Fri Jul 12, 2019, 05:51 PM

irisblue (25,541 posts)

The fallout over the murdering physician at Mt Carmel continues

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/us/hospital-fentanyl-murder.html

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"On June 5, Dr. William Husel, who served patients at hospitals in and around Columbus, was charged with killing 25 people over a four-year period by prescribing fatal doses of fentanyl. Ron O’Brien, the Franklin County prosecutor, had never seen a murder charge of that size in his 45-year career in the area, he said at a news conference in June."

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The fallout over the murdering physician at Mt Carmel continues (Original post)	irisblue	Jul 2019	OP
Good thing we don't have a national health program with checks and balances...	RHMerriman	Jul 2019	#1
Did he murder them or was it assisted suicide?	Merlot	Jul 2019	#2
He's been charged with murder.	irisblue	Jul 2019	#3
Wow. Mt. Carmel was the 'go to' hospital when I lived in Columbus.	sinkingfeeling	Jul 2019	#4
I wonder why no pharmacist noticed that the prescriptions were excessive.	Karadeniz	Jul 2019	#5
Working 3rd shift & being the 'expert' covered for a good while.	irisblue	Jul 2019	#6

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 05:58 PM

RHMerriman (1,376 posts)

1. Good thing we don't have a national health program with checks and balances...

Good thing we don't have a national health program with checks and balances...

Say what you want about the VA, I don't think I've ever heard of a VA physician being charged with 25 counts of murdering his patients.

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 06:15 PM

Merlot (8,689 posts)

2. Did he murder them or was it assisted suicide?

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 06:45 PM

irisblue (25,541 posts)

3. He's been charged with murder.

Early June TV station story
https://www.10tv.com/article/former-mount-carmel-doctor-charged-murder-released-jail-after-posting-bond-2019-jul

Snip-Dr. William Husel was indicted on Wednesday and made his first court appearance later in the day.

Husel pleaded not guilty to all counts and his bond was set at $1 million.

To date, 35 patients have been identified as having received excessive doses of pain medication – 29 of the patients, the hospital says, received potentially lethal doses of pain medications.

The murder charges were brought only in cases that involved fentanyl doses of at least 500 micrograms

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 07:09 PM

sinkingfeeling (44,054 posts)

4. Wow. Mt. Carmel was the 'go to' hospital when I lived in Columbus.

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:09 PM

Karadeniz (13,335 posts)

5. I wonder why no pharmacist noticed that the prescriptions were excessive.

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Fri Jul 12, 2019, 09:27 PM

irisblue (25,541 posts)

6. Working 3rd shift & being the 'expert' covered for a good while.

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190131/former-mount-carmel-doctor-william-husel-has-complicated-past

Snip--Decades later, a nurse who worked with him at Mount Carmel West hospital described him this week as even-keeled, someone who would be able to calmly direct staff members even if the hospital burned down.

The nurse, a former Mount Carmel employee, said Husel was generally respected and popular, but that she heard doctors express frustration and concern among staff members over the dosages Husel was ordering for sedatives and paralytics. She and other nurses, she said, had made a verbal, informal complaint about the same issue to leaders in the unit."

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