An undated photo, released by the Louisiana Attorney General's Office, of Dr. Anna Pou.
Later today, on All Things Considered, NPR's Robert Siegel will speak to Sheri Fink, a staff reporter at ProPublica, "an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest."
This weekend, her article, "The Deadly Choices at Memorial" — accompanied by some amazing photographs by Paolo Pellegrin — will run in The New York Times Magazine.
Fink digs into what happened at the Memorial Medical Center in Uptown New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit the city:
The hurricane knocked out power and running water and sent the temperatures inside above 100 degrees. Still, investigators 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.
"Mortuary workers eventually carried 45 corpses from Memorial, more than from any comparable-size hospital in the drowned city," she continues.
In 2006, NPR's Carrie Kahn reviewed secret court documents about these "mercy killings." (You can listen to her report here.)
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