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Texas doctor found guilty of poisoning patients by putting dangerous drugs in IV bags
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:29 am
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:29 am
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A Texas doctor who was dubbed a “medical terrorist,” was found guilty of injecting heart-stopping poison into IVs at his former medical clinic in North Dallas.
FOX 4 in Dallas reported that a 12-person jury found Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz guilty on all 10 counts after nearly seven hours of deliberation.
When the verdict was read, Ortiz was reportedly wearing a mask and showed no emotion.
As a result of Ortiz’s action, several patients suffered cardiac emergencies and Dr. Melanie Kaspar died after using one of the IV bags, prosecutors said.
Federal prosecutors said the anesthesiologist committed the shocking crimes at Baylor Scott and White Surgicare North Dallas in retaliation for a medical misconduct probe.
A criminal complaint accused Ortiz of injecting nerve blocking and bronchodilation drugs into patient IV bags.
Surveillance video showed the doctor placing an IV bag in a stainless steel warmer outside an operating room on Aug. 19, 2022.
Minutes later, another staffer took the bag, and a patient soon after reportedly suffered a heart attack.
Ortiz’s colleague, beloved anesthesiologist Melanie Kaspar, took a contaminated IV bag home on June 21 to rehydrate due to an illness.
Almost immediately after inserting the IV into her vein, she suffered a serious cardiac event and died.
An autopsy showed she was fatally poisoned by bupivacaine — a numbing agent that the Justice Department said “is rarely abused” but used to alleviate pain during surgery.
“There’s no closure. My best friend is gone,” John Kaspar, Dr. Melanie Kaspar’s widower reportedly said shortly after the verdict. “I don’t think he ever looked me in the eye… It’s almost like you have so many emotions you can’t sift them out. You get flooded.”
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Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:34 am to GumboPot
frickin terrifying
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:38 am to GumboPot
That shite is terrifying, good Lord.
7 hours? Seems like it should've taken 7 seconds. But either way I'm glad they did the right thing. Hopefully this evil piece of shite gets the death penalty. Being in Texas, I am hopeful.
Poor guy. I know what emotions I would hold at the forefront for something like this if I lost my wife due to this piece of shite.
And the worst part is this:
Oh, a medical probe is happening and I don't like it, so let me go frick with/try to kill all these innocent people.
Also, I wonder how common it is for doctors to steal IV bags and take them home to "rehydrate." I assume that's a pretty common occurrence.
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a 12-person jury found Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz guilty on all 10 counts after nearly seven hours of deliberation
7 hours? Seems like it should've taken 7 seconds. But either way I'm glad they did the right thing. Hopefully this evil piece of shite gets the death penalty. Being in Texas, I am hopeful.
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“There’s no closure. My best friend is gone,” John Kaspar, Dr. Melanie Kaspar’s widower reportedly said shortly after the verdict. “I don’t think he ever looked me in the eye… It’s almost like you have so many emotions you can’t sift them out. You get flooded.”
Poor guy. I know what emotions I would hold at the forefront for something like this if I lost my wife due to this piece of shite.
And the worst part is this:
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Federal prosecutors said the anesthesiologist committed the shocking crimes at Baylor Scott and White Surgicare North Dallas in retaliation for a medical misconduct probe.
Oh, a medical probe is happening and I don't like it, so let me go frick with/try to kill all these innocent people.
Also, I wonder how common it is for doctors to steal IV bags and take them home to "rehydrate." I assume that's a pretty common occurrence.
This post was edited on 4/15/24 at 7:43 am
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:41 am to GumboPot
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Raynaldo Ortiz
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:43 am to GumboPot
I can’t fathom what goes through people’s minds when they do things like this. So you get an investigative complaint against you and in retaliation start killing patients?
Posted on 4/15/24 at 7:43 am to GumboPot
Shades of the case of Dr. Michael Swango who was convicted of 4 murders but suspected in as many as 60 as he made his way around the States and other parts of the world as the authorities were closing in.
There's been a few shows on his case and they show just what a sick bastard he was from the outset in his life and how he ever got through Med School and became a Dr. is beyond me.
There's been a few shows on his case and they show just what a sick bastard he was from the outset in his life and how he ever got through Med School and became a Dr. is beyond me.
Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:19 am to CocomoLSU
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Also, I wonder how common it is for doctors to steal IV bags and take them home to "rehydrate." I assume that's a pretty common occurrence.
I have several MD and NP friends and it is EXTREMELY common.
Usually for hangovers in my experience
We vacation with an oral surgeon a good bit and he brings like 10 to the beach. Always appreciated. (It's also his own practice, so he owns the supplies).
Posted on 4/15/24 at 8:32 am to GumboPot
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Baylor Scott and White
Incredible that this place hasn't been bankrupted through lawsuits at this point.
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