The novel Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink gives an inside view of what happened at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina (2005); a disaster inside of a disaster. The lack of preparedness or ethical decision making is quite disappointing, considering Memorial hospital is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans is well below sea level, and experiences frequent hurricanes and flooding. Memorial hospital itself had little to no plan for evacuating patients once the storm hit. Without power, many of the patients, especially those who were ventilator dependent, became at risk of death. With nearly no communication between, or guidance from, the so called “leaders” of the hospital, the decisions made by the staff can be seen as quite flawed. Each ethical principle has been violated in this tragic situation at Memorial. Throughout the novel, the decisions made by Dr. Pou and a few others beg the reader to wonder what they would have done in this awful situation. It is not easy to decide what is the right and wrong decision, when hundreds of lives are at stake. The city of New Orleans knew that the storm was coming. Memorial Hospital chose not to evacuate its patients prior to the storm, in hopes that conditions would not get bad enough that evacuation was required, avoiding it all together. Of course, the levees failed and evacuation became a necessity. Most parts of the city were covered in several feet of water. The bottom floor of Memorial began filling with
In the book A.D New Orleans After The Deluge, By Josh Neufeld is about Hurricane Katrina and how it affected the people of New Orleans. This book was about real people that escaped and lived through the storm. Most people lost everything including their houses, all personal belongings, and jobs. As I was reading the book was shocked that in the beginning most of the characters were not worried about the storm they just wanted to wait it out. No one was expecting such a big storm and thought it would turn east like they normally did.
The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), a Level I Trauma Center on Galveston Island, received substantial damage, and except for a few clinics, has been closed since the storm. Before the hurricane, UTMB was the third largest hospital in the Houston-Galveston region and the only hospital in Galveston, serving a nine-county region in Southeast Texas, including the Greater Houston area and a range of patients requiring specialized services from across the state. UTMB’s entire health care complex spans 85 acres and includes seven hospitals, as well as an assortment of specialized clinics, centers, institutes and a medical school.
The article describes the events that happened at Memorial Medical Center during and immediately following Hurricane Katrine in Uptown New Orleans. Once the power was knocked out and running water, the hospital tempter rose to about 100 degrees and resources became limited. As resources became limited Anna Pou was force to result to triage which she was not trained for, therefore her method of triage was questioned. Another doctor, Cook, who was the administrator of Memorial ; his methods of patient care were also questioned. In order to evacuate the hospital in the time frame given to him by the state police, Cook gave Pou instructions on how kill four ICU patients who were obese.
Imagine being trapped under the dirty rubble of a fallen building that was once a hospital. Shorty, a fifteen-year-old Haitian boy, is in this exact situation. As he lies on his tattered hospital bed, he feels anything but repose. Shorty is hungry, thirsty and suffering from a gunshot wound with the fallen hospital walls surrounding him. As he lies dying he reflects on his life and the truculent streets of Haiti.
Did you know that there is a cemetery that holds every found soldier that ever fought in World War 1, World War 2, and The Korean war? Well yes, the Arlington National Cemetery holds more than four hundred thousand people over six hundred acres of land. It is the world's most important cemetery. You may wonder how the government found this land, and said,”Hey lets use this land as a cemetery.”
Teenagers have dramatically evolved throughout the twentieth century. As they have changed, so have their attitudes. In the story, Among the Mourners, the protagonist Aurora, is seen as selfish and rude. She’s also shown as rather rebellious for her age. So where does she fit in?
Arlington National Cemetery Good evening ladies and gentleman. I am your tour guide, Ava Cabrera. We are at the Arlington National Cemetery in Washington D.C, the capital of the United States of America. About 300 thousand people are buried here. From Monday to Friday we have about 210 funeral services a week.
In some of the pieces of literature like “I, Too, Sing America,” “America and I,” “The Bill of Rights,” and “Veterans Day: Never Forget Their Duty” the authors have different ideas of what it means to be American. They also express their ideas using different strategies: negation, classification, and function. With these ideas and strategies a more complex definition on what it means to be American was developed. Being an American means being patriotic, having freedoms, and believing in a dream of something amazing. Having patriotism is part of being American.
Welcome everyone to Arlington National Cemetery. I am Anthony Panissidi and i will be your tour guide. I have been touring here for over 10 years and i am yet to find someone who has not thought this is spectacular and amazing. I also have a son who is in the 8th grade and he loved it and when my daughter was in 8th grade, she is now a senior in high school also loved it. So i'm sure you guys would too.
The 2000’s was a very intense decade, with the occurrence of 9/11 which led to the War in Iraq. A year after 2000, HBO released a documentary named “Bellevue, inside Out” by Maryann DeLeo. In this documentary, the viewer gets to take a look inside Bellevue Hospital located in New York City, which contains a psychiatric institution. The film captures about 12 months inside the psychiatric unit in this hospital. The documentary follows both the employees, such as the emergency room directors, psychiatrists, nurses, etc., as well as the patients admitted into the psychiatric emergency room.
Current Reflective Essay Paper On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the coast of Texas. It was originally set to be a category 1 hurricane and wasn 't supposed to be that bad of a natural disaster. Although a number of adding factors made Hurricane Harvey a catastrophic event, the hurricane increased levels as it reached land which was one of the biggest impacts. The main two factors that made Harvey one of the most destructive natural disasters to ever hit the United States was all the recorder rainfall over the city of Houston and the release of the Addicks and Barker reservoirs.
Some of the residents of the assisted living facility required special equipment such as wheelchairs, oxygen and special medication in order to be evacuated safely, and due to the severity of the high winds and flooding, the residents or staff members couldn’t drive out of the area. Emergency managers should conduct an assessment of their community in order to identify the individuals with special needs
While her actions might not be seen as the best decision, she made one and did her best to make the rightful one under such poor circumstances that were out of her control. On the other hand, the Hospital should have prepared the health care faculty professionals for situations like such. One single doctor or a group are not at fault, because the hospital system failed them first. Multiple physicians and nurses made decisions on that day that saved and killed people.
The references and inclusions of the Mardi Gras celebration, political events, and eyewitness accounts and stories from citizens of New Orleans curates an emotional response within the audience - whether it be the imagery of starving men, women, and children - or the irony of the government’s statement of preparedness. These emotions and feelings of desolation and resentment help empower and unite Spike’s views of our country’s failure and dishonesty towards it’s own proactivity.
When the Levees Broke by Spike Lee is a documentary based on the remembrance of hurricane Katrina that sabotaged the victims mainly in New Orleans, Gulf State of Louisiana; and other US states including Mississippi; Alabama and Florida. This documentary briefly summarizes on a fight or flight struggle of many citizens in New Orleans had to challenge in their lives. To start off, in the beginning of the documentary the mayor highly suggested the citizens evacuate their home country. Some residents were in denial and refused to leave their home country while others decided to leave because they wanted to survive and protect their family. Some of the citizens were prideful and strong about their city so they were in denial of evacuating.