Five Days at Memorial (2022) s01e06 Episode Script
45 Dead
In the five days following Katrina,
the conditions in that hospital
In all my years of medicine
I've never seen
anything like that, ever.
So, are you saying that
the conditions are the reason
why 45 people ended up dead?
No, no, no, no. It wasn't
just the conditions.
It's not that simple.
Well, then maybe you can explain.
Well, in those conditions,
and perhaps because of those conditions,
um, decisions got made that
never should have been made.
And we should get to that.
We are still just beginning
to learn the extent
of the death and the damage
in the worst natural
disaster in US history.
Final death toll may
not be known for days,
- but it could be in the thousands.
- Please.
The neediest patients
are being airlifted out.
We got the baby up to the helipad,
and I flew with her in a
helicopter over to Baton Rouge.
Conditions worsen for
those who took shelter
- at the Superdome.
- We haven't eaten in, like, five days.
It was worse than prison.
At least in prison you
got somewhere to urinate,
and other bathroom needs.
Here, you had nothing.
This woman here has
lost her two children.
She don't know where they're at.
They don't know if she
if they're alive or dead.
- Mr. President
- Last question.
this is two weeks in.
You must have developed a
clear image at this point
of one critical thing that went
wrong in the first five days.
Oh, I think there'll be
plenty of time to analyze,
particularly, the structure
of the relationship
between government levels.
Um
What I think Congress needs
to I know Congress needs to do,
and we're doing this internally as well,
is to take a sober look at the
decision-making that went on.
Mr. President, can I
just clarify one thing?
No, no, no. Okay, thank you.
You're from New Orleans, right?
Well, a-actually, Baton
Rouge. About an hour away.
How was the storm there?
Well, it's nothing
like New Orleans, but
Well, apart from the
smoking, you're in good shape.
I can't find anything wrong.
All right. Thanks, Doc.
- All done.
- Oh.
- Hi, sir.
- Hi.
We found some photos when we
were vacuuming under the seats.
- Put 'em on the passenger seat for you.
- Oh, all right. Great. Here you go.
- Thank you, sir.
- Here. Take double.
- Butch.
- Hey.
- Can I get you something to drink?
- Oh, no, I'm good, Emma. Thank you, dear.
Fellas, how are you?
So what'd he say?
Well, there's nothing
wrong with me. Apparently.
Well, that's good.
Hey how about just you
and me go out to dinner tonight?
Butch I think I'd just rather
stay with the family, if that's okay?
Hey, whatever you want.
What, uh, what is the plan here?
Well, you got your choice of
eight different casseroles.
Oh. Shit.
Oh, God. One One second, Lin.
Arthur Schafer.
Yeah, I'll hold.
Yes, sir.
Ah, thank you, sir.
We're, uh
We're doing okay. Yep.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well, I-I'm in Atlanta with my family,
but I can meet you
the day after tomorrow?
Is it No, no, that's no problem.
All right. Okay, well, see you then.
Yes, sir.
The attorney general will see you now.
Thank you.
- Butch. Good to see you.
- You too, sir.
So, uh, how are you holding up?
Oh, you know. About as
good as could be expected.
But depends on the day.
I do know. My own father
passed in May. He was 92.
Took care of him till the very end.
Mmm.
I know it's not the same thing, but
Yeah.
Anyway.
For the two weeks since the storm,
all that's been on television
are endless stories,
horror stories, about
abuses that took place
under the color of authority.
Now, I'm interested in
looking into what happened.
Seems like there was a gross
dereliction of duty across the board.
In particular, I wanna
take a look at what happened
at Memorial Medical Center.
They found 45 dead
bodies there, you know?
- Yeah, I heard that.
- More than anywhere else.
Forty-five dead patients.
Now, does that make any sense to you?
Maybe a-at a hospital that size,
you know, given the conditions,
maybe 45 patients just succumbed.
Maybe they didn't.
Is this the office of
the general counsel?
- Yes.
- Hi.
Uh, this is Arthur Schafer
with the Louisiana State
Medicaid Fraud Unit.
Are you the Tenet general counsel?
No, but I'm an attorney at that office.
- All right, and your name is?
- Bowers. Jim Bowers.
Uh, Mr. Bowers.
Uh, we're looking into what happened
at Memorial Hospital
during the hurricane,
and we'd like to get a list from
you of all the deceased patients,
plus a copy of your disaster plan.
Okay. Um, uh, before we Uh, can
you explain your intentions here?
Well, our understanding is that
45 patients died at your hospital
during the hurricane
and in the aftermath,
and we need to understand what happened.
Are you aware of that? These deaths?
Mr. Schafer,
I'd appreciate it if you could put
whatever questions you have for us,
if you could send us those in writing.
In writing?
Okay. But you do have the records?
As I said, please put it all
in writing, and we'll respond.
Well, when can we expect you to respond?
Uh, as soon as we can.
I'm sorry, I've got
another call. Thank you.
- Virginia.
- Butch.
Hey! Thanks for making the time.
So, how's Kevin?
He's good. Thinks I work too much,
which, of course, is true.
Yeah.
I was very sorry to hear about Shelly.
Can't even imagine.
Thanks.
How are you and Linda doing?
Well, she's still with her
family out in Atlanta, and
it's, um
Man, it's hard. You know,
it comes and goes in waves.
I'm really glad to be back at work,
have some place to put my focus.
Yeah.
How about you? How
are all the fraudsters?
Oh, you know, they're still out there,
stealing away a nickel at a time.
Till they run up against you.
Yeah, well, that's the thing. 'Cause
people lie, but numbers never do.
Uh-huh.
So, Charles Foti, he's
asked me to look into the
the deaths at Memorial
Medical Center in New Orleans.
I read about that.
Forty-five dead bodies?
Yeah. Our office, we have to
characterize each of these deaths.
It's gonna be a lot of work.
Just finding the people who are
scattered everywhere after the storm
is gonna be a nightmare.
You're viewing these as crimes?
Uh, it's a lot of deaths, but you
have to look at the conditions.
I mean, things were pretty horrific.
Can you imagine being a doctor or
nurse in the middle of all that?
What they did, that was incredible.
Yeah, I agree.
But there's a couple of
things that are wonky here.
So, I called this attorney at Tenet.
They're the ones who own the place,
you know, changed the
name from "Baptist."
Just a routine information request,
but he starts giving me the runaround.
Says I have to fax him all
of my requests in writing,
and then he faxes me
back all this other stuff.
Corporate statement. Articles about
the heroism of the medical workers.
