Posted on 09/20/2005 2:58:31 PM PDT by Daralundy
Via Kevin, M.D., I've learned of a news report in which it is claimed that doctors made the morally harrowing decision to kill patients in flood-ravaged hospitals with overdoses of morphine rather than letting them die in pain. The story Kevin cites seems to have originated from this article published in the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and then to have spread thoughout the British, Canadian, and Australian media. It tells a harrowing tale, which has been commented on by Majikthise and Pandagon, among others:
(Excerpt) Read more at oracknows.blogspot.com ...
One of the hospitals - do not remember which one - had a lot of bodies compared with the average # they usually had per day and were supposed to be doing autopsies. Has there been anything in the news on this?
A question that does NOT need to be asked - IMHO
I haven't heard anything more about the hospital since the initial report. Maybe when the autopsies are done?
Sure it is. Glad the idiot that started the cannibalism rumor was shut up early on.
i doubt that...any follow-up was probably censored
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