euthanasia at hospitals during Katrina

He also dismissed the convictions of five police officers who were prosecuted for killing unarmed African-American civilians in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and then staging a cover-up. The Senate should carefully consider whether Judge Engelhardt should be elevated to the Fifth Circuit, where his rulings ...

Awareness of the plight of animals in the path of a devastating storms has greatly improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when an estimated 250,000 dogs and cats were displaced or died as a result of the storm, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Many people in ...

Nurses Jennifer Sanchez, left, and Thau Lam brush their teeth over the side of the helipad at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The nurses were two of about 70 hospital staff members waiting to be evacuated in the wake of the historic storm. (AP Photo/The ...

When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Memorial hospital was left in chaos: stifling, stinking of sewage, without power or running water. .... with a friend who was recovering from pneumonia and too weak to comply with the mayor's mandatory evacuation order for the city, which had exempted hospitals.

In the late summer of 2005, the waters loosed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans. At Memorial Medical Center, the ... After several days of desperation, some allegedly euthanized critically ill patients, even as large-scale evacuations of the hospital began. The journalist and doctor ...

Administrators had long-standing plans to manage hurricanes, flooding, loss of electricity and evacuations, but they weren't prepared to deal with them all at once, which is what the hospital faced during Katrina. The staff had to decide who to save, and in a new book, Five Days at Memorial, writer and ...

If we didn't experience Hurricane Katrina ourselves, we saw it: the ominous red pinwheel on the radar, the wrecked Superdome, the corpses. And certainly we saw our shame — America's inequality, negligence and violence were all laid bare by the storm. But one tragedy went largely unwitnessed. And this ...

CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and triggered flooding in New Orleans two years ago. advertisement. Patients, staff and their families rode out Katrina. But four days after the hurricane hit, despair was setting in. The hospital was ...

A third of our hospitals filled up by people who don't even know they're there? She'd soon put a stop to that. “It's ridiculous to be living in a country where we can put dogs to sleep but not people.” Her solution? “Easy. Euthanasia vans – just like ice-cream vans – that would come to your home.” After they'd finished in the ...

“We all saw what followed Hurricane Katrina, where people weren't allowed to keep their pets with them, so they said, 'Well, never mind, we'll just stay outside,' “ Harris County Judge Ed Emmett told reporters Sunday evening. “We obviously don't want that to happen.” Emmett wasn't making just a passing ...

Awareness of the plight of animals in the path of a devastating storms has greatly improved since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when an estimated 250,000 dogs and cats were displaced or died as a result of the storm, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Many people in ...

Nurses Jennifer Sanchez, left, and Thau Lam brush their teeth over the side of the helipad at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in the wake of 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The nurses were two of about 70 hospital staff members waiting to be evacuated in the wake of the historic storm. (AP Photo/The ...

Nurse Mary Jo D'Amico fans a patient awaiting evacuation in the Memorial hospital car park after hurricane Katrina. .... at Memorial on Sunday, with a friend who was recovering from pneumonia and too weak to comply with the mayor's mandatory evacuation order for the city, which had exempted hospitals.

In the late summer of 2005, the waters loosed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina laid siege to New Orleans. At Memorial Medical Center, the ... After several days of desperation, some allegedly euthanized critically ill patients, even as large-scale evacuations of the hospital began. The journalist and doctor ...

Administrators had long-standing plans to manage hurricanes, flooding, loss of electricity and evacuations, but they weren't prepared to deal with them all at once, which is what the hospital faced during Katrina. The staff had to decide who to save, and in a new book, Five Days at Memorial, writer and ...

If we didn't experience Hurricane Katrina ourselves, we saw it: the ominous red pinwheel on the radar, the wrecked Superdome, the corpses. And certainly we saw our shame — America's inequality, negligence and violence were all laid bare by the storm. But one tragedy went largely unwitnessed. And this ...

CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and triggered flooding in New Orleans two years ago. advertisement. Patients, staff and their families rode out Katrina. But four days after the hurricane hit, despair was setting in. The hospital was ...

... eight months ago. Now he's seriously ill in a Moscow hospital. ... Some of the worst damage was in the New Orleans area, including some neighborhoods hit hard by Hurricane Katrina. ... Dog food recalled over possible contamination with euthanasia drug.

Eric Schmitt-Matze, who does about 80 events each year, was asked a few weeks ago to visit the dying boy in a Tennessee hospital. He gave the five-year-old ... Smith was a defensive leader on the Saints team that lifted spirits in New Orleans after ...

Smith was a defensive leader on the Saints team that lifted spirits in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005. He helped carry the team ... northeast of Little Rock. Detective Andrew Turner tells Jonesboro television station KAIT the boy was ...

Working with the ASPCA, which oversaw rescue operations through its Field Investigations and Response Team, and with volunteers from SMART, more than 20 animals needing critical care were brought to Tufts Hospital for Large Animals. Four of the ...

The Golden Retriever, who was suffering badly in recent months due to the effects of old age, was euthanized at Fairfield Animal Hospital in Cypress, Texas. Over a dozen ... After spending ten days assisting in the search & rescue efforts at Ground ...

It was a gentle end to a remarkable life, which saw Bretagne (pronounced "Brettany") deployed to a number of disaster zones throughout her career as a search-and-rescue dog, including Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, before going on to work with her local ...

"Animals and science were always something that interested me as a very small child," says Watson, also a faculty member at Penn Vet's Ryan Hospital. ... past 10 years, Watson says there has been a transformation in the sheltering community in the city ...

Since then, the organization has won two Pulitzer Prizes: the first in 2010 for Investigative Reporting with The New York Times Magazine for exposing the use of euthanasia at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina subsided, and again the ...

Since then, the organization has won two Pulitzer Prizes: the first in 2010 for Investigative Reporting with The New York Times Magazine for exposing the use of euthanasia at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina subsided, and again the ...

She likes the no-kill aspect of it, because she doesn't like anything to be killed or euthanized, and she wanted to show her support.