This will be interesting...

I think these doctors were in a no win situation.

Hospital Deaths

Yeah I agree... i think charging these people with murder is a little to over reactive. I mean... if you just think of the circumstances these people were in! I bet that the people they euthanized were begging to be killed.

100F, 100% humidity, no food, no water, no power... come on. I'd probably want to be killed in conditions like that.

Wow. What I want to know is if they asked the patients if they wanted euthanized.

The irony of this whole thing is that government officials are responsible for FAR more deaths than this one doctor and 3 nurses. Yet we're not criminaly charging any government officials for the fuc*k ups during Katrina. No one has even been held civilally liable! But somehow the same government officials think they have the moral right to sit up in their ivory towers and judge these medical professionals!?! By all rights, they could have just LEFT these people to die. There's no legal binding document a doctor or nurse signs to take care of a patient when he himself is in imminent danger. Instead they stayed in that shi*thole hospital and helped people.

I mean... no one thought they were going to get rescued. After 5 days of that I'd give up hope too. The whole thing is just unfair. Before we start judging emergency responders for how they reacted, we ought to be judging and trying those who were in charge of the entire situation.

It's bullshi*t and I think it's motivated by religious zealots like this DA. Mother fuc*ker. I have it in mind to go find this assh*at and beat the living shi*t out of him.

You know, I'm not one to really place heavy blame on anyone except the local government. I don't blame Federal response to it as much. I definately don't blame Bush on it.

The main difference is that these people actually injected them anticipating death. The government officials were not organized nor prepared.

Truly, I feel it's the local residents main fault, then the local, state, then Federal. The local government and state did nothing.. it was all put the on Federal System to rescue them, which is bullshit.

Hospitals should now be required to have terminally ill patients sign an agreement that if a national castatrophe happens in which the situations looks grim or, after say 5 days of health and unable to transport, the patients can be.. well, be euthanized.

They were unable to help the patients any further. They could have left them to drown or die from the heat. They gave them probably the best way of dying peacefully. These doctors and nurses should hold their heads high. They see suffering every day and know when enough is enough, whereas the morons who are pissed off about it don't know first hand about the daily suffereing or being put into the position to take another's life.

It's become a crime in this country to be a good samaritan.