And then he says that he can't
locate any of the medical records
that I asked him for.
And then I get this over the transom.
It's a It's from a LifeCare attorney.
Now, LifeCare's this
this company that runs a
facility inside Memorial,
so this hospital
within a hospital, so
"Although we are just beginning
to collect the relevant facts,
we have information
that the patients "
meaning, their patients who died,
the LifeCare patients, right,
" were administered morphine
by the physician Dr. Anna Pou,
whom we believe is not
an employee of LifeCare,
at a time when it appeared the patients
could not be successfully evacuated."
So they're suggesting that
some of their patients' lives
may have been ended?
Who's this Dr. Pou?
- I don't know yet.
- Well, we need to find her.
I'd assume she was working at Memorial.
And it'd be very helpful to get ahold
of those LifeCare patient records.
Now, Virginia, I know
you're a forensic accountant,
and this may be a little broader
than the normal scope of your cases,
but, man, I need your
analytical mind on this.
This is like a like a jigsaw
puzzle with a thousand pieces
- that are all the same color.
- Then get chewed up by the dog.
Exactly. So, I was hoping that
Man, I would love it, in fact,
if you would be willing
to work on this with me.
Isn't that what we're doing?
How'd y'all survive the storm?
You and your husband.
Your house is okay?
We live uptown on high ground.
You know, one block was dry,
one block was underwater,
but we got lucky.
- That's great to hear.
- Hmm.
So, Anna, uh
given that Memorial's not gonna
be reopening any time soon,
um, we would love it if you
would consider joining us at LSU.
That is, if you wouldn't
mind spending a few nights
a week up in Baton Rouge.
I'd commute to Tennessee if
it meant getting back to work.
Well, we're closer than that, and
we have a better football team.
True. That's true.
Hell, we all think you're one of the
best surgeons in the entire state.
Thank you for saying that.
So, when things settle
down in a couple of months,
we can talk about it.
No. I'm saying yes.
I'm ready to start now.
You are?
Yes. Sure. Yes, I
wanna get back to work.
Well, that is beyond what I, uh
That is wonderful.
- That is wonderful.
- Good.
Ch-Cheers to that. I am thrilled.
Thank you. I'm thrilled too.
Good morning, y'all. I'm
Callie Fredricks from Tenet.
Thanks for coming all the way
out here to go to work today
and for joining our call team.
Okay, so, on the table
here are your face sheets,
one for each of the deceased patients.
Your names are on the
ones you've been assigned.
You all got your calling
instruction packets, right?
Yes, ma'am. Yes.
Okay, so, just to reiterate,
only speak in general
terms, never give an opinion.
The loved ones are usually
angry, and that's not surprising.
Most of 'em have no information
yet about their loved ones,
only what they've seen on the news.
Excuse me.
No one from Tenet has spoken
to any of the family members?
They may have tried to call in,
but no one's had the
information to give them yet, no.
So, most importantly, just tell
the family members the truth.
That the patients may have died
due to lack of electricity
or high temperatures.
Okay? Okay.
This is Susan Mulderick.
I am a supervisor at
Memorial Medical Center,
and I'm calling about your
mother, Shirley Broussard.
Finally. I've been
trying to reach anyone.
Unfortunately, Miss Broussard,
I am very sorry to say that your
mother, uh, died at the hospital
between the hurricane and the
evacuation of patients from the facility.
I had this weird hope
that maybe she was
Oh, my God.
I'm so sorry this took two weeks.
"Your loved one was
cared for throughout."
"Your loved one was
identified and shrouded,
and placed in our chapel area."
"Your loved one was
treated with dignity."
I don't understand.
Why wasn't she evacuated
ahead of the storm?
Uh, that was based on
the risk to the patient.
Other patients got out.
What was her risk?
I'm sorry. I-I don't have
that specific information.
The state retrieved your loved one
and brought him to the
parish coroner's office.
The cause of death will
be identified, and a
death certificate
will be made available.
State officials will then contact you.
I am very sorry.
We are so sorry.
Goodbye.
Okay. Goodbye.
There was some patients
there that, uh
um, were critically ill,
and regardless of the
storm, uh, had, uh
had the orders of "do not resuscitate."
In other words, if they died,
to allow them to die naturally,
and not to, uh, use any heroic
mes methods to resuscitate them.
Um, we all did everything
we could within our power
to give the best treatment to
the patients in the hospital
and make them comfortable.
Yeah, she comes across very well.
Maybe a little too well.
Didn't she seem a little unemotional
just a few days after all those deaths?
She's a doctor. She's
just being professional.
Well, this notion
that doctors and nurses
would intentionally kill their patients,
that just seems nuts.
Yeah. I did follow up with Tenet
about getting those medical records.
And?
They were nothing but
vague about where they are.
Well, maybe we need to subpoena
them, or at least threaten that.
- I got a better idea.
- What's that?
Why don't we drive down to
New Orleans and go to Memorial?
Don't you wanna see the
place with your own eyes?
Plus, maybe we'll get lucky and
find those records ourselves.
Hey. Mind if I smoke?
Actually, I do. I hate
the smell on my clothes.
Ah, man. Remember when you used
to be able to smoke on a plane?
I remember when I was, like, 12,
I was flying to California
to go to Disneyland.
And I was sitting in
the no-smoking section,
which was absolutely ridiculous,
because I still ingested,
like, two packs of smoke.
Well, at least you were
going to Disneyland.
That's true.
Hey, you ever think about quitting?
Oh, I think about quitting all the time.
Look at that.
I can get to it. Let
me pull it to the top.
The pictures, they don't
really do it justice, do they?
It's like getting hit by a truck.
You think you know what it's like,
but you can't really know
unless you get hit by the truck.
Can I help you?
Yeah, we're investigators with the
state attorney general's office.
We need to take a look around inside.
That's not gonna happen.
- Sorry. Pardon me?
- Not without a warrant or a hazmat suit.
You don't have a hazmat suit.
They don't have hazmat suits.
Without a hazmat suit and a
warrant, you're not going inside.
Who do y'all work for?
We're under contract at
Tenet. They own this hospital.
You have a supervisor?
Sure. Yeah. Yeah, you wanna call him?
He's just gonna tell
you the exact same thing.
- Well, come on. Let's go.
- Asshole.
I know a good place for lunch.
It'll make it worth the drive.
Hello?
- Dr. Pou?
- Yes?
My name is Liz Jarvis.
I'm a producer with CNN.
We saw your interview on Channel 2.
We hear the state's investigating
the deaths at Memorial Medical Center,
and we want to get the medical
professionals' side of the story.
Hello?
Susan, it's Anna.
Hey, Anna.
How are you doing?
Oh we're fine.
You know, my husband, Vince
and I, we're we're good.
Uh, our house made it through,
so we're we're okay.
Uh, the reason I'm calling you is
Did Did you hear that the
state's investigating Memorial?
No, I didn't hear that.
CNN just called me.
They're preparing a report on
possible euthanasia at the hospital.
They want my side of the story.
I'm not sure what I should do here.
Well, sit tight, and I'll, um
I'll have someone from
Tenet give you a call.
Okay?
Okay.
Yes, uh, Robert, this is Horace.
Have you heard the
news about the hospital?
Yeah, well, it's about
my patient, Elena Batiste.
Is she on the list of the dead?
I admitted her as a precaution.
Before the storm.
Because she was on electrical equipment.
She wasn't in any kind of
terminal distress. None.
Look, after I left, wasn't Dr.
Nadler in charge of her care
Well, then who was handling her care?
Well, then who does know?
- Hello.
- Ewing, it's Anna.
- Oh, Anna. You okay?
- Where are you?
Well, I have decamped
to a hotel in Houston.
My room has a wonderful view
of the highway and an auto mall.
Did you know that state's looking
into what happened at Memorial?
Have they contacted you?
No, state hasn't, but
the media certainly has.
Was it CNN? They want
me to do an interview.
Yes.
CNN is looking for me also,
but I don't want nothing
to do with those people.
Look
The issue we're dealing with here
when it comes to medical ethics,
people have opinions all over the map
and I don't wanna be
stuck in the middle of it.
Then what do you suggest I do here?
Oh, I'm not the person to ask.
But if it was me, I'd talk to Tenet.
What I would not do is
talk to those media people.
Couple of edits, they can make
you sound however they want.
That's exactly right.
Hide. That's my advice. Hide.
Hey, are you Tiana Colburn?
And you are?
Arthur Schafer, with the
State Medicaid Fraud Unit.
How'd you find me?
Uh, your neighbor down the block
said you're up here at your mom's.
You know, this block, the red door.
Uh, man, I'm sorry about all this.
Man, it's all her stuff.
You know, her whole life.
Man, it's terrible.
Well I guess
as long as we all safe.
Can I ask you a few questions?
Sure. Okay.
You're a nurse at Memorial?
I am. Well, I mean I was
before the hospital closed.
Now, did you work with Dr. Anna Pou?
I'm a surgical nurse so I did
a lot of her surgeries, yeah.
Right. Were you with her, you know,
working with her after
the hospital flooded?
At first, but then I left.
Which was not my plan.
Uh, I was helping one
of the neonates and, uh,
ended up in a helicopter.
Wait, you
I saw you on the news.
You saved that baby. That was you.
Oh, yeah. That was me.
That was heroic.
Nah I just did what anybody would do.
No, no, no, no. That
was special what you did.
Thank you.
Sorry. Um
My daughter died recently
on account of, uh
The doctors who cared for her had
overprescribed her medications.
I'm I'm sorry.
That's That's terrible.
Yeah, I guess I can't help
but thinking that if
that if her doctors were more like you,
she'd be alive right now.
I wrote Mr. Miller a new prescription.
So if there are any
changes in his condition,
will you please let me know,
okay? And just call my cell.
Excuse me.
- Hello?
- Hello. Is this Dr. Pou?
- Yes.
- This is Steven Campanini.
I'm the communication
director for Tenet.
Are you anywhere near a landline?
Uh, I can go to my office.
Uh, please. And call me back.
My number should be on your screen.
- Dr. Pou.
- I'm on a landline.
Hang on a minute. I've got
our assistant general counsel,
Audrey Andrews, on the line with me.
Hello, Dr. Pou.
Hello. Thank you for getting in touch.
Of course.
Um, I understand the events at
Memorial are under investigation.
Yes, that's right.
I was hoping for some
guidance and advice.
Dr. Pou, it would be very helpful
if you could, from your perspective,
walk us through the
events at the hospital.
Starting from when the hurricane hit.
Sure, um
So, we were we were struggling
to provide patient care, you know?
There was, uh, only
emergency power, you know.
There was no air-conditioning. I
can't even tell you how terrible.
It was
By the end, there was just chaos.
We were under mandatory evacuation.
Um, everyone was scrambling to get out.
Dr. Pou, I want to zero in
a little more specifically on
what happened on that
fifth and final day.
Well, before we do that
I was wondering if you could explain
how you're gonna be
providing for my defense.
You know, if it comes to that.
I can't give you any advice
on your representation.
Excuse me.
I work for Tenet. Not for
any of the individual doctors.
In fact, I'd strongly advise
you to get your own attorney.
Okay, now getting back to
that morning, Thursday
No.
No, I
I'm not gonna answer any
more of your questions
before I get my own lawyers. Goodbye.
So, what happens next?
What do we do here?
Well, in New Orleans, it's a city,
but really it's just a small town.
Everything you say and do is
gonna be observed and picked over.
You can't be talking to
anybody about what went on.
All right? Certainly not the
media. No more interviews
I don't want to do any more interviews.
And even your husband, um, Vince?
Yes, Vince.
Even Vince is gonna have to be
kept in the dark a little bit here.
What you and I talk about is
gonna just be between you and me.
Understood.
Um.
Look, I just want you to know one
thing before we go any further.
I didn't do anything wrong.
No, I know. I know
that. I know that. I
I I knew of your dad.
He was, uh he
was an excellent doctor.
No, listen, your
reputation is impeccable.
So what do we do? Just sit
around and wait until it's ruined?
No, we're not just gonna
sit back on defense here.
- Meaning?
- Leave that to me.
For now, I don't want you to worry.
I mean, I know you're gonna
worry, but, I promise you, Anna,
I am gonna take care of you.
I'm curious, Mrs. Robichaux,
why the LifeCare lawyers
wanted you to talk to us.
Because I believe
what happened what you're
looking into, those deaths
they weren't accidental.
Do you want to tell us what happened?
Well, first of all
the conditions in the
hospital were, uh
horrible.
I mean, just beyond belief.
It was chaos.
You know, nobody knew what was going on.
There was no power for two days.
It was dark.
The air was was like a furnace.
The stench of death was everywhere.
Especially on the last day.
I was called up to a
meeting at LifeCare.
We're getting all the
patients out that we can.
