stories from the drowned city

[rm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30doctors.html

It'll take me weeks to read this article, although I will read it. Katrina remains the only news event that has ever caused me to need to step away from coverage. Four years later that hasn't changed; I can only deal with it in rationed pieces. I am deeply ashamed of this. The news is a civic duty; witnessing is a moral one. And I worked for the AP, and let me tell you, I saw stuff -- a lot of stuff -- that never, ever reached an audience because it was so graphic. But Katrina remains the one story I can't handle.

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[cozzene.livejournal.com]

Miep and I were just talking about New Orleans today and the aftermath and the shame of those dikes not being rebuilt, yet. I still remember an article I came across about the hospital that never got evacuated because its name changed and emergency services basically didn't know it was there. It was written by one of the doctors who had to watch as they just all died around her. If I remember right she and another physician were accused of euthanasia when the news broke. I never heard what happened after that. It still chokes me to imagine all that catastrophe and no help.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The linked article is about the euthanasia accusations.

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

ty...I didn't get that far.

[cozzene.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is the doctor/hospital I was referring to. I can't even finish reading it...all too horrible, still.