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Inquiry into Hospital Deaths Widens

Atlas Blogged has been getting a lot of visitors lately from people who are doing web searches about Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, where 45 dead bodies were discovered floating in the flooded first floor a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit the area. Shortly after the bodies were found, it was alleged that patients there were euthenised before medical workers evacuated. It has been suggested to me by friends, associates, and fellow bloggers that our previous article on the topic (How Did They Die?) was sensationalist and irresponsible, since the source was the Daily Mail (folks, "tabloid" is only derogatory in the US... the Mail is respectable).
The story was not carried by the MSM, so it couldn't have been true. I have been wondering what ever happened to the story - for a time there was precious little on it - but that may be changing. Curious about the number of people looking into the story (and stumbing across us) lately, I found that MSM outlets are suddenly ablaze with the story (check GoogleNews)

A state probe into reports that critically ill patients were left to die or were euthanized at a New Orleans hospital during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has broadened to include an estimated 215 deaths at nursing homes and hospitals across the area, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The Louisiana attorney general's office, which is overseeing the inquiry, has launched a "monumental investigation" that will examine what happened to patients and residents at 19 hospitals and nursing homes, spokeswoman Kris Wartelle said. The expansion of the probe -- which now includes 21 percent of the 1,035 Louisiana deaths linked to the hurricane Aug. 29 -- comes after a doctor at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center alleged that some of the 45 patients who died there might have been euthanized to end their suffering.

(Indianapolis Star)

Dr. Bryant King, who was at Memorial during the period of time in question, told CNN that while he did not witness any acts of euthanasia, "most people know something happened that shouldn't have happened."

CNN disclosed that when Dr. King saw a physician with a handful of syringes approaching patients, he "decided he would have no part of what he believed was about to happen,” and left the hospital.

Another member of the hospital’s medical staff, nurse manager Fran Butler, told CNN: "Did they say to put people out of their misery? Yes.”
(NewsMax)

Will this see the light of day? Will the families of the dead know exactly how their loved ones died? We will be watching the investigation closely...