In July 2006, a New Orleans physician, Anna Pou, and two nurses,Lori Budo and Cheri Landry, were arrested and accused of thesecond-degree murder of four patients at Memorial Medical Centerin 2005, 4 days after Hurricane Katrina. According to CharlesFoti, Jr., the Louisiana attorney general, the patients, rangingfrom 61 to 90 years of age, had been injected with a combinationof morphine and midazolam that had killed them. Some observershave noted that these drugs are commonly given to reduce painand anxiety, arguing that their administration probably representedan attempt to calm seriously ill patients . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Curiel is the director of the San Antonio Cancer Institute and the scientific director at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center — both in San Antonio, TX.
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