Katrina Coverage

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans' two public hospitals will have to be condemned, according to Don Smithburg, who runs the state's public hospital system.
That decision will prevent the reopening of the city's only trauma units capable of handling the most serious car accidents, gunshot wounds or construction mishaps that any city is bound to have.
Charity […]

Hopefully the following incident will generate at least a lawsuit. Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter and another doctor flew in to LA with medical supplies and made his way to Louis Armstrong International Airport, where he was asked to look after patients on the tarmac:
In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several […]

From this:
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast.
That order - to restart two power substations in Collins that serve Colonial Pipeline Co. - delayed efforts by at least 24 hours to restore power […]

Just great. The cheerily-titled report from the Daily Telegraph "Patients put down" appears to be fairly trustworthy since it provides the full names of a couple people involved:
With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they […]