The Article that Nick Gaffney Forwarded Me

Hope you've had a nice holiday, eh?

An excerpt from a NY Times Magazine article a friend forwarded me a few weeks back that I'm just now getting around to reading:

Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices
By SHERI FINK
Published: August 25, 2009

The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel’s wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodies lay motionless on low cots and on the ground, shrouded in white sheets. Here, a wisp of gray hair peeked out. There, a knee was flung akimbo. A pallid hand reached across a blue gown.

Within days, the grisly tableau became the focus of an investigation into what happened when the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina marooned Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans. The hurricane knocked out power and running water and sent the temperatures inside above 100 degrees. Still, investigators were surprised at the number of bodies in the makeshift morgue and were stunned when health care workers charged that a well-regarded doctor and two respected nurses had hastened the deaths of some patients by injecting them with lethal doses of drugs...

Ooh!, looks like a good one, uh? Nicko really knows what we likes, mmm?

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE.