"Katrina's Deadly Hospital Mystery"

Newsweek looks this week at the three arrests in the investigation into charges of euthanasia in New Orleans hospitals during the horrid crisis precipitated by the lack of preparedness for Hurricane Katrina late in August 2005.

As I've stated before, I do not believe doctors performed mercy killings about the least capable of patients. It makes no sense on a number of levels, one of them being that why would doctors and nurses (as well as other medical personnel) have risked their lives to stay with their patients only to kill them off? Hundreds of family members who stayed with their loved ones state categorically this did not occur as have others who were not employed by the hospitals. The few people who have made these charges seem rather "fringe" types. None offer eye witness accounts.

And, also stated here before, the bodies of the patients were so terribly decomposed before they were checked for fatal morphine and other levels that no forensics expert would attest tissue samples were valid. I think this is a witch hunt largely perpetrated by the same sorts of people who cry foul when the terminally ill receive pain medication of any kind, who are happy to have the death penalty and to cut funding for programs to help newborns and children of indigent families but scream for the imprisonment and even the execution of OB/GYNs who perform abortions.