So, is Some people
are not getting out?
The plan is to not leave
any living patients behind.
What about Emmett Everett?
He's one of our patients.
He's awake. He's alert.
I'm not familiar with all
your patients. That's Dr. Pou.
You should ask her.
So I went over and I talked to Dr. Pou.
Excuse me. I'm Diane Robichaux.
- I run LifeCare here at this facility.
- Hi.
We were talking about Emmett.
He's paralyzed. Weighs,
what, 380 pounds?
About.
Yeah, how's he holding up?
Um, he's conscious and aware,
if that's what you mean.
I didn't realize any of
the patients were aware.
Yes.
How many people do you think
it would take to move him?
I I don't know. I have no idea.
We'd have to go down the stairs.
That's seven flights in the dark.
Across the hospital, through
the hole in the machine room.
And, frankly, I don't
even know if he would fit.
Then he'd be driven up to
the top to the parking garage
and carried up the narrow
steps to the helipad.
Well I'm sure there's a way to do it.
It has been a struggle
with people far easier to manage.
I'm sorry, wh
So, what are we talking about?
She said
"Some of these patients,
they're just not gonna survive."
Did Dr. Pou mean she
was gonna euthanize him?
The word "euthanize" was never used,
but I'm fairly certain that's
what happened to him in the end.
Did Dr. Pou Did she
say what her plan was?
She pulled me aside
to let me off the hook.
I'm taking full
responsibility for all this.
I don't want anybody worrying
about losing their license.
As if that's what I cared about.
What happened then?
Uh, we turned the floor over to Pou
and the two nurses she had with her.
Do you know who they
were, these two nurses?
No.
I didn't even know 'em.
I believe in my heart that
my patients were killed.
And even though I didn't
participate in it
I didn't do enough to stop it.
So, what do you think?
What I think is that she
didn't actually hear anybody
directing patients to be euthanized.
Could just be a case
of misunderstanding.
Look, given the dire circumstances,
it seems likely that these critical
care patients had just died.
Or at the very worst,
misprescribed medications.
I just can't believe that the staff
would intentionally kill patients.
I just can't fathom that.
Me either.
We need to talk to some
more people at LifeCare.
Get a better handle on what happened.
See what I can set up.
PP is steady.
More inferior exposure, please.
- Yes, Dr. Pou.
- Thank you.
Significant adenopathy. Those
nodes are gonna have to go too.
Noted.
Wake up, Allyson.
Wake up.
Hey. How are you doing?
Hey, Doc.
Hi.
It's good news. We got all of it out.
We're sending the tissue
samples to pathology,
but I don't think
there's any more tumor.
Are you serious?
You're gonna be great.
Is your family out there?
I'll let them know.
Um, Ms. Mendez, you were the
nurse executive for LifeCare?
That's right, yes.
Let's jump right to the morning
of Thursday, September 1st.
That was your last day
at the hospital, right?
Yes, it was.
What do you remember about that day?
Um, the helicopters.
And the smell.
The fumes from the helipad
were wafting inside.
It was overwhelming.
The whole thing reminded me of
something I'd seen on TV once.
What was that?
The Fall of Saigon.
Ms. Johnson, what was
your job at LifeCare?
And it's Kristy, yeah,
with a "K"? Is that
Yes. K-R-I-S-T-Y.
I was the physical medicine
director, which means I supervised
all the rehabilitation and
therapy programs at LifeCare.
Can you tell us what you
remember about that last day,
Thursday, at the hospital?
I remember we had a
meeting with Susan Mulderick
and she was saying she didn't think
the LifeCare patients
were gonna make it.
Mulderick said that?
Yes, I think so.
Do you know why?
The conditions were total chaos,
and we were under orders to get out.
Now, my guess is, I don't
know this for a fact,
they didn't want to leave
patients alone and behind
to suffer in a deserted hospital
maybe for days before they died.
So, that morning, what'd you do?
The first thing I always did.
Go check on the patients.
They looked bad.
Some were unconscious and
others were frothing at the mouth.
Some were breathing the way
you breath before you die.
There was no food.
No fresh water.
People were just trying to get out.
One. Can anybody take one?
I was helping one of
my patient's daughters,
Angela McManus, get onto a boat.
You need to get yourself somewhere
safe for your mother, okay?
You need to survive for her.
That's when Dr. Pou came over
These patients
they're probably not gonna survive.
I'm amazed we've kept the
sickest ones alive for this long.
The decision's been made
to administer lethal doses.
Did she say specifically what drugs?
She listed them off, but
I was so shocked, I
I asked her to repeat them
and she repeated them and
Now, I don't
Morphine was one of them.
What happened after that?
I heard Therese Mendez calling my name.
She sounded really upset.
Kristy. Kristy, Kristy,
come on. We got to go back.
We went to Emmett Everett's room
because that's where Dr. Pou was.
There's no way we can get him out.
What happened then?
She wanted somebody to sedate him.
You You heard her say that?
Pou asked for someone to sedate him?
Ms. Johnson.
She might have.
I'm not sure if I heard it directly
from her or from somebody else.
But I did hear her say,
"Y'all need to be evacuated. The
patients are in our care now."
Did you see her do anything
to any of your patients?
When I was leaving, I saw
her walking down the hall.
She looked really nervous to me.
She was with these two nurses.
Did you see her administer
drugs to any of the patients?
Did you see anything else?
No.
We left.
Mr. Nakamaru, as the
pharmacist on that last day,
did Dr. Pou tell you what
the plan was gonna be?
She told me patients would
be given lethal doses.
You heard her say that,
"Lethal doses would be given"?
Those exact words.
That's my recollection.
What happened then?
I asked her what kind of medications
she would give the patients.
She then showed me vials
of morphine and Versed,
which is a surgical sedative.
She asked me for supplies,
including syringes and
vials of sterile salt water.
Sterile salt water?
It's what we used to chase drugs
through intravenous catheters
into patient's bloodstreams.
So, as a pharmacist, did you
give her the stuff she requested?
Yes, I did.
Well, did you see her, or the
nurses, administer the drugs?
I saw them draw up the
drugs into syringes.
But I didn't see them actually
inject the patients. No.
Did you see anything else?
Yeah, afterwards.
I saw Dr. Pou coming
out of one of the rooms.
She had put the syringes in
a clear plastic waste bag.
Then Pou asked me something.
What was that?
She asked me to check on the patients
and pull the sheets over
the ones who had died.
You believe
In my opinion, there's no
other conclusion you could draw.
