Kwon Bill’s Reviews > Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital > Status Update

“A caller complained that looters were ravaging New Orleans. She didn't say how she knew this, but the host amplified her outrage to thousands of listeners. "If someone is breaking into businesses and looting merchandise, these people should be shot," he said. "We're under martial law here.”

Another example of misreporting causing issues and stirring things up.

Dr. Horace Baltz engaged in spirited debates over coffee with colleagues who believed excessive resources were being poured into LifeCare's typically elderly, infirm patient popula-tion. "We spend too much on these turkeys," one of them said.
"We ought to let them go." "You have no right to decide who lives and who dies," Baltz would answer.

Dr. Leon R. Kass, who suggested that even healthy life extension could strain society and deprive the young of jobs. "We've got a duty to die," Lamm said, "and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.