Nurse haunted by screams of patients she could not save as tsunami hit

[RamboLiberal]

Rikuzen-Takata, Japan (CNN) -- At a hospital in northeastern Japan, the remnants of lives stolen in seconds are scattered on each of its four floors.

Metal beds are bent, I-V bags are filled with muddy water, and blood pressure monitors sit underneath splintered trees.

But Takata Hospital nurse Fumiko Suzuki doesn't just see the damage, she hears the haunted screams of the patients she could not save.

"The patients couldn't walk," said Suzuki, recalling the moment the tsunami hit.

"I heard someone screaming, 'Auntie, I can't save you. I'm sorry.' Then she ran out of the room."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/japan.tsunami.hospital/index.html?hpt=T2

[uppityperson]

1. :( k&r

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Compare that with the staff who killed their patients during Katrina

then justified it over and over during the trials.
One of the drs, has written a self serving book about it and is now lecturing on ....medical ethics.

[Sal Minella]

3. I would much rather be overdosed into the next world than

drown in swirling muddy, oily, sewage-laden floodwaters.

But maybe that's just me.

If I were too ill or too fragile to be moved, I would be deeply grateful to someone so merciful as to prevent unnecessary suffering.

[likesmountains 52]

4. +1

[uppityperson]

5. So would I. I fully support what they did. Caught between a rock and a hard place,having to

chose how their patients would die.

[Control-Z]

7. So would I. n/t

[kickysnana]

8. +1

[Very_Boring_Name]

9. Well said

It's so easy for us to sit here in the comfort of our chairs and denounce the doctors who put these doomed people out of their suffering. But when your only option is quick, painless death or long, "lawfully required" death, I think its obvious which choice any reasonable person would make.

[SharonAnn]

12. Yes, remember they had been there for days, hot, no electricity, no

food, no water, no functioning equipment.

There were nurses hand compressing the breathing device for one patient for days.

just try to imagine the hell that was.

Thank you for reminding me what an SOB GWB was.

[FedUpWithIt All]

11. I agree with you. They were faced with a nightmare situation and had tough decisions to make. n/t

[calimary]

13. Same here. No question.

I can understand, and sympathize, with what happened in New Orleans. I've read the accounts of it. Sounds like they did the best they could, and the most humane, in an abysmally hopeless situation. People should always have that option.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. I must agree.

[KittyWampus]

6. Well, compare the nurses who had to deal with Katrina's aftermath w/ some DU'er sitting comfortably

in their homes typing crap on their computer.

[likesmountains 52]

10. Amen...