If there were other ways to evacuate these patients, other ways to care for them, Cook wasn’t seeing them. Cook told Pou how to administer a combination of morphine and a benzodiazepine sedative. He later said he believed that Pou understood that he was telling her how to help the patients “go to sleep and die.” That was different from what she and her colleagues on the second floor already knew how to do and were doing: treat patients for comfort.
