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New Orleans Doctors Executed Critically Ill Patients
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive.

In an extraordinary interview with The Mail on Sunday, one New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save...
Why do I picture some guy in a wheelchair with a broken leg being hunted by a doctor with a gun, yelling to him: "Mr Jones! We both know this is for your own good!"
I don't believe this. If you read the interview, you see that the patients had 'do not resuscitate' orders on them, as if these patients had both feet on banana peels. But that order actually is common for lots of people in the hospital and doesn't mean that they were about to check out. Patients got moved from all the affected hospitals over several days, and there's no reason why one would have to kill any of them. Even most critically ill patients can be moved if needed -- we do it all the time. This article might as well have appeared in Pravda.

Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-09-12
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