We had to kill our patients

[Jo Canadian]

We had to kill our 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.

Have your say » Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by a hospital orderly and by local government officials. One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die." More

 

[Reverend Blair]

RE: We had to kill our pa

What a choice to have to make. The failure of the government(s) to protect its citizens is becoming more and more clear all of the time.

 

[Martin Le Acadien]

The attorney-General of Louisiana has announced that he will be looking into all cases of elder deaths by neglect and euthansia cases as they are brought to his attention.

St. Rita nursing home incident is top priority along with several other cases making the rounds.

 

[no1important]

RE: We had to kill our pa

I just heard on radio they found 45 dead bodies from a hospital that was evacuated a week ago.

Bodies Found at New Orleans Hospital

 

[Martin Le Acadien]

The deaths of the elderly and hospitals point to the fact that Emergency Planning with local officials might have left something to be desired. Special Needs and Medical Patients should be the first one evacuated.