Those patients were murdered.
the conditions in that hospital
In all my years of medicine
I've never seen
anything like that, ever.
So, are you saying that
the conditions are the reason
why 45 people ended up dead?
No, no, no, no. It wasn't
just the conditions.
It's not that simple.
Well, then maybe you can explain.
Well, in those conditions,
and perhaps because of those conditions,
um, decisions got made that
never should have been made.
And we should get to that.
We are still just beginning
to learn the extent
of the death and the damage
in the worst natural
disaster in US history.
Final death toll may
not be known for days,
- but it could be in the thousands.
- Please.
The neediest patients
are being airlifted out.
We got the baby up to the helipad,
and I flew with her in a
helicopter over to Baton Rouge.
Conditions worsen for
those who took shelter
- at the Superdome.
- We haven't eaten in, like, five days.
It was worse than prison.
At least in prison you
got somewhere to urinate,
and other bathroom needs.
Here, you had nothing.
This woman here has
lost her two children.
She don't know where they're at.
They don't know if she
if they're alive or dead.
- Mr. President
- Last question.
this is two weeks in.
You must have developed a
clear image at this point
of one critical thing that went
wrong in the first five days.
Oh, I think there'll be
plenty of time to analyze,
particularly, the structure
of the relationship
between government levels.
Um
What I think Congress needs
to I know Congress needs to do,
and we're doing this internally as well,
is to take a sober look at the
decision-making that went on.
Mr. President, can I
just clarify one thing?
No, no, no. Okay, thank you.
You're from New Orleans, right?
Well, a-actually, Baton
Rouge. About an hour away.
How was the storm there?
Well, it's nothing
like New Orleans, but
Well, apart from the
smoking, you're in good shape.
I can't find anything wrong.
All right. Thanks, Doc.
- All done.
- Oh.
- Hi, sir.
- Hi.
We found some photos when we
were vacuuming under the seats.
- Put 'em on the passenger seat for you.
- Oh, all right. Great. Here you go.
- Thank you, sir.
- Here. Take double.
- Butch.
- Hey.
- Can I get you something to drink?
- Oh, no, I'm good, Emma. Thank you, dear.
Fellas, how are you?
So what'd he say?
Well, there's nothing
wrong with me. Apparently.
Well, that's good.
Hey how about just you
and me go out to dinner tonight?
Butch I think I'd just rather
stay with the family, if that's okay?
Hey, whatever you want.
What, uh, what is the plan here?
Well, you got your choice of
eight different casseroles.
Oh. Shit.
Oh, God. One One second, Lin.
Arthur Schafer.
Yeah, I'll hold.
Yes, sir.
Ah, thank you, sir.
We're, uh
We're doing okay. Yep.
Well, I appreciate that.
Well, I-I'm in Atlanta with my family,
but I can meet you
the day after tomorrow?
Is it No, no, that's no problem.
All right. Okay, well, see you then.
Yes, sir.
The attorney general will see you now.
Thank you.
- Butch. Good to see you.
- You too, sir.
So, uh, how are you holding up?
Oh, you know. About as
good as could be expected.
But depends on the day.
I do know. My own father
passed in May. He was 92.
Took care of him till the very end.
Mmm.
I know it's not the same thing, but
Yeah.
Anyway.
For the two weeks since the storm,
all that's been on television
are endless stories,
horror stories, about
abuses that took place
under the color of authority.
Now, I'm interested in
looking into what happened.
Seems like there was a gross
dereliction of duty across the board.
In particular, I wanna
take a look at what happened
at Memorial Medical Center.
They found 45 dead
bodies there, you know?
- Yeah, I heard that.
- More than anywhere else.
Forty-five dead patients.
Now, does that make any sense to you?
Maybe a-at a hospital that size,
you know, given the conditions,
maybe 45 patients just succumbed.
Maybe they didn't.
Is this the office of
the general counsel?
- Yes.
- Hi.
Uh, this is Arthur Schafer
with the Louisiana State
Medicaid Fraud Unit.
Are you the Tenet general counsel?
No, but I'm an attorney at that office.
- All right, and your name is?
- Bowers. Jim Bowers.
Uh, Mr. Bowers.
Uh, we're looking into what happened
at Memorial Hospital
during the hurricane,
and we'd like to get a list from
you of all the deceased patients,
plus a copy of your disaster plan.
Okay. Um, uh, before we Uh, can
you explain your intentions here?
Well, our understanding is that
45 patients died at your hospital
during the hurricane
and in the aftermath,
and we need to understand what happened.
Are you aware of that? These deaths?
Mr. Schafer,
I'd appreciate it if you could put
whatever questions you have for us,
if you could send us those in writing.
In writing?
Okay. But you do have the records?
As I said, please put it all
in writing, and we'll respond.
Well, when can we expect you to respond?
Uh, as soon as we can.
I'm sorry, I've got
another call. Thank you.
- Virginia.
- Butch.
Hey! Thanks for making the time.
So, how's Kevin?
He's good. Thinks I work too much,
which, of course, is true.
Yeah.
I was very sorry to hear about Shelly.
Can't even imagine.
Thanks.
How are you and Linda doing?
Well, she's still with her
family out in Atlanta, and
it's, um
Man, it's hard. You know,
it comes and goes in waves.
I'm really glad to be back at work,
have some place to put my focus.
Yeah.
How about you? How
are all the fraudsters?
Oh, you know, they're still out there,
stealing away a nickel at a time.
Till they run up against you.
Yeah, well, that's the thing. 'Cause
people lie, but numbers never do.
Uh-huh.
So, Charles Foti, he's
asked me to look into the
the deaths at Memorial
Medical Center in New Orleans.
I read about that.
Forty-five dead bodies?
Yeah. Our office, we have to
characterize each of these deaths.
It's gonna be a lot of work.
Just finding the people who are
scattered everywhere after the storm
is gonna be a nightmare.
You're viewing these as crimes?
Uh, it's a lot of deaths, but you
have to look at the conditions.
I mean, things were pretty horrific.
Can you imagine being a doctor or
nurse in the middle of all that?
What they did, that was incredible.
Yeah, I agree.
But there's a couple of
things that are wonky here.
So, I called this attorney at Tenet.
They're the ones who own the place,
you know, changed the
name from "Baptist."
Just a routine information request,
but he starts giving me the runaround.
Says I have to fax him all
of my requests in writing,
and then he faxes me
back all this other stuff.
Corporate statement. Articles about
the heroism of the medical workers.
