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KING: There`s no electricity. There`s no water. It`s hot. I mean, people are dying. We thought it was as bad as it could get. All we wanted to know is, Why aren`t we being evacuated yet? That was our biggest thing. We should be gone by now.

That's from the same CNN transcript in which Dr. King is said to have accused Dr. Pou. The same interview show that describes how he abandoned everyone at the hospital.

If there's no electricity, the nurses and doctors would have been ventilating the patients by hand, with whatever oxygen tanks or room air that was available. Why didn't this strong young man stay to help "bag" the patients so that they could breathe? Why didn't he stay to protect the women nurses and doctors?

I hope I never need to depend on Dr. King - either as a colleague or as a physician to my medical needs.

On the other hand, if the nurses can't manage my ventilator and if there's no oxygen and no IV's to keep me hydrated, I hope that the doctors will give me medicine to make me comfortable as possible while I am going through the air hunger and dehydration.

This is the point where intent is more a determining factor of ethics than the actual act. Even if it puts me at risk of dying sooner from the medicine plus the lack of ventilation,if the intention is to make me comfortable, but my death is not intended, then the doctor will be practicing good medicine.