[Mamzelle]

re: So what if there was no electricity, no water, few batteries? I've been in such conditions and never thought of killing anybody.)))

You keep asserting intentional murder as if you were there and a witness, and you keep making arguments which assume intentional murder as a premise. The more reasonable ground is to take account of the horrific circumstances and at least give the medical personnel the benefit of a doubt before making such a serious accusation!

Maybe your juries are stupid, but Freepers aren't. Just because you keep crying wolf doesn't make you Little Red Riding Hood.

If you have very sick patients in a panic and very few resources (Oh, you say, but that's no excuse for murder!) the first line of treatment would be sedatives (Oh, Iwo says, but that's no excuse for murder!)--however, due to the loss of electricity you'd have lost the machine that administers the drugs (No excuse for intentional homicide!!!) and there was a great deal of terror and confusion (terror and confusion are no excuse to Massacre Mommy!!)...I'm not surprised that the patients rec'd less than optimal care.

People like you are a classic example of why doctors are tempted not to stop and render aid when they see a car accident happen...

[Iwo Jima]

You make a more convincing argument than Dr. Pou does. Neither she nor anyone else on the scene has ever claimed accidental overdose.

The encounter between that hospital administrator and the staff wherein giving certain selected patients lethal doses of narcotics was discussed -- with several of the staff refusing to engage in what they called euthanasia -- is what convinces me that this was no accident. That and not documenting any of this in the medical charts.

Even under the most horrible of circumstances, even in a death camp, you always have choices to make. Dr. Pou made the wrong choices.

[pterional]

Physicians stopping at the scene of an accident is risky behavior. Since you have medical training you would not be given the immunity of the good Samaritan laws. If the person had a bad outcome and there was a lawsuit you could be liable without any malpractice coverage.