And then he says that he can't
locate any of the medical records
that I asked him for.
And then I get this over the transom.
It's a It's from a LifeCare attorney.
Now, LifeCare's this
this company that runs a
facility inside Memorial,
so this hospital
within a hospital, so
"Although we are just beginning
to collect the relevant facts,
we have information
that the patients "
meaning, their patients who died,
the LifeCare patients, right,
" were administered morphine
by the physician Dr. Anna Pou,
whom we believe is not
an employee of LifeCare,
at a time when it appeared the patients
could not be successfully evacuated."
So they're suggesting that
some of their patients' lives
may have been ended?
Who's this Dr. Pou?
- I don't know yet.
- Well, we need to find her.
I'd assume she was working at Memorial.
And it'd be very helpful to get ahold
of those LifeCare patient records.
Now, Virginia, I know
you're a forensic accountant,
and this may be a little broader
than the normal scope of your cases,
but, man, I need your
analytical mind on this.
This is like a like a jigsaw
puzzle with a thousand pieces
- that are all the same color.
- Then get chewed up by the dog.
Exactly. So, I was hoping that
Man, I would love it, in fact,
if you would be willing
to work on this with me.
Isn't that what we're doing?
How'd y'all survive the storm?
You and your husband.
Your house is okay?
We live uptown on high ground.
You know, one block was dry,
one block was underwater,
but we got lucky.
- That's great to hear.
- Hmm.
So, Anna, uh
given that Memorial's not gonna
be reopening any time soon,
um, we would love it if you
would consider joining us at LSU.
That is, if you wouldn't
mind spending a few nights
a week up in Baton Rouge.
I'd commute to Tennessee if
it meant getting back to work.
Well, we're closer than that, and
we have a better football team.
True. That's true.
Hell, we all think you're one of the
best surgeons in the entire state.
Thank you for saying that.
So, when things settle
down in a couple of months,
we can talk about it.
No. I'm saying yes.
I'm ready to start now.
You are?
Yes. Sure. Yes, I
wanna get back to work.
Well, that is beyond what I, uh
That is wonderful.
- That is wonderful.
- Good.
Ch-Cheers to that. I am thrilled.
Thank you. I'm thrilled too.
Good morning, y'all. I'm
Callie Fredricks from Tenet.
Thanks for coming all the way
out here to go to work today
and for joining our call team.
Okay, so, on the table
here are your face sheets,
one for each of the deceased patients.
Your names are on the
ones you've been assigned.
You all got your calling
instruction packets, right?
Yes, ma'am. Yes.
Okay, so, just to reiterate,
only speak in general
terms, never give an opinion.
The loved ones are usually
angry, and that's not surprising.
Most of 'em have no information
yet about their loved ones,
only what they've seen on the news.
Excuse me.
No one from Tenet has spoken
to any of the family members?
They may have tried to call in,
but no one's had the
information to give them yet, no.
So, most importantly, just tell
the family members the truth.
That the patients may have died
due to lack of electricity
or high temperatures.
Okay? Okay.
This is Susan Mulderick.
I am a supervisor at
Memorial Medical Center,
and I'm calling about your
mother, Shirley Broussard.
Finally. I've been
trying to reach anyone.
Unfortunately, Miss Broussard,
I am very sorry to say that your
mother, uh, died at the hospital
between the hurricane and the
evacuation of patients from the facility.
I had this weird hope
that maybe she was
Oh, my God.
I'm so sorry this took two weeks.
"Your loved one was
cared for throughout."
"Your loved one was
identified and shrouded,
and placed in our chapel area."
"Your loved one was
treated with dignity."
I don't understand.
Why wasn't she evacuated
ahead of the storm?
Uh, that was based on
the risk to the patient.
Other patients got out.
What was her risk?
I'm sorry. I-I don't have
that specific information.
The state retrieved your loved one
and brought him to the
parish coroner's office.
The cause of death will
be identified, and a
death certificate
will be made available.
State officials will then contact you.
I am very sorry.
We are so sorry.
Goodbye.
Okay. Goodbye.
There was some patients
there that, uh
um, were critically ill,
and regardless of the
storm, uh, had, uh
had the orders of "do not resuscitate."
In other words, if they died,
to allow them to die naturally,
and not to, uh, use any heroic
mes methods to resuscitate them.
Um, we all did everything
we could within our power
to give the best treatment to
the patients in the hospital
and make them comfortable.
Yeah, she comes across very well.
Maybe a little too well.
Didn't she seem a little unemotional
just a few days after all those deaths?
She's a doctor. She's
just being professional.
Well, this notion
that doctors and nurses
would intentionally kill their patients,
that just seems nuts.
Yeah. I did follow up with Tenet
about getting those medical records.
And?
They were nothing but
vague about where they are.
Well, maybe we need to subpoena
them, or at least threaten that.
- I got a better idea.
- What's that?
Why don't we drive down to
New Orleans and go to Memorial?
Don't you wanna see the
place with your own eyes?
Plus, maybe we'll get lucky and
find those records ourselves.
Hey. Mind if I smoke?
Actually, I do. I hate
the smell on my clothes.
Ah, man. Remember when you used
to be able to smoke on a plane?
I remember when I was, like, 12,
I was flying to California
to go to Disneyland.
And I was sitting in
the no-smoking section,
which was absolutely ridiculous,
because I still ingested,
like, two packs of smoke.
Well, at least you were
going to Disneyland.
That's true.
Hey, you ever think about quitting?
Oh, I think about quitting all the time.
Look at that.
I can get to it. Let
me pull it to the top.
The pictures, they don't
really do it justice, do they?
It's like getting hit by a truck.
You think you know what it's like,
but you can't really know
unless you get hit by the truck.
Can I help you?
Yeah, we're investigators with the
state attorney general's office.
We need to take a look around inside.
That's not gonna happen.
- Sorry. Pardon me?
- Not without a warrant or a hazmat suit.
You don't have a hazmat suit.
They don't have hazmat suits.
Without a hazmat suit and a
warrant, you're not going inside.
Who do y'all work for?
We're under contract at
Tenet. They own this hospital.
You have a supervisor?
Sure. Yeah. Yeah, you wanna call him?
He's just gonna tell
you the exact same thing.
- Well, come on. Let's go.
- Asshole.
I know a good place for lunch.
It'll make it worth the drive.
Hello?
- Dr. Pou?
- Yes?
My name is Liz Jarvis.
I'm a producer with CNN.
We saw your interview on Channel 2.
