An Ohio doctor is accused of murdering 14 of his patients as prosecutors say he intentionally overdosed them on fentanyl. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah explains how his defense is arguing the doctor was administering comfort care.
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Come to texas you dont need a script
Hope he gets off. I live with pain. I would rather die of a overdose then live with excruciating pain. One has to have that level of pain to understand so I get it if people are shocked at that statement but when pain stops you from living n all you can think about is how bad you feel that isn’t living anyway. No I don’t want to die. Absolutely not! But I can see situations where a heavy dose of pain meds is given. Maybe details will come out to show he did something wrong but I think doctors should relieve high levels of pain. It’s traumatizing to be in long term pain. I don’t have pain now but my experience has me very afraid to be in pain like that again.
I have chronic pain too but this dr gave these drugs to patients that were in the icu but had treatable conditions and he gave them an overdose playing God i consent to taking my pain meds but this dr had no right to administer this without consent even people with a terminal condition in washington have to administer the drugs themselves if they want a euthanasia medication how would you feel if you were in a hospital and they gave you a paralyzing drug and you suffocated because your diaphragm couldn’t move the only difference was the drug he chose was an opioid
Doctors at st Joseph’s hospital in Denver do it all the time
If the good doctors defense holds, what’s the killers defense going sayo after they shoot or knife someone, oh they were going to die anyway?
Terrifying, my aunt works in this field and this happens all the time. She has started to refuse administering high doses.
Accountability Now !!!!
🤡🤡
He is an angel of mercy. I am pretty sure that my father’s nurse overdosed him when I asked her to make sure that he felt no pain. He was dead that night and I am grateful to her. This was 20 years ago in Canada.
Were all of the victims in this case terminally ill? If they chose to end their own lives and wanted assistance in doing so painlessly, that is one thing. But this does not sound like that was the situation with these people.
He looks like Dr. Lexus.
Jose Baez looks good still 💰
What about holding our President accountable for the hundreds of murder she’s committing every single day by leaving the border opened knowing fentanyl is flooding in????
Oh Casey Anthony the baby killers attorney. He’s a monster
Don’t be fooled Judy, he got off murderous mommy Casey Anthony. He must be machiavellian
Most deadly drug on the market…why isn’t it banned? oh..because money
These patients were going to die. Not saying the MD is innocent but I don’t think he is the sole person responsible for their death.
That’s not good bruh. However, I think that he was giving the patients what they wanted according to the story.
This is a perfect example of how not to put your trust in man to save you.
Typical behavior
Thought he was God.
This dr thinks he’s God. Wrong move buddy! There is only one God.
My God, man heart is desperately and deceitfully wicked !!we must depend on Jesus!!
This isn’t too shocking considering that Ohio had a heroin problem. My guess the doctors, once again, are to blame for the opioid crises.
I’ve never been to medical school, and I KNOW that that’s a dangerous drug.
Yeah and you clearly don’t know jack. Fentanyl is a commonly used anesthetic.
EXACTLY.
Med Ed that doesn’t change the fact that what she said is exactly correct lmao, it’s a very dangerous drug
@Nelson Shaffer Exactly. Fentanyl is a Schedule II prescription drug. For our pretend medical school student (Med Ed) up there, Schedule II drugs, substances, or chemicals are defined as drugs with a high potential for abuse, with use potentially leading to severe psychological or physical dependence. These drugs are also considered dangerous.
@Med Ed yeah in the correct dose.. The tiniest amount will cause somebody without a tolerance to die so yeah even if it does have a medical use doesn’t mean it isn’t a super dangerous drug when dosed incorrectly
My doctors won’t prescribe aspirin there scared shitless of the DEA. ..
Just by his choice of lawyers you know he’s guilty.
So many years of studying and hurdling over obstacles just to get arrested.
Serial killer doctor
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A serial killer as a doctor is terrifying…
that is sad
If it wasn’t murder, then narcan would have been given immediately, wouldn’t it?
I’m trying to find me a lawyer that could assist me in Southeast Georgia for medical nitrogens. Kidney stones can sepsis are not being treated properly for rheumatoid arthritis and so many other things. I have three doctors I like to go after but I think he find me a medical malpractice lawyer that could assist me and when in a case unfortunately I’m on a stage three almost in a wheelchair and I have to fight every day just to get medications that I need I got to go to the hospital and get dope up because my regular doctor assists me she just wants the insurance money
Sounds like a nazi doctor
Just give him that high of a dose.
ASSASSINATE THE DR.
ASSASSINATE BAEZ
The good thing is that that lawyer lost all them big cases
I have a feeling this happens a LOT more than people know or realize. Not murder exactly, but clinical negligence and improper sedation w opioid + benzodiazepine administration in a hospital setting. I have heard many horror stories, and now have one of my own…
I think of this differently. If it’s obvious the patient is in pain and is going to die soon anyway I would see nothing wrong with OD’ing them. It’s a mercy killing.
So he would OD them on Fentanyl and then write it down a covid death so it get what an extra $45,000
Satan is a lawyer
This drug should be banned world wide..
Hes a different kind of serial killer.
