film,"
> said Miss Torrens. "I couldn't believe I was in the middle of America.
> There were people lying on the luggage racks. Every single patient was
> in a pool of urine or had soiled themselves."
>
> The surgeons said that the medical staff there had welcomed their
> arrival and needed trained doctors.
>
> "They were just swamped," said Dr Gerhart. The surgeons, however, were
> told they could not work there without Fema credentials, which could
> not be issued even though they had their medical licences with them.
>
> "[Capt French's] words were, 'We don't have any way to do credentialing
> and no way to ensure tort liability coverage'. How any one could utter
> those words in the middle of a catastrophe I do not know."
>
> Dr Perlmutter said that he begged to be allowed to work until he could
> be relieved by a Fema doctor but was told that this was not possible.
>
> Kim Pease, a Fema spokesman, said: "The volunteer doctor [Dr
> Perlmutter] was not a credentialed Fema physician and, thus, was
> subject to law enforcement rules in a disaster area."
>
> The three were flown back to Baton Rouge in another Black Hawk and were
> then swiftly given credentials by the Louisiana state authorities. They
> spent four days treating hundreds of patients.
>
> The surgeons, who worked at 9/11, were left with a sense of frustration
> that they had been blocked by what seemed to be petty bureaucracy.
>
> "Could we have saved any of those lives?" asked Dr Gerhart. "We'd
> certainly like to have tried."

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