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Doctor and Two Nurses Arrested For Hurricane Katrina "Euthanasia" Nightmare
By John Jalsevac
NEW ORLEANS, July 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A doctor and two nurses
who were on duty at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans during
Hurricane Katrina have been arrested and charged with four counts of
second-degree murder.
The warrant for their arrest charges the three medical personnel with
killing four patients “by administering or causing to be administered
lethal doses of morphine sulphate (morphine) and midazolam (Versed),"
according to Forbes.
The arrests follow months of investigation by Louisiana Attorney
General Charles Foti, Jr., into the suspicious deaths of numerous
patients at the Medical Center. After the flood caused by Katrina, 45
bodies were recovered from the medical center, a suspiciously high
number, even given the dire conditions at the center.
Rumors that patients at the Memorial Medical Center might have been
murdered by medical staff surfaced shortly afterwards. Immediately
media sources attempted to put the spin of “mercy killings” on the
deaths, saying that with rapidly deteriorating conditions doctors were
forced to end the suffering of the patients.
Dr. Bryant King, a doctor who was working at the hospital at the time,
claims that a hospital administrator suggested euthanizing patients, to
put them “out of their misery,” according to CNN.
In an interview with the UK’s The Mail in September, a doctor, whose
name was protected by the euthanasia-supportive Daily Mail media,
claimed that those who were killed were killed out of “compassion.”
“This was not murder, this was compassion,” the doctor emphasized.
“They would have been dead within hours, if not days. We did not put
people down. What we did was give comfort to the end.”
The doctor admitted to giving lethal injections of morphine. “If the
first dose was not enough, I gave a double dose. It came down to giving
people the basic human right to die with dignity.”
The report was corroborated by other witnesses, including local
government officials and a hospital orderly. Emergency worker William
‘Forest’ McQueen supported the move by the doctors. “Those who had no
chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a
dark place to die,” he said.
Attorney General Foti, however, disagrees that re-labelling a crime in
any way justifies it. "We're not calling this euthanasia. We're not
calling this mercy killings. This is second-degree murder," said Kris
Wartelle, a spokesperson for Foti, following the arrests of the doctor
and nurses.
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