COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Dad was dying, the doctor told James Allen's family members as they clustered by his hospital bed.Allen's family was stunned. He had suffered a heart attack and was on a ventilator in the hushed intensive care unit of Mount Carmel West, a Catholic hospital in a working-class
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dad was dying, the doctor told James Allen’s family members as they clustered by his hospital bed.
“He dedicated his life to medicine, to helping others, to helping these specific patients,” Baez said. “He exercised livesaving procedures for many of these patients that he’s now accused of killing.” Prosecutors have not publicly discussed any motive but said Husel clearly intended for his patients to die. They argued that the amounts of fentanyl he prescribed were five to 20 times higher than recommended doses, and had no medical purpose.
In Husel’s case, a federal investigation found that there were few safeguards to prevent excessive doses. The hospital said it had never learned of a criminal incident in his past, and questions remain about whether he met the hospital’s requirements to be a critical care doctor. For years, at least two dozen nurses administered dangerously large doses of fentanyl and other drugs prescribed by Husel, according to medical and court records. The hospital did not audit how the drugs were being used, according to Ron O’Brien, the Franklin County prosecutor.They were not rich or powerful, the patients who died in intensive care. Some had long histories of health problems. Others struggled with chronic drug and alcohol use.
Ohio does not allow doctor-assisted suicide. And even if it did, family members said they never consented to potentially fatal doses of opioids.A likable guy The classmate whose car was targeted said the incident changed his life, too. He was so afraid that he abandoned the first name he used in college.
Mount Carmel began an investigation after receiving a report about Husel last October, though it now says it should have moved faster to consider removing him. The hospital said it has made changes to improve patient safety and to “ensure this never happens again.”At hospitals across the country, vials of drugs sit inside machines with locking drawers that pop open when a nurse picks up a prescription.
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