Heartbreaking story of doctor who would not allow her patients to die in agony in New Orleans

"Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."

The doctor said: "I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. But I did not have time. I had to make snap decisions, under the most appalling circumstances, and I did what I thought was right.

"I injected morphine into those patients who were dying and in agony. If the first dose was not enough, I gave a double dose. And at night I prayed to God to have mercy on my soul."

These are the kind of choices that nobody should have to make. And if this were my father or grandmother who were left to die alone in the dark I would make it my lifes work to make sure that the people responsible paid, and paid dearly.