Dr. Ben deBoisblanc This is Me

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1. 1. www.Free.WritingClasses.com

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   Published on: 5/24/2008   Last Visited: 8/5/2008

   Here is the voice of Dr. Ben deBoisblanc, a physician at Charity Hospital in New Orleans, who tended to the injured in the days after Katrina struck.

2. 2. www.endowmentmed.org

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   Published on: 4/10/2008   Last Visited: 4/10/2008

   Dr. Ben deBoisblanc, director of critical care at Charity Hospital, said he and others are angry at the accusations against a doctor and nurses who risked their own safety, and provided care in a chaotic and frightening situation.
   
   "This doctor and these nurses were heroes.They stayed behind of their own volition to care for desperately ill people.They had an opportunity to leave and chose not to," he said.
   
   Memorial Medical was swamped with 10 feet of water and isolated by Katrina's flooding.The 317-bed hospital had no electricity and the temperature inside rose over 100 degrees as the staff tried to tend to patients who waited four days to be evacuated.
   
   Attorneys for the trio say they are innocent.DeBoisblanc and others fear the accusations may discourage other health professionals.
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   DeBoisblanc said it's also likely to make doctors less eager to return as the city tries to recover from the hurricane.
   
   "If you think that going after physicians and nurses while hardened criminals are ruling this town, if you think that's an image that's going to bring people back, you've got to be kidding yourself," he said, noting the recent rash of violent crime in New Orleans.
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   "If you didn't find sedatives and analgesics in these people, I would think that was inhumane," deBoisblanc said.

3. 3. Doctors scared to help after Katrina murder prosecution - 25 Jul 2006 - World News

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   Ben deBoisblanc, was head of intensive care at Charity Hospital until damage from Hurricane Katrina forced its closure, said the drugs were not the "lethal cocktail" the attorney general described. "We use these drugs in combination all the time," said deBoisblanc, who also worked through Hurricane Katrina, which killed 1336 people. "The difference between murder and compassionate care is intent.If my intention is to alleviate your pain and suffering, even if death is a foreseeable and immediate consequence of that act, still that constitutes compassionate care.If my intent is to kill you, then that is murder," he said.