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temperance14Was there a discussion of euthanasia for critically ill patients who could not be transported during the Katrina crisis? If so, where those decisions acted upon?
“Soon after Hurricane Katrina struck, the first unconfirmed reports surfaced of "mercy killings" -- euthanasia of patients -- at New Orleans hospitals. For months, the Louisiana attorney general has been investigating these charges. That investigation has centered on the actions of doctors and nurses at the city's Memorial Medical Center.”
“According to eyewitness accounts documented in court papers, in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit, a decision was made to euthanize patients on the hospital's seventh floor, a separate long-term patient care facility run by LifeCare Hospitals.”
Longish text file, and NPR sound file:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219917
“Soon after Hurricane Katrina struck, the first unconfirmed reports surfaced of "mercy killings" -- euthanasia of patients -- at New Orleans hospitals. For months, the Louisiana attorney general has been investigating these charges. That investigation has centered on the actions of doctors and nurses at the city's Memorial Medical Center.”
“According to eyewitness accounts documented in court papers, in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina hit, a decision was made to euthanize patients on the hospital's seventh floor, a separate long-term patient care facility run by LifeCare Hospitals.”
Longish text file, and NPR sound file:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219917
