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“Family members of another one of the patients, Elaine Nelson, hired their own forensic expert to explore why the 90-year-old woman died. The report alarmed her son, Craig, a New Orleans lawyer. “It showed that Mom had received on September 1 eight milligrams of morphine, which was four times the amount that she was prescribed by her doctor, and which was a lethal amount that was certainly enough to kill her,” Nelson said. Nelson said neither he nor his sister Kathy, a registered nurse who was with their mother after Katrina until guards ordered her to leave the hospital, were called before the grand jury. Their forensic expert wasn’t called either.

Nelson has filed a lawsuit against the hospital owner and others. He said he refused a settlement offer because he wants the truth to come out, especially now that Jordan has closed the case. Nelson said he is disappointed in the way the grand jury was conducted.”

from Iwo Jima’s post #22

Mr. Nelson is mistaken about the 8 mg. I posted that entire paragraph (which you conveniently left out) in response to accusations that the families were to blame because they abandoned their loved ones. Mrs. Nelson's daughter, a nurse, stayed with her until she was made to leave. The same happened with other family members.

NO ONE (except Mr. Nelson, and he is mistaken) is saying that 8 mg is a lethal dose, or that that is what Mrs. Nelson was given by Dr. Pou, or that is what caused her death.

Mr. Nelson is going by what is recorded in the medical chaert, but Dr. Pou's injections were not reflected in the chart -- not in the physicians orders, the nurses notes, or in the MAR. But the pharmacy records that 20+ (IIRC) vials of morphine were dispensed to Dr. Pou were preserved.