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September 12, 2005
Acts of Desparation in New Orleans
This article in London's Daily Mail raises more disturbing questions about the government's timely response to the disaster in New Orleans.
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.
Thanks to Bad Attitudes for the info.
Posted by Chip Spear at September 12, 2005 8:50 AM