About three days...
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Watched the first episode and a half this AM.
Well done. It's been 7+ years since I read the book, so a lot of memories have faded.
Episode 2 starts on Day 2. Katrina has passed, and everyone's feeling kind of good. They survived the storm, mostly intact, and the sun is out. People sitting on the ramp to the ER, having a smoke. Rumors of gang rapes in the area, some looting going on...
But only 18 inches of water. Basement generator gonna be OK unless they get four feet. Well...
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One episode to go, next Friday.
The first 5 episodes are all about the horrors that occurred - no power, no water, no evacuation plan, etc.
The final 3 are the "reckoning," in which the deaths of 45 people are investigated. At least 7 were found to have morphine and midazolam (Versed) in their system. Several of the staff say that they saw Dr. Pou inject patients with the drugs, and the patients shortly died afterward. The penultimate episode ends with Pou getting arrested for murder.
As I'm watching this, I'm thinking, "What would YOU do?"
Many of these patients are simply not transportable. They are too large (one guy, a paraplegic is 350 lb), too sick to carry up (or down) seven flights of stairs. There's no power to keep ventilators going. They simply are NOT GOING TO GET OUT.
The staff has been given orders by the government to evacuate by 7PM.
What do you do with these hapless souls? Let them die, alone, in an abandoned, flooded, overheated hospital?
What is the alternative?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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One episode to go, next Friday.
The first 5 episodes are all about the horrors that occurred - no power, no water, no evacuation plan, etc.
The final 3 are the "reckoning," in which the deaths of 45 people are investigated. At least 7 were found to have morphine and midazolam (Versed) in their system. Several of the staff say that they saw Dr. Pou inject patients with the drugs, and the patients shortly died afterward. The penultimate episode ends with Pou getting arrested for murder.
As I'm watching this, I'm thinking, "What would YOU do?"
Many of these patients are simply not transportable. They are too large (one guy, a paraplegic is 350 lb), too sick to carry up (or down) seven flights of stairs. There's no power to keep ventilators going. They simply are NOT GOING TO GET OUT.
The staff has been given orders by the government to evacuate by 7PM.
What do you do with these hapless souls? Let them die, alone, in an abandoned, flooded, overheated hospital?
What is the alternative?
@George-K said in About three days...:
One episode to go, next Friday.
The first 5 episodes are all about the horrors that occurred - no power, no water, no evacuation plan, etc.
The final 3 are the "reckoning," in which the deaths of 45 people are investigated. At least 7 were found to have morphine and midazolam (Versed) in their system. Several of the staff say that they saw Dr. Pou inject patients with the drugs, and the patients shortly died afterward. The penultimate episode ends with Pou getting arrested for murder.
As I'm watching this, I'm thinking, "What would YOU do?"
Many of these patients are simply not transportable. They are too large (one guy, a paraplegic is 350 lb), too sick to carry up (or down) seven flights of stairs. There's no power to keep ventilators going. They simply are NOT GOING TO GET OUT.
The staff has been given orders by the government to evacuate by 7PM.
What do you do with these hapless souls? Let them die, alone, in an abandoned, flooded, overheated hospital?
What is the alternative?
There are worse things than a peaceful, painless death. To charge with murder in this situation is a miscarriage of justice.
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Maybe there is a silver lining in all this. From another article:
https://thecinemaholic.com/dr-anna-pou-now/
"In 2009, a resolution was passed wherein the State of Louisiana agreed to pay Pou’s legal fees of over $450,000 after the jury’s decision to not indict the doctor. In the years that followed, Pou played an integral part in writing and passing three laws in Louisiana that provide immunity to health care professionals from most civil lawsuits, except cases of willful misconduct, for their work in future disasters that range from hurricanes to pandemic influenza.
Pou has also become a distinguished speaker in the medical field, prominently talking about the role of medical professionals during disasters and ethical considerations of physicians during disasters among many more subjects. "
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Believe it or not, I found the miniseries to be a bit more balanced than the book. Admittedly, it's been 5-6 years since I read the book, but I walked away with the feeling that something, anything, could and should have been done in those last days.
The miniseries does a good job of showing that there were no good choices. Only "less bad" choices. For those that didn't know, the building actually housed two hospitals within its walls, and there was a fair amount of politics and jockeying between the two.
Very disturbing on many levels.
Farmiga was excellent, by the way.
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Whoever decided that putting the generators in the basement in NOLA should be pilloried.
Reminds me of a hospital I knew that was installing a mainframe computer. They were told that it needed a raised floor, which pretty much everyone knows is for running cables underneath.
When the installers came back the IT director had had 8" of cement poured on top of the existing floor. True story.
