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The point I was making is that there is a history of oaths, especially ones that touch on political ideas, being used in ways that are worrisome from the point of civil liberties...i.e. leading to their infringement...This happened here in the USA in the 1950's during the McCarthy era, and has...

"Just had an old classmate of mine reach out and see how my cycle is going. Turns out he has two interviews lined up with UTRGV and UTMB and directly told me how he made up the vast majority of his activities section." I hope you realize that you just helped identify your old classmate to the...

"Our institution is located on Dakota land…We commit to uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system." "We recognize the inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism...

The Netherlands also provides free heroin to drug addicts (or anyone who wishes to be designated a drug addict).

LET is the crucial word, and I completely agree with your statement above. I would totally disagree if you had said "please respect my wishes and kill me."

I've actually met some real serial killers and in IMHO only one of them seems smarter than Husel.

Here is an interesting and very balanced conversation between Dr. Ely and Dr. Zivot regarding their opinions of the case and the verdict: https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/98345

Good to hear and that's a really great deal!

I got certified back in 1997 when they had both oral and written exams, so my comments are obviously dated. We had the RITE back then and I did well on those, but I still felty the need to study for the written exam and I'm pretty sure it helped. One thing I can recommend is to join the AAN...

Not completely baseless...his criminal behavior and convictions (as an adult and not a juvenile) suggest a character pathology (mainly sociopathy, but that frequently goes with narcissistic personality disorder)...But I admit that's speculative as most of the comments in this thread have been.

Do you have any proof of that? Is that what the Ohio Medical Board said was the reason for his license suspension? Medical Boards do revoke licenses for actual criminal convictions, but they don't do so because they think a physician committed a crime. Yes, they may suspend a license while...

I beg to differ that an OD on fentanyl would necessarily be comfortable. Morphine maybe, but not fentanyl. Fentanyl is well-known to cause muscular rigidity that can make artificial ventilation quite difficult and certainly tax the strength of respiratory muscles in an unventilated and...

It would apply to physicians who kill their patients due to gross negligence. Normally medical malpractice leads to civil trials, but in egregious cases such as this a criminal charge like manslaughter would seem appropriate. The argument being that if Husel didn't intend his patients to die...

I'm going to guess they asked about that because they were wondering if any doubts they might have had whether or not Husel "intended" to kill patients constitute "reasonable doubt." If that's why they asked the question it shows how poorly the prosecution presented their case to the jury for...

Looks like a hung jury, likely due to the absence of manslaughter as a lesser included offense, something that still makes no sense to me and was basically a gift to the defense.