La. doctors outraged at murder accusation
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To Louisiana's attorney general, the doctor and two nurses arrested this past week are murderers. But many in the medical community are outraged at the arrests, saying the three caregivers are heroes who faced unimaginable horrors as Hurricane Katrina flooded the city and trapped them and their patients.
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A doctor accused of murdering four critically ill hospital patients with injections in the harrowing days after Hurricane Katrina is defending herself publicly for the first time, saying in a TV interview that she gave them drugs simply to ease their pain.
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By Justin Davenport, Oliver Finegold And Bo Wilson, Evening Standard. A former mental patient was being questioned today after the knife rampage which left one man dead and five other people seriously injured.
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LOS ANGELES -- The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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LOS ANGELES -- The proposed closure of the trauma center at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is alarming doctors, police, paramedics and some politicians.
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Two detectives who investigated one man's sexual abuse claims against a now-defrocked priest testified that they found evidence of other victims &#151; an accusation that drew howls from defense attorneys.
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MORE than 100 of Harold Shipman&#39;s murders could have been prevented if two hospital doctors had reported glaring concerns about the serial killer GP.
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LOS ANGELES - The news that Los Angeles County will be getting a new trauma center didn&#39;t satisfy some South Los Angeles residents.
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A New Orleans grand jury will decide if a doctor and two nurses intentionally killed patients with injections before the hospital was evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said Tuesday.
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Prosecutors Thursday attacked a witness critical to Scott Peterson's defense who nervously conceded he made an assumption as he calculated when Laci Peterson's fetus died.
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Dr. Brian Stidham was still in his surgical scrubs when a pair of janitors found him stabbed to death in the parking lot outside his practice, his Lexus gone. Was it robbery? A carjacking? Nothing that ordinary, investigators say. Instead, they say, it was a hit set up by another doctor with whom Stidham was once in practice.
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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Threats against a lawyer before she was murdered were not properly dealt with, the Police Ombudsman says.
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The coroner examining the post-Katrina deaths of four critically ill hospital patients said he cannot declare the deaths homicides
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CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 20 -- The owners of a nursing home where 35 patients died after Hurricane Katrina were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty to the infirm.
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A woman waiting for three biopsy tests to be re-examined says she is appalled at what has happened.
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The New York City chief medical examinerâs office blamed the âabuse of prescription medicationsâ in the actorâs death.