We hear the state's investigating
the deaths at Memorial Medical Center,
and we want to get the medical
professionals' side of the story.
Hello?
Susan, it's Anna.
Hey, Anna.
How are you doing?
Oh we're fine.
You know, my husband, Vince
and I, we're we're good.
Uh, our house made it through,
so we're we're okay.
Uh, the reason I'm calling you is
Did Did you hear that the
state's investigating Memorial?
No, I didn't hear that.
CNN just called me.
They're preparing a report on
possible euthanasia at the hospital.
They want my side of the story.
I'm not sure what I should do here.
Well, sit tight, and I'll, um
I'll have someone from
Tenet give you a call.
Okay?
Okay.
Yes, uh, Robert, this is Horace.
Have you heard the
news about the hospital?
Yeah, well, it's about
my patient, Elena Batiste.
Is she on the list of the dead?
I admitted her as a precaution.
Before the storm.
Because she was on electrical equipment.
She wasn't in any kind of
terminal distress. None.
Look, after I left, wasn't Dr.
Nadler in charge of her care
Well, then who was handling her care?
Well, then who does know?
- Hello.
- Ewing, it's Anna.
- Oh, Anna. You okay?
- Where are you?
Well, I have decamped
to a hotel in Houston.
My room has a wonderful view
of the highway and an auto mall.
Did you know that state's looking
into what happened at Memorial?
Have they contacted you?
No, state hasn't, but
the media certainly has.
Was it CNN? They want
me to do an interview.
Yes.
CNN is looking for me also,
but I don't want nothing
to do with those people.
Look
The issue we're dealing with here
when it comes to medical ethics,
people have opinions all over the map
and I don't wanna be
stuck in the middle of it.
Then what do you suggest I do here?
Oh, I'm not the person to ask.
But if it was me, I'd talk to Tenet.
What I would not do is
talk to those media people.
Couple of edits, they can make
you sound however they want.
That's exactly right.
Hide. That's my advice. Hide.
Hey, are you Tiana Colburn?
And you are?
Arthur Schafer, with the
State Medicaid Fraud Unit.
How'd you find me?
Uh, your neighbor down the block
said you're up here at your mom's.
You know, this block, the red door.
Uh, man, I'm sorry about all this.
Man, it's all her stuff.
You know, her whole life.
Man, it's terrible.
Well I guess
as long as we all safe.
Can I ask you a few questions?
Sure. Okay.
You're a nurse at Memorial?
I am. Well, I mean I was
before the hospital closed.
Now, did you work with Dr. Anna Pou?
I'm a surgical nurse so I did
a lot of her surgeries, yeah.
Right. Were you with her, you know,
working with her after
the hospital flooded?
At first, but then I left.
Which was not my plan.
Uh, I was helping one
of the neonates and, uh,
ended up in a helicopter.
Wait, you
I saw you on the news.
You saved that baby. That was you.
Oh, yeah. That was me.
That was heroic.
Nah I just did what anybody would do.
No, no, no, no. That
was special what you did.
Thank you.
Sorry. Um
My daughter died recently
on account of, uh
The doctors who cared for her had
overprescribed her medications.
I'm I'm sorry.
That's That's terrible.
Yeah, I guess I can't help
but thinking that if
that if her doctors were more like you,
she'd be alive right now.
I wrote Mr. Miller a new prescription.
So if there are any
changes in his condition,
will you please let me know,
okay? And just call my cell.
Excuse me.
- Hello?
- Hello. Is this Dr. Pou?
- Yes.
- This is Steven Campanini.
I'm the communication
director for Tenet.
Are you anywhere near a landline?
Uh, I can go to my office.
Uh, please. And call me back.
My number should be on your screen.
- Dr. Pou.
- I'm on a landline.
Hang on a minute. I've got
our assistant general counsel,
Audrey Andrews, on the line with me.
Hello, Dr. Pou.
Hello. Thank you for getting in touch.
Of course.
Um, I understand the events at
Memorial are under investigation.
Yes, that's right.
I was hoping for some
guidance and advice.
Dr. Pou, it would be very helpful
if you could, from your perspective,
walk us through the
events at the hospital.
Starting from when the hurricane hit.
Sure, um
So, we were we were struggling
to provide patient care, you know?
There was, uh, only
emergency power, you know.
There was no air-conditioning. I
can't even tell you how terrible.
It was
By the end, there was just chaos.
We were under mandatory evacuation.
Um, everyone was scrambling to get out.
Dr. Pou, I want to zero in
a little more specifically on
what happened on that
fifth and final day.
Well, before we do that
I was wondering if you could explain
how you're gonna be
providing for my defense.
You know, if it comes to that.
I can't give you any advice
on your representation.
Excuse me.
I work for Tenet. Not for
any of the individual doctors.
In fact, I'd strongly advise
you to get your own attorney.
Okay, now getting back to
that morning, Thursday
No.
No, I
I'm not gonna answer any
more of your questions
before I get my own lawyers. Goodbye.
So, what happens next?
What do we do here?
Well, in New Orleans, it's a city,
but really it's just a small town.
Everything you say and do is
gonna be observed and picked over.
You can't be talking to
anybody about what went on.
All right? Certainly not the
media. No more interviews
I don't want to do any more interviews.
And even your husband, um, Vince?
Yes, Vince.
Even Vince is gonna have to be
kept in the dark a little bit here.
What you and I talk about is
gonna just be between you and me.
Understood.
Um.
Look, I just want you to know one
thing before we go any further.
I didn't do anything wrong.
No, I know. I know
that. I know that. I
I I knew of your dad.
He was, uh he
was an excellent doctor.
No, listen, your
reputation is impeccable.
So what do we do? Just sit
around and wait until it's ruined?
No, we're not just gonna
sit back on defense here.
- Meaning?
- Leave that to me.
For now, I don't want you to worry.
I mean, I know you're gonna
worry, but, I promise you, Anna,
I am gonna take care of you.
I'm curious, Mrs. Robichaux,
why the LifeCare lawyers
wanted you to talk to us.
Because I believe
what happened what you're
looking into, those deaths
they weren't accidental.
Do you want to tell us what happened?
Well, first of all
the conditions in the
hospital were, uh
horrible.
I mean, just beyond belief.
It was chaos.
You know, nobody knew what was going on.
There was no power for two days.
It was dark.
The air was was like a furnace.
The stench of death was everywhere.
Especially on the last day.
I was called up to a
meeting at LifeCare.
We're getting all the
patients out that we can.
So, is Some people
are not getting out?
