Three clinicians face charges in alleged Katrina killings
Hospital Safety Connection, July 19, 2006
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In one of the strangest twists following a community disaster, the attorney general in Louisiana issued arrest warrants for three clinicians who allegedly killed four patients at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans as the hospital struggled to survive after Hurricane Katrina.
A doctor and two nurses face charges of second-degree murder after they allegedly injected the patients with lethal doses of morphine and the sedative midazolam, according to a statement by Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. The patients were in a long-term care unit operated by Lifecare Hospitals on the seventh floor of Memorial Medical.
None of the victims received the medications for routine care, Foti said.
Expect the doctor and nurses to contest the pending charges in cases that will likely hinge on the terrible conditions that hospital staff faced after Katrina battered the Gulf Coast.
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