Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:20 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW ORLEANS, June 21, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo, who have admitted to administering lethal doses of medication to patients during the hurricane Katrina disaster, are being offered immunity from prosecution by the Louisiana Attorney General.
CNN reports that in two weeks the two will testify before a Grand Jury that four patients died after being administered what Louisiana's Attorney General, Charles Foti Jr., called a "lethal cocktail" of drugs.
In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane that devastated New Orleans in late August 2005, rumours began to fly around the internet world that patients were being killed by health care workers who wanted to flee the appalling conditions in the inner city New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center. Later, two doctors admitted that patients were euthanized, one doctor saying that he had fled the hospital rather than directly participate in killing patients.
The following July, one doctor and the two nurses were arrested and charged with four counts of second-degree murder for lethally injecting patients. Dr. Anna Pou, a head and neck surgeon who specializes in working with cancer patients, denied the charges insisting that she did not support euthanasia and claimed to have given only comfort care for the patients.
Court documents, however, assert that witnesses have testified that Dr. Pou and the two nurses took syringes full of drugs to a ward for the chronically-ill and injected four patients. 34 dead patients were found in Memorial following the Katrina disaster.
Foti told media, "We …spent almost 10 ½ months investigating and, after all of this, can only come to the conclusion that this crime had been committed."
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
New Orleans Doctors Kill Patients Rather Than Leave Them to Looters, Then Flee
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/sep/05091205.html
Doctor Charged in Katrina Deaths Denies Committing Murder, Euthanasia
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06092502.html
You only get to decide if your decision is to kill them. Any other choice would be judgemental. /s
Well, ask it on a thread about whatever it was you were talking about.
So you would murder them?
The only time killing is justified is to prevent the “target” from taking innocent life or as a penalty for a capital offense. A murderer (or one attempting to murder) is no longer innocent.
There is a huge difference between defending ones self (or others) and cold blooded murder.
If you don’t understand that then I have no wish to communicate with you.
Go with God, FRiend.
I find your lack of humanity entertaining. I don’t see much of that since the bug zapper thread.
Good doc! BQ, remember all this insanity down there?
It would be easy to brand that man a coward but I won’t. I pray to God I would have the guts to at least try to protect the helpless...
So let’s top one bad choice with an even worse one. Let’s kill the useless eaters!
Do you think if they chose to cut their patients throats they could have sold the morphine to the looters who were “Jonesin'?”
Humanity’s problems cannot be solved mathematically.
He may have done that by leaving. It was crazy times down there then. His own life may have been in danger, too. Who knows? By leaving, he’d have access to alert others.
Oh, I understand, and I also understand compassion. But I am glad to know that given the choice you would have approved of the decision to destroy the aircraft before it could hit the tower.
If I had the links I would provide them, but...
Recently there was a teen age girl who murdered her parents. IIRC her brother survived. She and her 20 something year old boyfriend found the parents “inconvenient.”
Years ago a woman in Texas drowned her children in the bath tub.
Within the last year another woman threw her children off of a bridge.
About 12 (?) years ago Susan Smith sent her children to the bottom of a lake in the car. She claimed a black man had car-jacked her.
Even in the case of the “Yeates woman” in Texas, where the claim was insanity, I believe that the victims were simply “inconvenient.”
So; would you kill a child who cramps your style? If you are employed by a hospital would you kill your charges or would you try to save them? When you see suffering in an orphanage what do you see as the correct solution?
A few weeks ago I had to have a cat put down. He had been sick, on and off, for a year. I don’t think I ever had a more difficult task to do. If I had to go through it again I guess I would have to do the same thing. But I would never do it with a human being. A human is made in the image of God. I had that cat for over 16 years and I loved him, but he was not made in God’s image.
AS for murdering patients in their beds,the staff would have showed courage if they fought hard to save the patients at the risk of losing their jobs by calling for evacuation earlier and not accepting no for an answer.How much braver to have demanded the patients be moved and threatened to,and if needed,resigned the jobs and gone to the news media and to the city officials.. Any amoral animal can bite and kill if it finds itself backed into a corner.People,especially highly trained,educated doctors and nurses ,who use their brains try to avoid being forced into corners.
The doctors and nurses involved should lose their licenses and their freedom.
I hope you never told that to the cat. They have fragile egos, you know. ; )
None of your examples are relevant. Simple greed or inconvenience is not part of the discussion here. Your profile says you were in the USAF. If you were in a fighter, back in the pre-Clinton era when they still carried weapons, and saw an aircraft on its way to hit the WTC and you had a clear shot...would you have fired? One shot, possibly, and all that death and suffering could have been avoided...except for an unfortunate few. Horrible situation to be in and you should not have to be in it...but there you are. In many ways, those doctors may have been in the same situation.
Your example is irrelevent. These patients weren’t killed to save the lives of a greater number of people. If you want a relevent hypothetical example from 9/11, here’s one a little closer to this situation. Should the firemen going into the burning buildings have brought with them lethal injections, for any victims they couldn’t save?
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