Another P.O.V. on Charity
So I called my friend today to find out his opinion on Charity because he is a medical researcher who works for LSU and he loves New Orleans as much as I do, and he also has the sensitivity of knowing good architecture and understanding the medical world. He tells me that in the next twenty to fifty years medicine and treatment is going to advance to such levels as we have never seen before and that simply undertaking gene therapy alone is going to be a milestone in what is required for a building.
The new hospital proposed will decimate a neighborhood and as much as we all want to pick up those shotguns and move them someplace to preserve them, the plain truth is that the old 1930’s art deco Charity Hospital could not be retrofitted to be the hospital of the future that this money is supposed to build.
His fear is the money gets placed somewhere else – and so as much as he (and I) lament the coming of an ugly, monster complex sprawl – the inside of this proposed hospital would be so avante garde as to attract the resources necessary to make it a world class teaching hospital.