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Rationing health care in a disaster
If you read one article health care-related this week, make it this extraordinary Sheri Fink/NY Times Magazine article on the impossible choices that the heroic doctors -- including Dr. Anna Pou -- faced at the former Memorial Medical Center...
Dr. Pou's fog of Katrina
This Dr. Susan Okie/New England Journal of Medicine article (H/T Kolahun) provides the most extensive analysis to date of the circumstances surrounding the tragic deaths of the nine New Orleans area hospital patients during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that...
In Dr. Pou's words
Dr. Anna Pou (previous posts here), the former faculty member of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, performed heroically in the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For her heroism, she became the main subject of one of the...
Good news for Dr. Pou
An old saying in criminal defense circles is that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich if the prosecutor is inclined to do so. Fortunately, that was not the case in regard to former Houston...
Dr. Pou's defense goes on the offensive
The state's threat to prosecute Dr. Anna M. Pou for murder is a sad reflection of the incompetence in the Louisiana state government that permeated the preparations for and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. After almost two years now of...
Update on the case of Dr. Pou
Speaking of prosecutorial excess, the case of Dr. Anna Pou -- the former University of Texas Health Science Center professor and physician who was arrested last year in Louisiana on wrongful death charges for her actions in attempting to save...
The story behind the arrest of Dr. Pou
As noted in this previous post, the arrest in Louisiana of former University of Texas Health Science Center professor and physician Dr. Anna Pou on wrongful death charges for her actions in attempting to save lives during the chaotic aftermath...
The doctor at the center of the Hurricane Katrina wrongful death prosecution
Dr. Anna Pou, the New Orleans doctor who heroically served severely-ill patients during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina last summer, is at the center of the highly-publicized and controversial decision of Louisiana criminal authorities earlier this week to arrest...
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