I was a little surprised John Ridley focused on Dr. Pou as much as he did in this final episode. Granted, she deserves the scrutiny, as I've been in the camp of "neutral player in a bad game" where Tenent shouldn't have put her in a situation where she had unchecked authority and was sole decision maker. But what was surprising was not that she got off (we already knew that per Fink's book), but the focus of the last scene of the series where Dr. Horace Baltz/Robert Pine and basically confronts her disaster narrative at the dinner seminar.
That scene is pretty much real-life Dr. Pou in a nutshell since she was cleared by the grand jury until now, where she's made a career of speaking at road shows blaming everyone but herself, all while omitting anything she actually did (the injecting part) at Memorial that was questionable.
That is a real-life scene, or where Dr. Pou is receiving speaking fees for being the "hero" of Memorial Hospital, but in reality is rallying the NOLA medical community (mostly MD's and nurses) and pushing for civil protections against malpractice lawsuits when they make grave mistakes during natural disasters.
She didn't do a thing to make sure a situation like this won't happen again to her patients and staff (like coming up with disaster triage best practices including from flooding) but will do everything possible to CYA.
I was mixed on the updates at the end Ridley provided as they were truth telling, sans Tenet's civil liability, with regards to Pou going back into the backwater Louisiana medical community having faced no real consequences except a civil settlement. But there was one big thing he did not mention: These were the Diane Robichaux and Butch Schafer investigative files being sealed despite being a public investigation. Want to know who is fighting in court currently to keep these 50,000 pages of records sealed?
Dr. Pou, that's who. This is the one part Ridley covered well (the pages upon pages of findings) but never followed up with how those records are never seeing the light of day, mostly because it would be bad for Pou.
That scene is pretty much real-life Dr. Pou in a nutshell since she was cleared by the grand jury until now, where she's made a career of speaking at road shows blaming everyone but herself, all while omitting anything she actually did (the injecting part) at Memorial that was questionable.
That is a real-life scene, or where Dr. Pou is receiving speaking fees for being the "hero" of Memorial Hospital, but in reality is rallying the NOLA medical community (mostly MD's and nurses) and pushing for civil protections against malpractice lawsuits when they make grave mistakes during natural disasters.
She didn't do a thing to make sure a situation like this won't happen again to her patients and staff (like coming up with disaster triage best practices including from flooding) but will do everything possible to CYA.
I was mixed on the updates at the end Ridley provided as they were truth telling, sans Tenet's civil liability, with regards to Pou going back into the backwater Louisiana medical community having faced no real consequences except a civil settlement. But there was one big thing he did not mention: These were the Diane Robichaux and Butch Schafer investigative files being sealed despite being a public investigation. Want to know who is fighting in court currently to keep these 50,000 pages of records sealed?
Dr. Pou, that's who. This is the one part Ridley covered well (the pages upon pages of findings) but never followed up with how those records are never seeing the light of day, mostly because it would be bad for Pou.
