Richard Deichman s Dilemmas
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Tuesday, August 30th, the morning after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Louisiana, Anne Pou, a head-and-neck surgeon, looked out the window of Memorial Medical Center to see water gushing from the sewer gates, rushing towards the hospital (Fink). Senior administrators quickly set up a command center to assess the impending danger gushing towards the hospital and to decide what the next plan of action should be. Decisions were made to evacuate patients in order of importance. Richard Deichmann, the hospitalâs medical-department chairman also suggested that patients with Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders should go last (Fink). The plan was set to action as the natural disaster continued to take its toll on the limited medical personnel available