2 nurses, 1 doctor charged with 2nd degree MURDER re: Hurricane Corrina

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three arrests were made late Monday in connection with the alleged deliberate deaths of some patients at New Orleans Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina hit, a source close to the investigation told CNN.

The source told CNN the charges are "serious." Details of the arrests and investigation are expected to be disclosed by Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti Jr. at a news conference Tuesday.

In October, CNN reported exclusively that after deteriorating conditions -- with food running low and no electricity -- some medical staff openly discussed whether patients should be euthanized...

Dr. Bryant King, a contract physician for Memorial who was working before and after the storm, said another doctor came to him and recounted a conversation the doctor claimed she had earlier with a hospital administrator.

According to King, the doctor said that the administrator suggested patients be put "out of their misery."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/18/hospital.deaths/

...what these doctors and nurses had to do in what amounted to catastrophic conditions, abandoned by the so-called civilization of law.

And they agree with you. They are very sympathetic to these medical professionals, and cannot imagine the hell they want through or the choices they were forced to make.

It's like those nursing home owners they are taking to jury: it's selective conviction without knowing or exploring the horrible plight and decisions these people went through.

and by that I mean both the FEMA response, and the fact that funding for the levees were cut, which opened the door for this to happen.

Should he be charged for criminal negelect and crimes against humanity for ignoring the crisis while he went to Arizona to eat that "shit" cake with that shit mccain and then on to California for a photo op to play air guitar with some willing dupe?

:grr:

Why aren't they charging the Bush Administration for euthenizing the City of New Orleans following Katrina?

Just another 1200 counts of negligent homicide.

..."However, King never saw any wrongdoing occur." A lot of crazy shit went on after Katrina - it brought out the best in some and the worse in others. Perhaps if the pResident had pulled himself away from "My Pet Goat" for a minute, and Brownie wasn't the idiot that he is and if the Army Corps of Engineers did their job correctly, ah hell, who am I kidding...

We all know where the true criminals reside.

is the envy of the world, right? I hope every one of these people is convicted and does hard time.

Bush and Chertoff are the real guilty parties in my estimation.

I am disgusted that they're going after good medical professionals who were doing the best they could in inhumane and horrific conditions. I want to help them out. If that had been my husband . . . I don't know how anyone could judge them.

2nd degree implies malice but no pre-meditation.

This strikes me as having pre-meditation, but no malice.

after the docs and nurses.

With the total lack of help, these doctors and nurses did not have the ability to save these people. How could they transport them? How could they have done anything else?

If they refused to let the transporters have them, and refused to call for help, then there's a possibility that they actually contributed to a murder. But with all the hurricane warnings, why were these people here to begin with? Why are there hospitals and nursing homes and prisons in these flood zones at all?

Get Brownie and Chertoff if you're going after nurses.

Honestly, if it were my granny, and she was going to be abandonded, and I was also stuck on top of a roof waiting to be rescued, I would be looking to sue the govt agency that allowed the hospital to be built there, and then had no levee or back up plan. But I wouldn't go after the nurses and docs.

where do i even start?

i wonder what king's issue is w. these 3 women