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Even if they didn’t have a terminal condition at the time Katrina hit, with the heat and humidity they may not have survived that.

I know someone with emphysema and when it gets to hot and humid out, he has trouble breathing.

The one woman was 90 years old. She could have just died anyway. Most people don’t even make it that long and the heat and maybe dehydration could have done her in, not the medicine, even if she was given something for the pain.

She swears she did not kill the patients. Don’t you think that if they were going to do that, they might have tried other methods to make it look more like natural causes? They had to know that there would be inquiry and testing done and what it would show.

I’m not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt.

Some of these nine patients may not have made it, that is true. But they had survived a great deal, they had no serious medical ailments, no terminal conditions. Who's to say that they would not have survived another day or so until rescued?

Who's decision is it if someone gets to try to survive or not? Not these patients. They weren't consulted. Not their families, the families that were there were sent away before the dirty deed was done. Dr. Pou felt that she was the one to make that decision. I think not. How about you?

These patients did not have emphysema or trouble breathing that I have ever heard about. Certainly, Dr. Pou has not maintained that.

"She swears that she did not kill the patients." More accurately, what she is in effect saying is that killing them was the compassionate thing to do. But would it surprise you to learn that many people accused of crimes deny it? Do you give all indicted persons the same benefit of the doubt, or just doctors?

At this stage of the proceedings, the standard of proof is not "beyond a reasonable doubt." All the grand jurors are asked to consider is if there is probable cause that a crime may have been committed. The criminal trial jury determines guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Actually, overdoses of morphine is a common way that medical personnel "assist" a patient into death. Dr. Pou was just more desperate than most doctors and couldn't take the time to do it quietly and subtlety. And I bet that they never dreamed that part of the medical establishment would "squeal" on them by telling the authorities what they knew. To the doctors, this is tantamount to treason. They are closing ranks because if Dr. Pou is guilty, then they all are because they have all done similar things, just not so openly and so many at one time.