Do you understand?

We had to kill our patients. via GamEx.

Those New Orleans doctors and nurses, because they could not save them all, because the federal authorities did not come soon enough, because the hospital had lost electricity, those brave doctors and nurses, saddened, and trapped in the limbo of the Hippocrates' Oath, had to euthanize the patients already dying. They did it by giving them an overdose of morphine, to shorten the agonizing days or hours of pain before death into a few minutes.

They were brave because Louisiana forbids euthanasia. It is difficult to be put in that position, to say "These people will live. The others will need to be put to death. The others will be given morphine to ease their pain. I cannot save them, but I cannot let them live in pain anymore, live in pain because we did not have the means to do so--after this blasted hurricane, this blasted levees, after days of waiting, after days of siege by those gun-toting looters--other than the painkillers, crying out for mercy from sufferings that will not stop."