DZ has
commented in the past about doctors who subordinate their duty to their
patients to their own, less worthy, priorities. Usually financial, and, more
often than not, the way they conduct them selves in their private practice.
I’ll repeat
an old joke of mine;
Q. What’s
the difference between doctors and prostitutes?
A. There
are some things prostitutes won’t do for money.
The first is
this case where
a French anaesthetist is accused of killing some of his patients. Any
Anaesthetist routinely uses drugs which can very easily kill. Muscle relaxants,
opiates, dysrythmogenic drugs can all cause death if the patient is not closely
monitored, and, where indicated, supported.
Dysfunctional
relationships between Anaesthetists and their surgical colleagues are not unusual
and on rare occasions tempers can flare.
So Dr
Pechier, the anaesthetist, was not unusual in having some colleagues he viewed
as enemies. What was unusual , it is alleged, is that he took his revenge on
the surgeons he disliked by deliberately killing their patients. Twelve of them
in total.
The other case concerns a British vascular surgeon, so someone well practiced with
amputating legs. This guy deliberately packed dry ice around his legs to freeze
them to the point where they required amputation. He apparently did this for
sexual satisfaction!! Now DZ has heard of a lot of weird and wonderful ways
that people, almost invariably men, can get their rocks off. But this is a new
one on me. But that wasn’t enough. He then tried to claim on an insurance
policy claiming he had lost his legs due to sepsis. Although the insurance
money, almost half a million pounds, was paid, he was subsequently found out,
and has now been jailed for fraud.
The surgeon
has a most appropriate name. Neil Hopper!!
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