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Mon Sep 5 21:34:20 BST 2005

 Let's blame who's responsible and if its the "victim" so be it. I've worked for public free for all hospital systems that have endured floods w/ loss of power/water/communications. Blizzards ,rarer than floods here, and a fire that required complete evacuation. We keep 3 days of food in house at 1/2 ration that's 6 days. Alternate transportation methods and routes and places to go if you have to leave your fort. Sure FEMA showed up right on schedule, days later. Who is responsible before that? The "victim" hospital adminstrators that don't plan or plan on someone else. Everyone, large entity or individual, should have plan A and a plan B. Certainly, if its a large disaster then plan A may be affected as well. I keep a change of clothes and two meals in my work locker thats my personal plan A for large or personal disasters @ work and 5 people to call to take care of my child before I go to my plan B. It's called being responsible, its called using your frontal lobe for fore thought, its called planning for the worse case senario. I'm not blaming the patients or the working staff at these hospitals. I blame the administrators hospital and civic. There the ones that are suppose to see the big picture and plan for the future. Not the doc in the ED, the nurse on the floor, the cop on the street or the medic in the box and certainly not the pt in the bed. They are the victims and they're paying for it now. Because some coat and tie did not pay attention, did not plan but seems to be safely out of town now.
---- DocRickFry at aol.com wrote: 
>  
> In a message dated 9/5/2005 2:13:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> stealthmedic at adelphia.net writes:
> 
> Private  hospitals plan better and have less red tape. If your disaster plan 
> includes  help from the government then you have no plan at all. I work for 
> HCA we have  donated over 2M$ and supplied heli's at their expense to evacuate 
> non HCA  hospital you rally around in NO. Did the private hospital turn away 
> the  hospital across the street when they asked? Or did they just expected to be 
>  snatched out of the same hot water every one else was in? Did they expect  
> someone who had made plans, mustered out of state resources and had a  
> diversion relocation plan to turn their back on their patients, employees and  
> families because public (government) hospital that appears not to have planned  and 
> therefore gets themselves and patients in a pecarious position.   Charity's and 
> other hospitals' plight appears to be neglience at the high  admisistrative 
> level not across the street not in the private sector. I pity  the staff that 
> was left at these hospitals and grieve for their patients they  could not help. 
> 
> 
> 
> That's right--let's all blame the victims now....
> ERF
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