Sheri Fink, reporter for ProPublica, and a doctor, had this piece published in the New York Times Magazine that on the cover said, “The floodwaters from Katrina had knocked out the power. Doctors and nurses were overstretched and overtired, patients were dying and the evacuation of many of the sickest seemed impossible. “Injecting drugs was one answer that some members of the medical staff decided on. Were they trying to comfort those patients—or hasten their [demise]?”
This article is about 18 patients who may have been "killed" with lethal injection by hospital attendants because hospital workers thought the patients could not be evacuated after the power went out because of floods after Katrina. Are the doctors and nurses responsible? Or is George Bush, who could barely be bothered to leave one of his many vacations (this one a month long) during one of America's worst "natural" disasters.
These excerpts are from Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! where the whole interview with Sheri Fink can be heard or read.
Sheri Finks article can be read on the New York Times Magazine website.
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