The plan is to not leave
any living patients behind.
What about Emmett Everett?
He's one of our patients.
He's awake. He's alert.
I'm not familiar with all
your patients. That's Dr. Pou.
You should ask her.
So I went over and I talked to Dr. Pou.
Excuse me. I'm Diane Robichaux.
- I run LifeCare here at this facility.
- Hi.
We were talking about Emmett.
He's paralyzed. Weighs,
what, 380 pounds?
About.
Yeah, how's he holding up?
Um, he's conscious and aware,
if that's what you mean.
I didn't realize any of
the patients were aware.
Yes.
How many people do you think
it would take to move him?
I I don't know. I have no idea.
We'd have to go down the stairs.
That's seven flights in the dark.
Across the hospital, through
the hole in the machine room.
And, frankly, I don't
even know if he would fit.
Then he'd be driven up to
the top to the parking garage
and carried up the narrow
steps to the helipad.
Well I'm sure there's a way to do it.
It has been a struggle
with people far easier to manage.
I'm sorry, wh
So, what are we talking about?
She said
"Some of these patients,
they're just not gonna survive."
Did Dr. Pou mean she
was gonna euthanize him?
The word "euthanize" was never used,
but I'm fairly certain that's
what happened to him in the end.
Did Dr. Pou Did she
say what her plan was?
She pulled me aside
to let me off the hook.
I'm taking full
responsibility for all this.
I don't want anybody worrying
about losing their license.
As if that's what I cared about.
What happened then?
Uh, we turned the floor over to Pou
and the two nurses she had with her.
Do you know who they
were, these two nurses?
No.
I didn't even know 'em.
I believe in my heart that
my patients were killed.
And even though I didn't
participate in it
I didn't do enough to stop it.
So, what do you think?
What I think is that she
didn't actually hear anybody
directing patients to be euthanized.
Could just be a case
of misunderstanding.
Look, given the dire circumstances,
it seems likely that these critical
care patients had just died.
Or at the very worst,
misprescribed medications.
I just can't believe that the staff
would intentionally kill patients.
I just can't fathom that.
Me either.
We need to talk to some
more people at LifeCare.
Get a better handle on what happened.
See what I can set up.
PP is steady.
More inferior exposure, please.
- Yes, Dr. Pou.
- Thank you.
Significant adenopathy. Those
nodes are gonna have to go too.
Noted.
Wake up, Allyson.
Wake up.
Hey. How are you doing?
Hey, Doc.
Hi.
It's good news. We got all of it out.
We're sending the tissue
samples to pathology,
but I don't think
there's any more tumor.
Are you serious?
You're gonna be great.
Is your family out there?
I'll let them know.
Um, Ms. Mendez, you were the
nurse executive for LifeCare?
That's right, yes.
Let's jump right to the morning
of Thursday, September 1st.
That was your last day
at the hospital, right?
Yes, it was.
What do you remember about that day?
Um, the helicopters.
And the smell.
The fumes from the helipad
were wafting inside.
It was overwhelming.
The whole thing reminded me of
something I'd seen on TV once.
What was that?
The Fall of Saigon.
Ms. Johnson, what was
your job at LifeCare?
And it's Kristy, yeah,
with a "K"? Is that
Yes. K-R-I-S-T-Y.
I was the physical medicine
director, which means I supervised
all the rehabilitation and
therapy programs at LifeCare.
Can you tell us what you
remember about that last day,
Thursday, at the hospital?
I remember we had a
meeting with Susan Mulderick
and she was saying she didn't think
the LifeCare patients
were gonna make it.
Mulderick said that?
Yes, I think so.
Do you know why?
The conditions were total chaos,
and we were under orders to get out.
Now, my guess is, I don't
know this for a fact,
they didn't want to leave
patients alone and behind
to suffer in a deserted hospital
maybe for days before they died.
So, that morning, what'd you do?
The first thing I always did.
Go check on the patients.
They looked bad.
Some were unconscious and
others were frothing at the mouth.
Some were breathing the way
you breath before you die.
There was no food.
No fresh water.
People were just trying to get out.
One. Can anybody take one?
I was helping one of
my patient's daughters,
Angela McManus, get onto a boat.
You need to get yourself somewhere
safe for your mother, okay?
You need to survive for her.
That's when Dr. Pou came over
These patients
they're probably not gonna survive.
I'm amazed we've kept the
sickest ones alive for this long.
The decision's been made
to administer lethal doses.
Did she say specifically what drugs?
She listed them off, but
I was so shocked, I
I asked her to repeat them
and she repeated them and
Now, I don't
Morphine was one of them.
What happened after that?
I heard Therese Mendez calling my name.
She sounded really upset.
Kristy. Kristy, Kristy,
come on. We got to go back.
We went to Emmett Everett's room
because that's where Dr. Pou was.
There's no way we can get him out.
What happened then?
She wanted somebody to sedate him.
You You heard her say that?
Pou asked for someone to sedate him?
Ms. Johnson.
She might have.
I'm not sure if I heard it directly
from her or from somebody else.
But I did hear her say,
"Y'all need to be evacuated. The
patients are in our care now."
Did you see her do anything
to any of your patients?
When I was leaving, I saw
her walking down the hall.
She looked really nervous to me.
She was with these two nurses.
Did you see her administer
drugs to any of the patients?
Did you see anything else?
No.
We left.
Mr. Nakamaru, as the
pharmacist on that last day,
did Dr. Pou tell you what
the plan was gonna be?
She told me patients would
be given lethal doses.
You heard her say that,
"Lethal doses would be given"?
Those exact words.
That's my recollection.
What happened then?
I asked her what kind of medications
she would give the patients.
She then showed me vials
of morphine and Versed,
which is a surgical sedative.
She asked me for supplies,
including syringes and
vials of sterile salt water.
Sterile salt water?
It's what we used to chase drugs
through intravenous catheters
into patient's bloodstreams.
So, as a pharmacist, did you
give her the stuff she requested?
Yes, I did.
Well, did you see her, or the
nurses, administer the drugs?
I saw them draw up the
drugs into syringes.
But I didn't see them actually
inject the patients. No.
Did you see anything else?
Yeah, afterwards.
I saw Dr. Pou coming
out of one of the rooms.
She had put the syringes in
a clear plastic waste bag.
Then Pou asked me something.
What was that?
She asked me to check on the patients
and pull the sheets over
the ones who had died.
You believe
In my opinion, there's no
other conclusion you could draw.
Those patients were murdered.