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A Doctor Says She Didn't Murder Her Patients

September 3, 2007 - Newsweek (Excerpts)

"Almost a year after the storm, in July 2006, authorities arrested Dr. Ana Pou, a well-known head-and-neck surgeon. She was eventually accused of murdering nine patients who were in a long-term acute-care unit on the seventh floor run by LifeCare Hospital of New Orleans."

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Dr. Anna Pou News Archives

  • 2007-10Times-Picayune
    Cartoon from July 25th 2007 Edition
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  • 2007-09Newsweek
    A Doctor Says She Didn't Murder Her Patients
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  • 2007-08 Times-Picayune
    Judge expunges record of Memorial Physician
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  • 2007-08 American Medical News
    Dr. Pou's plight: Heroic actions, harrowing aftermath
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  • 2007-08 Times-Picayune
    "Case Closed!"
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  • 2007-08 Baton-Rouge Business Report
    Hold Foti Accountable
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  • 2007-08 Times-Picayune
    More questions to ask
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  • 2007-08 Times-Picayune
    Foti cultivates seeds of own defeat
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  • 2007-07 Gambit Weekly
    Charles Foti's River Kwai
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  • 2007-07 Times-Picayune
    Foti goes off-script
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  • 2007-07 CNN
    No charge for doctor in hospital case.
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  • 2007-07 Gambit Weekly
    ... the strange case drags on - into the state and local election seasons.
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  • 2007-07 Times-Picayune
    Letter To Editor: Stop Harassing Doctor Who Stayed For The Storm
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  • 2007-07 DrPouDefenseFund.com
    Pictures from July 17 Rally at City Park
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  • 2007-07 Times-Picayune
    Foti investigation protested
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  • 2007-07 Bayou Buzz
    LA & New Orleans Persecution of Dr. Anna Pou
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  • 2007-07 DrPouDefenseFund.com
    Dr. Pou sues LA Attorney General
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  • 2007-07 Times-Picayune
    Foti sued by Dr. Pou ...
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  • 2007-07 DrPouDefenseFund.com
    Dr. Pou receives two awards for heroism, service ...
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  • 2007-06 Times-Picayune
    New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan has promised to drop the murder
    charges against two Memorial Medical Center nurses ...
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  • 2007-06 DrPouDefenseFund.com
    Update on proceedings
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  • 2007-05 Acadiana Medical News
    Justice Department Discusses Anna Pou Case
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  • 2007-04 AAO-HNS Bulletin
    American Academy of Otolaryngoloy offers statement of support for Dr Anna Pou.
    (Link) (Scan)
  • 2007-02-15 WWL 870AM 105.3FM
    Listener survey finds public opinion supports Dr. Pou.
    (Link)
  • 2007-02-02 Good Morning America
    Toxicology Report Does Not Support Katrina Homicide Charges
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  • 2007-02-01 Times-Picayune
    N.O. coroner finds no evidence of homicide
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  • 2007-01-18 Official Response
    Official response to ABC's "Boston Legal" Television episode from
    January 9,2007.
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  • 2007-01-11 Press Release
    American College of Surgeons Calls for Fair Investigation in New Orleans Case
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  • 2006-12-19 The Times-Picayune
    Investigation of deaths at Memorial Shielded
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  • 2006-11-21 The Times-Picayune
    Supreme Court rules in Memorial case
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  • 2006-10-31 Gambit Weekly
    “Charles Foti vs. The Memorial Three”
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  • 2006-10-17 Galveston County Daily News
    “Doctor Still A Victim Of Hurricane”
    (Link) (PDF)
  • 2006-10-10 Business Report
    “Who has the God complex?”
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  • 2006 Aug-Sept Living Magazine
    Physicians & Residents Unequivocally Support Dr. Anna Pou
    "From our perspective, the staff and patients of Memorial Medical Center owe Dr. Pou and the others present at the time a debt of gratitude for their super-human self-sacrifice during one of the worst episodes of human suffering in our nation's history."
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  • 2006-09-25 AMA
    “The American Medical Association urges against a rush to judgment and praising the "health care professionals who sacrificed and distinguished themselves in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”
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  • 2006-09-24 60 Minutes
    “Katrina Doc Denies Mercy Killings”
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  • 2006-08-20 The Times-Picayune
    “For Dear Life: How hope turned to despair at Memorial Medical Center”
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  • 2006-08-06 The Times-Picayune
    “Doctor’s drug mix not ideal killer: Evidence in Memorial case called unreliable”
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  • 2006-08-02 Bayou Buzz
    “LA Attorney general Foti Could Face Opposition”
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  • 2006-08-01 The New York Times
    “Arrest of Nurses and Doctor puts Attorney General in LA on Defensive”
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  • 2006-07-28 The Times-Picayune
    “It comes Down to a question of intent at Memorial” James Gill writes…”Foti has behaved like a jerk..”
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  • 2006-07-23 The Times-Picayune
    “Katrina nurses called victims of justice: Their performance has always been exemplary”
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  • 2006-07-20 The New York Times
    “LA Doctor Said to have Faced Chaos”
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  • 2006-07-20 The Times-Picayune
    “Doctor’s colleagues rush to her defense”
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  • 2006-07-20 CNN
    “Siblings defend doctor accused in hospital deaths”
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  • 2006-07-20 International Herald Tribune
    “Doctor accused in Katrina case toiled amid chaos”
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