Medical Murders

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Kimberly Clark Saenz Oct 20, 2021

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Fatigue, nausea, and cramping are all symptoms that dialysis patients regularly face, as they rely on their medical professionals to do the work that their kidneys once did. But in 2008, at a clinic in Lufkin, Texas, these ailing convalescents dealt with far worse. One of the nurses among them was administering bleach, in lieu of care.

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“Dr. Death” Christopher Duntsch Pt. 2 Oct 13, 2021

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When malpractice occurs, justice often lies with the hospitals who hired the malicious professional in the first place. But it was all too easy for Texas institutions to turn a blind eye to Dr. Christopher Duntsch's medical indiscretions in 2012. Duntsch, in turn, hopped from one facility to the next, falling deeper into a deluded rampage, until his egregious oversights caught the attention of two sleuthing doctors.

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“Dr. Death” Christopher Duntsch Pt. 1 Oct 06, 2021

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When Dr. Christopher Duntsch was ousted from the biotech startup he co-founded, he pursued a new career in medicine as a spinal surgeon. He was inexperienced, inept, and arrogant — but his charm secured glowing reviews and second chances everywhere he went. By the time alarm bells started ringing, his hospital employer was in too deep to let their investment walk away.

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Donald Harvey Pt. 2 Sep 29, 2021

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In 1986, Donald Harvey began a new job at a hospital in Ohio, where he moved from suffocating patients to poisoning them in lethal experiments.

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Donald Harvey Pt. 1 Sep 22, 2021

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Donald Harvey was a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio who killed dozens of patients in the 1970s. He was also a neo-Nazi who learned witchcraft, and would regularly summon a spirit he called Duncan to choose his next victim.

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Efren Saldivar Sep 15, 2021

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In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, a young respiratory therapist made medicine his whole life. But the extra shifts and multiple jobs started taking a toll — and it wasn’t long before rumors began circulating that Efren Saldivar’s “magic syringe” was putting patients in body bags.

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Shiro Ishii Pt. 2 Sep 08, 2021

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Even though he helped produce life-saving vaccines and water purification practices, Dr. Shiro Ishii’s biowarfare facilities and epidemics launched by his team are likely responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

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Shiro Ishii Pt. 1 Sep 01, 2021

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Coming out of the influenza pandemic of 1918, Dr. Shiro Ishii wondered if disease could be used as a weapon. After invading Manchuria in the early 1930s, Japan authorized him to conduct horrific experiments on Chinese locals to determine the effectiveness of biological warfare.

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“Revenge Killer” Anthony Garcia Pt. 2 Aug 25, 2021

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After getting away with two murders in 2008, Anthony Garcia tried returning to medicine — but repeated rejections left him spiraling. Once again, he focused his revenge on Creighton University doctors.

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“Revenge Killer” Anthony Garcia Pt. 1 Aug 18, 2021

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Wanting to make his parents proud, Anthony Garcia tried to complete his residency to become a doctor. Four failed attempts at four different institutions later, Garcia knew a path in medicine wasn’t for him — so he set out on a quest to enact revenge.

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