Several other forensic experts, including Cyril Wecht, James Young, and Michael Baden, reviewed the reports on the nine suspicious LifeCare facility deaths. The pathologist found that all four patients died by way of homicide as a result of human intervention. (61), Ireatha Watson (89), Rose Savoie (90), and Hollis Alford (66). A forensic pathologist was hired to go over the toxicology reports of four of the nine patients, including Emmett Everett Sr. The attorney general's office hired Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard to conduct autopsies on the nine bodies, and Minyard found significant traces of morphine in all nine. to nine possible cases of euthanasia at the facility. Photo: Apple TV+Ī lawyer for LifeCare, a long-term acute care facility that leased out space in the hospital, alerted Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti, Jr. Bryant King, he decided to board a rescue boat and leave Memorial Medical Center because he didn't want to be part of euthanizing patients. 'I'd rather be considered a person who abandoned patients than someone who aided in eliminating patients,' he told CNN's Nancy Grace.Īccording to Dr. King said that when he learned that they were going to kill patients, he boarded a rescue boat and left. in the series) told CNN that 'the discussion of euthanasia was more than just talk.' Based on conversations he had with other workers at the hospital, he publicly asserted that one or more employees had killed patients. The Five Days at Memorial true story confirms that an internist at Memorial Medical Center named Bryant King (portrayed by Cornelius Smith Jr. The levels found in the bodies were also much higher than what would normally be given for pain. Sheri Fink's New York Times Magazine article states that of the 41 bodies on which toxicology tests were performed, 23 were found to have one or both morphine and the fast-acting sedative Versed, despite only a small number of these patients having been prescribed morphine for pain. Were patients at Memorial Medical Center euthanized? Inset: In real life, deceased patients were discovered in Memorial Medical Center's second-floor chapel. Were 45 dead bodies found at Memorial Medical Center?Ībove: The moment when bodies are discovered in the miniseries. In researching the Anna Pou case, she later claimed, as she does in the Apple TV+ miniseries, that her goal was to make the patients comfortable, not to kill them. They were given morphine and the sedative midazolam (Versed). Anna Pou (portrayed by Vera Farmiga), 49, made the decision to sedate some of the LifeCare and category 3 patients. Others weighed too much to be carried up or down stairs.Īfter more than 72 hours had passed since Hurricane Katrina first struck, some of the doctors, including Dr. Doctors began to realize that it would be impossible to evacuate some of the LifeCare and severely ill (category 3) patients without machinery to stabilize them and adequate transportation to get them to the evacuation areas. They had yet to be moved to the helipad area or emergency room as resources were scarce and the staff was tiring from the constant climbing of stairs and carrying of patients. patients on the eighth floor that remained were in critical condition. While conducting the Five Days at Memorial fact-check, we learned that the LifeCare patients on the seventh floor and the I.C.U.

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