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Title: Doctor said to have killed 300 to free up beds
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URL Source: http://www.scotsman.com/news/intern ... -300-to-free-up-beds-1-2864253
Published: Mar 30, 2013
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Post Date: 2013-03-30 21:11:58 by Ada
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A Brazilian doctor – charged with killing seven patients to free up beds at an intensive care unit – may have been responsible for as many as 300 deaths, a health ministry investigator has said. Prosecutors said Dr Virginia Soares de Souza and her team administered muscle relaxants to patients, then reduced their oxygen supply, causing them to die of asphyxia at Evangelical Hospital in the southern city of Curitiba. De Souza, a 56-year-old widow, was arrested last month and charged with seven counts of aggravated first degree murder. Three other doctors, three nurses and a physiotherapist have also been charged with murder. Prosecutors for Parana state said wiretaps of De Souza’s phone conversations revealed that her motive was to free up beds for other patients. “I want to clear the intensive care unit. It’s making me itch,” she said in one recording released to the media. “Unfortunately, our mission is to be go- betweens on the springboard to the next life,” she added. De Souza’s lawyer, Elias Mattar Assad, said investigators had misunderstood how an intensive care unit works and she would prove her innocence. More cases are expected to emerge as investigators comb through 1,700 medical records of patients who died in the last seven years at the hospital. “We already have more than 20 cases established, and there are nearly 300 more that we are looking into,” chief investigator Dr Mario Lobato said. If it is proven she killed 300 people, De Souza’s alleged toll would exceed that of Dr Harold Shipman, estimated to have killed at least 215 patients while working in Hyde, Greater Manchester.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
Once upon a time hospitals were run by locals, and these fiends would have been burned at the stake, or at least fired from their jobs. All that is impossible now, as distant bureaucrats attempt to transform the entire healthcare system.. Something more to their liking is my guess. Doesn't bode well for non-party members I must say. "I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
The Rx to be prescribed by Obamacare?
The Hippocratic Oath (Original Version) I SWEAR by Apollo the physician, AEsculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgement, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation. TO RECHON him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look up his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according the law of medicine, but to none others. I WILL FOLLOW that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give a woman a pessary to produce abortion. WITH PURITY AND WITH HOLINESS I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. WHATEVER, IN CONNECTION with my professional practice or not, in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. WHILE I CONTINUE to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot! Prosecutors for Parana state said wiretaps of De Souza’s phone conversations revealed that her motive was to free up beds for other patients.
#2. To: Ada (#0)
her motive was to free up beds
#3. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
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