Imagine paying 10s of thousands of $$$ just to get murdered…fkkk the US health system…🖕
Lawyer stats 1-3 celebrities not good. Screw this lawyer he always defending evil ppl
He didn’t do it. 💯
I don’t know much about the case, but 14 pts seems like a lot… how were these doses able to bypass nurses when the meds were being administered? Fentanyl doses are known to have a very low therapeutic range. I know doctors put nurses in a tough position, but always question the dosage if it seems off. Hold the med and do not administer if you aren’t comfortable in doing so. Talk to the charge nurse if the doctor still says the dosage is okay.
my thoughts exactly. I got 50mcg there’s no way 600 is okay, he’s not the only one who’s responsible.
I wonder when the Sacklers are going to prison for killing thousands
This happens way more often than most know; glad to see it exposed. Thank you for sharing….
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Why do people say “Fent – n – all”… “all” should be “ill” like illness ill. Like, did people not go to elementary school or something?
Doctors can’t win. You get charged if you don’t treat pain. You get charged if you over-treat. Medicine is not a set of recipes. I hope the prosecutor never needs pain management.
And no one decided to speak up until all of those deaths? Everyone that was in on it and administered the meds should be held responsible. This could have been questioned or stopped many times.
Sadly, America has become a culture of cowardice and indifference. To speak up, even when they knew he was way out of line would have put them in the spotlight; a spotlight that often favors popularity over propriety.
Go to jail sir your done
This is sick!
Where is George Floyd’s Dr ?
He was overdosing everyday
Fentanyl
They’re all prescribing crap that’ll harm people
I had a muscle tight and the doctor gave me Baclofen,a muscle relaxer,but for people with multiple sclerosis,not only that he gave me way high dosis for my weight 109 pounds and 5’2, I felt unconscious,lost the availability of cognition,dizzy,and still can’t drive since I feel vibrations on my head.
Laws should be very strict for this garbage doctors.
Your atty said that?
If thats your defense, you are in trouble.
Pain meds in general are over prescribed.
His attorney should be under his client’s care and then see how that turns out!
Wow
Is the devils advocate. Welcome to war crime. He is just A domino at the end of the pile
‘Angel of deaths’ cases has been going on forever. Shame
Between this doctor and open-borders Biden, this country has way more Fentanyl deaths than necessary.
Evil 👿 Wyt Mann right there (add) must be the money
DISGUSTING.
As a side note, we should remember to thank Joe Biden and the Democrat Voters, as well as NBC, for being part of the drug trafficking that brought a record amount of Fentanyl into our country! Thank you, liberal trash for Making America Dangerous Again! (MADA).
Give him 60 years in person
He’ll just go somewhere else and play doctor.
Lets just skip the hospital and go directly to the morge.
I think I would bof switched what I gave people after the first death. It’s supposed to be multiple × stronger than drugs with the names of heroin and more fiend. Lock him up
When are we going to do something about for-profit healthcare in America…?
This and cases like this is exactly why Hospital should be reviewed by outside independent review boards. As guilty as this doctor may have been you can’t tell me the hospital was not aware of it. In fact I believe the hospital was probably instructing the doctors to do so. So many of these doctors offices and hospitals are nothing more than greedy unethical business institutions that consider patience just a number as far as they’re concerned. so they will charge the insurance companies as much money as they possibly can on top of charging the patient as well over-inflating every charge and then when the patient reaches the maximum insurance that can be charged it is financially more cost-effective to Simply get rid of the patient so that another patient would be brought in to take its place and the cycle continues.
WHERE WAS THE PHARMACIST IN THIS?
14 COUNTS?!
Comfort care for end of life — deserve any does to help the patient get relief. My mother was passing from painful bone cancer. Towards the end – I asked the nurse to administer the highest legal dose possible.
14? You would think after 5 someone would have because suspicious of him, and questioned him on his methods 🤔
The drug pushers need to be put in prisons. End of storytelling!
Make them responsible. Intentionally playing God! They decided who lives and who dies and they are using drug’s. Stop the killing because, your not a God! Stop the killing with your drug’s.
Junkies would love him
Remember that old saying, ‘Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.’?
There should be an updated version like, ‘Tell me who your attorney is and I’ll tell you how guilty you are’.
Jose Biaz,still has a license?
I sure wish this would go a lot more viral.
Boy I bet he sure gets a lot of walk-in patients off the streets
One of the traits that medical doctors & policemen have in common – they are very reluctant to say anything when their colleagues are doing something immoral/illegal – I’ve seen it many times in both professions.
What the heck?
What kind of person would still be MARRIED to this murderer???? And go to court with him??? Hand in hand????
DONT DROP DA SOAP!!! 😁
Assisted suicide should be 100% legal
Not one nurse brought this to anyone’s attention smfh shame on this hospital and nurses who were aware.
“Trust your doctors”
😢😠
It’s 1 thing if he accidentally did it to one patient, but 14 PEOPLE?? this doctor did it on purpose!! The poor families of the deceased patients breaks my heart! Hopefully they’ll get some justice against this lunatic!
As my dad always says “Doctors bury their mistakes.”