Posted on 10/13/2005 6:12:56 PM PDT by abb
Based on allegations that Memorial Medical Center doctors considered putting frail patients to death in the first days after Hurricane Katrina, state Attorney General Charles Foti has ordered an investigation of all hospital and nursing home deaths after the storm.
In response to a request from Foti, Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said he has supervised autopsies of 35 Memorial Medical Center patients at the temporary morgue at St. Gabriel.
These procedures included tests for narcotics such as morphine that could put people to death. The test kits were shipped to a Pennsylvania laboratory for processing, and Minyard said he does not know when the results will arrive.
Kris Wartelle, a Foti spokeswoman, said the investigation is expected to be finished in two weeks.
The bodies of 45 people were removed from the hospital. Of those, 11 people had been in the hospital morgue before the storm, and 34 people - most of them weak patients in a long-term care center within the hospital - died after Katrina blew through.
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More horror stories from the Democrat paradise of New Orleans...
I was thinking "mercy killing" the first time I saw Blanco sob her way thriugh a presser with Landreiu doing a bad Edgar Bergen beside her.
He was a contract doctor, not a staff member, and he had been at Memorial "about a month" before Katrina, Campanini said.
"He was not an insider," Campanini said. "He was not a part of the management group that was in charge."
So one wonders what reason he would have to make up this sort of story. One month is hardly enough time to even make an enemy.
I guess then since he was an outsider, he was left out of the decisions to snuff the patients and shut up.
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