Attorneys Say Doctor, Nurses Innocent

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Attorneys Say Doctor, Nurses Innocent

RUKMINI CALLIMACHI


Associated Press Writer



High on the seventh floor of Memorial Medical Center, some of the city's sickest patients lay in wet, sweaty sheets, drifting in and out of consciousness.

In the hours before the last of the hospital's patients were evacuated, one of Hurricane Katrina's most uncomfortable decisions had to be made: What would happen to those too sick to be moved?

According to a months long investigation by the state's attorney general that was made public Tuesday, a doctor and two nurses "pretended that maybe they were God" and put to death four patients using a lethal injection of drugs, after deciding that the four were either too ill or too incapacitated to be transported.

The deceased, who ranged in age from 61 to 90 years old, would have survived Katrina had they not been administered the lethal doses, Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti said.
http://www.emsresponder.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=3754
 
I heard some rumors of this when I was down there in September. I'm not sure whether or not euthanasia occured, and if I wouldn't have made the same choice, or wanted it made for me.
 
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