The scenario at Memorial, he wrote, was a horror, but an instance of the horror others faced throughout the Central Gulf Coast region. “Our situation was not unique, but somehow our reactions and responses regrettably were,” he wrote. “Other hospitals with similar stress had more success than we. Was there some inherent flaw in our leadership? Look to ourselves and our behavior. Don’t indict government abandonment, while ignoring corporate neglect. Don’t cite the dread of lawlessness surrounding the hospital, when internally dreadful disregard for law and ethics may have become endorsed
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