Is Emmett Everett Based on a Real Memorial Patient? Is He Dead or Alive?

The plot of “Five Days at Memorial,” a medical drama on Apple TV+, revolves around the discovery of 45 dead bodies in the Memorial Medical Center building in New Orleans, Louisiana, which is also home to LifeCare hospitals. LifeCare patient Emmett Everett and other characters trapped in the two hospitals after Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding are introduced to viewers as the series progresses.

One of LifeCare’s administrators, Diane Robichaux, regularly asks after Emmett. Viewers must be curious if the patient is based on a real patient and if he is among the people whose bodies are found days after the hurricane as the first three episodes of the show provide insight into his life. . Let us offer you the solution!

Emmet Everett

Emmet Everett

Is Emmett Everett based on a real patient?

Emmett Everett was indeed modeled after a real patient. Emmett, 61, was awaiting a colostomy to treat his persistent bowel obstruction at the time of the hurricane. He was transferred from the LifeCare Hospital in Memorial to the LifeCare site in Chalmette. The 380-pound manual laborer at the time was of Honduran descent. Emmett was 50 when he had a stroke that left him paraplegic, but he had kept his sense of humor. He also had a close relationship with his wife, Carrie Everett. Emmett was not currently under a do-not-resuscitate order.

Emmett was aware of what had happened at the hospital during his evacuation. According to the show’s source text, “Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital” by Sheri Fink, Emmett begged a LifeCare nurse named Cindy Chatelain not to move three of his housemates and to leave there. Diane and Dr. Anna Pou talked about getting Emmett out of there.

As stated in the source text, “We [Diane, Pou, and two Memorial nurses] kind of back and forth with scenarios if, uh, if he will or not [Emmett] to be able to be evacuated in terms of, you know, of, if somebody could physically take him down the stairs and lift him through that hole to get into the helicopter and, ah, and you know, it was said that they , they I did not think it was possible. However, according to Sheri Fink, several medical specialists felt that if they had known about Emmett and his condition, they could have evacuated him.

LifeCare’s head of physical medicine, Kristy Johnson, told Justice Department investigators she saw Pou and two nurses transfer fluids from vials into syringes. Detectives learned from Johnson that Pou claimed she would give Emmett something “to relieve him of his dizziness.” Johnson claims Pou then walked into Emmett’s room and closed the door.

Is Emmett Everett dead or alive?

Emmett was sadly one of the patients whose death was discovered at Memorial during the cyclone and flood. Nine LifeCare patients, including Emmett, had morphine found in their corpses after autopsies. The Louisiana Attorney General’s office recruited medical examiner Cyril Wecht, and he came to the conclusion that Emmett’s death was a man-made homicide. Anna Pou and two Memorial nurses have been charged with killing four second-degree patients on four separate counts. Carrie Everett, Emmett’s widow, sued Tenet, LifeCare, Pou and two Memorial nurses named Cheri Landry and Lori Budo for wrongful death.

Who gave them the authority to act like God? Who granted them authority? On a CNN Katrina anniversary show, Carrie asked about Emmett’s passing, according to the source text. 15 days after Emmett died, Carrie and the Everetts found out. Emmett “most likely” died of an enlarged heart rather than a lethal dose of drugs, according to Pou’s attorney Sheri Fink. The district attorney’s office drafted a 10-count indictment against the Memorial-era doctor before a grand jury was sworn in to hear Anna’s case.

Emmett was charged with second-degree murder on one count, while nine LifeCare patients were charged with lesser second-degree murder conspiracy charges. The allegations against Anna were dropped after the grand jury declined to indict her.

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