Suddenly, Foti cares about medical neglect

When Charles Foti was criminal sheriff of Orleans Parish Prison, there were multiple cases of medical neglect of prisoners. Some of them died. That is one reason I did not want him to be elected Attorney General of Louisiana, but he was. Now he is bringing a case of not just medical neglect, but murder, against a doctor and two nurses who treated patients in a hospital during Hurricane Katrina.

Foti maintains that the medical team gave lethal injections of Morphine and Verset to four patients at Memorial Hospital. They deny that they did, but a lot of New Orleanians, including medical personnel, are defending them, even if they did inject the doses. This defense is based on both the characters and reputations of the doctor and nurses, and on the extraordinary and horrific circumstances under which they had to work.

The entire situation is unpleasant, but the irony of Foti's zeal about medical neglect is really burning me up.