Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims

[valerief]

In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"I begged him to let me continue," said Perlmutter, who left his home and practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Pennsylvania to come to Louisiana and volunteer to care for hurricane victims. "People were dying, and I was the only doctor on the tarmac (at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport) where scores of nonresponsive patients lay on stretchers. Two patients died in front of me.

"I showed him (the U.S. Coast Guard official in charge) my medical credentials. I had tried to get through to FEMA for 12 hours the day before and finally gave up. I asked him to let me stay until I was replaced by another doctor, but he refused. He said he was afraid of being sued. I informed him about the Good Samaritan laws and asked him if he was willing to let people die so the government wouldn't be sued, but he would not back down. I had to leave."

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/091605/new_doctorordered001.shtml

[acmavm]

1. There are certainly people connected with FEMA who should be facing

if not criminal charges, very heavy duty civil lawsuits. That is, in a just a fair country.

Just because the mean spirited, the selfish, the evil, and the ignorant were and still are in charge does not mean that these people should not be made to pay in some fashion. I really don't feel like waiting around for the afterlife or Karma thing, I want to see tangible results NOW or in the very near future.

[flordehinojos]

2. jackbooted bush thugs!

it is incomprehensible how people are not able to see the degree of psychological disintegration with which this bush boy is running this country... and when people tell horror stories such as happened to Dr. Perlmutter, most people are inclined to disbelieve it because we are "the greatest country in the worl"! wow! what a laugh in the face of ignorance.

[genius]

3. kick