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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A state medical organization on Wednesday came out strongly in support of the Louisiana physician accused of killing four critically ill patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana's attorney general said Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses at Memorial Medical Center injected a lethal cocktail of sedatives into the four bedridden patients after determining they were too ill to be moved. The trio was arrested and faces second-degree murder charges, pending the outcome of a New Orleans grand jury investigation.
"The Louisiana State Medical Society is confident that Dr. Pou performed courageously under the most challenging and horrific conditions and made decisions in the best interest of her patients," President Dr. Floyd A. Buras said in a statement.
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