Did New Orleans hospital staff euthanize patients?

[abcdefz]

CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/12/katrina.hospital/index.html)

That's a pretty horrifying situation. I feel really sorry for medical staff being put in that position. It's the extreme end of what someone signs on for as a medical practicioner, certainly, but it sounds like some stuff went on more for some staff members' comfort than the patients' welfare.

[YoungRemy]

apparantly, the State of Louisiana is doing autopsies on all that died in a New Orleans hospital or nursing home during the week that Katrina left doctors and patients stranded, so we will certainly know whether any "mercy killings" went down...

[abcdefz]

It's such a tricky situation. I've been told that, during disasters, staffs like this are actually trained to do a sort of triage and separate the hopeless, even while still living. So if there were unanimous approval, I guess I could understand how it would be decided to perform euthanasia.

My problem with it is that there were staff members who didn't approve, including doctors on duty; so some other staff members possibly just wrested authority from people in authority who wanted to continue caring for living patients. If so: very, very not cool.