The controversy about the Ohio doctor who allegedly killed at least 27 patients is really aggravating me. I work a block away from this hospital and drive past every day and there have been NO news trucks.The local news continues to report updates, but nationally, nothing in over a week. I don't get it. This doctor, the nurse he worked with, and the pharmacist conspired to end the lives of at least 27 people. He's a damn serial killer!!
He's worked other places, and I've heard nothing about patient files being reviewed. It is a sign of how desensitized our culture is to death and violence. Thanks Criminal Minds!!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button." It is a sign of how desensitized our culture is to death and violence."
I think its more of a case where we don't know all the answers yet.. the dr is likely going to go to jail.. but we don't know if the patients themselves asked the dr to "stop the pain" or if he actually killed all of them against their wishes..
hippydog
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Jan 23, 2019
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I had read somewhere that often a doctor will write a prescription for a high dose drug and will tell the patient not to take it all at once "wink wink" or it could kill you. I know if I was terminally ill I would like to have that option.
Osirisred1
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Jan 23, 2019
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Did the patient want the overdose and the doctor complied or did the doctor, nurse and pharmacist work together to bum people off based only upon their own medical opinions? Before doctor assisted suicide became legal in Canada there were cases like this that came to light when the patient wanted to end things and the doctor helped but the family came back with a legal suit, often for religious reasons.
People should have the option to pull the plug when the case is hopeless and the pain is torture but many religions say it is a sin.
Surfpirate
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Jan 23, 2019
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@MarvelAnn This is why I asked the question and from the article it isn't clear at all what the situation is. I have had friends take the medically assisted suicide route before it was legal, one a lawyer and two were doctors. My point is that this option has been available to the few for a very long time but for the many it is forbidden by law and by religion because of the profits to be had by the few.
I'm not sure I have a problem with this.
KKGator
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Jan 23, 2019
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@MarvelAnn I went back and re-read it, just to make sure I got it right.
"An intensive care doctor ordered "significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients in the past few years after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped..."
Granted, it was illegal, but it was also humane. I've seen much worse done for far less.
You said, "It is a sign of how desensitized our culture is to death and violence."
I disagree.
It's not just "our culture", it's humanity, and humanity has always been desensitized to death and violence.
I agree that many times it is better to be dead than "alive"
All dog owners know this, as does anyone who had a relative with lingering illness!
AnneWimsey
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Jan 23, 2019
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