Katrina hero Anna Pou is suing the Attorney General:
Pou, 51, was among the medical professionals stranded in the flooded city without power or means of escape for four days at Memorial Medical Center in 2005. Despite the mandatory evacuation issued by the city, Pou and her colleagues stuck it out amid the disastrous conditions.Still waiting on an Orleans Parish Grand Jury’s decision whether to charge her criminally in the matter, Pou fired back against her original accuser, Foti, accusing him of playing politics with her life and the dead from Katrina, and demanding the state provide her with a civil defense in the mounting lawsuits by patients’ families.
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Good for Dr. Pou.
Fotifong is still another crooked lawyer (I know I repeat myself), looking to make a name for himself on the back of someone who actually tried to help.
I sent money to relief efforts in New Orleans.
I want a refund.
I know and admire Dr. Pou, so my comments are less than objective.
The original charges came very quickly but there was no follow-up legal activity. Although only the Mr. Foti knows for certain, there always seemed to be the possibility that the charges were politically motivated rather than filed to protect the public interest.
I hope this helps disperse the cloud that has hovered over the head of a decent and brave physician. Dr. Pou volunteered to stay and help the sick and suffering in New Orleans during an unspeakably difficult time in its history.
the fact this is even an issue has caused tremendous detriment to physician altruism in general.
I’m sure there is some kindling left over from the Nifong torching.
So out of curiosity in response to some of the thoughts on this thread…can physicians just leave a hospital they’re working at in the event of a crisis?
I’m sure Foti and his crew would then sue for patient abandonment…
Anyways though…is there some chain of command that specifies who gets to leave vs. not?
Is this akin to the captain going down with the ship?
Who’s the captain then? The hospital administrators? The Chief of Medicine? the hapless person who happens to be on call?
Hero? As usual, medical worship and self-aggrandizement.
Good for her. If Nifong has done one thing well it is greasing the skids for prosecuting these folks.
>>So out of curiosity in response to some of the thoughts on this thread…can physicians just leave a hospital they’re working at in the event of a crisis?
In the future, they will. Cases like this will ensure it.
And, once again, the blame rests squarely on the lawyers.
11:19 PM: Hero? Who are you referring to? Do you have a hero? Please enlighten us. I can tell you that I would not have risked my life by staying there.
Read the first line under the heading of the post.
Yeah, it’s the lawyers’ fault other hospital employees accused Pou of euthanizing patients.
Anon 9:10 has a point. I do remember that it was a physician who initially complained about her. Hadn’t she asked him for help or his opinion about it? Why do you guys not acknowledge that?
No, it’s not the lawyer’s fault someone else made the accusation. Same as it wasn’t Nifong’s fault the stipper made the false accusation. It’s the lawyer’s fault for not promptly disposing of the case.
It’s Nifong’s fault for pursuing the case despite the manifest innocence of the accused.
Of course we know why he did it.
At least the doctor cutting off the wrong leg didn’t mean to cut off the wrong leg. And if someone said “Doctor, you’re cutting off the wrong leg”, the doc would at least have the decency to stop and check.
What facts do you have that indicate he should ditch the case before taking it to the grand jury? Other than that she is a doctor and could never have made an error?
Uh…..the facts that I have include Hurricane Katrina, the hospital in disaster conditions, power going out, gunshots outside, suffering patients and no way to help them.
As was pointed out: “…I do remember that it was a physician who initially complained about her. Hadn’t she asked him for help or his opinion about it? Why do you guys not acknowledge that?”
As in, she asked for help and didn’t get it.
Maybe she could have gone to the hospital’s legal department for advice.
Oh yeah, much like rats and sinking ships, they all left before they got their Florsheims dirty.
On the “sh!t rolls downhill” theory, as a faculty physician, she could easily have left junior physicians stuck with the job. But she didn’t. And that was so she could kill people?
But hey, it’s been just a little over a year since Doctor Pou was led out in handcuffs. If that clown has evidence, bring it to the grand jury, now, or drop charges.
The take home lesson. When a disaster hits, do like the lawyers do. Divert National Guard personnel from their duties to bring you to your house, so you can retrieve your bribe money from the freezer.
“Uh…..the facts that I have include Hurricane Katrina, the hospital in disaster conditions, power going out, gunshots outside, suffering patients and no way to help them.”
So you get to summarily execute people in that situation if you’re a doctor? A disaster with gunshots outside?
How do you know where the lawyers were? You clearly know little about the case, since you didn’t know the grand jury was convened and heard evidence this past spring.
If any good comes out of this, may it be that it starts the beginning of the end of Foti’s crooked career.
You’re a real piece of work, to say she “summarily executed” anyone.
What’s the matter CJD, lost your bribe money in the hurricane?
I know where the lawyers were. Got sworn statements and DNA samples. Sheesh.
Anna Pou has more credibility than the entire New Orleans Bar.
Not that that’s saying much.
Dr. Pou “summarily executed” her patients?
Talk about prejudging a case.
Thank the Good Lord for medical professionals like Dr Pou and the nurses who stayed amid unforseeable challenges. Who could have imagined the outcome of Hurricane Katrina. I’ve have prayed for Dr Pou and the nurses since this entire process has begun, and am thankful for justice prevailing. May God bless these people and all the first responders in this time of chaos.
The real crime is that 2 years later and the hospitals are still not opened, and the ones that are opened, don’t have staff!!
Dr. Pou comments after her Grand Jury non-indictment, saying she is ready to get back to helping people.
Instead of trying to prosecute those that were trying to do good, maybe the DA should focus more on their internal corruption, along with the City Government, and of course the pump house workers who left their posts. These are all cases where more harm was done, with consequences yet to come, then if the nurses and doctors would have abandoned their posts and left all the patients to die!
As the hospital is dealing with a finite number of people, and the others are dealing with masses of people.
I mean really, wake up and smell the sewage, which has also not changed much in 2 years (in some parts of town)!
As always no good deed goes unpunished.
cannot blame the good doctor for what happened to new orleans… i hope she does well in the future and if she can– email me –love to chat with her
DERRLL5@aol.com
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