In
Copyright Since September 11,
2000| Index | The following is a series of media articles on Medical Serial Killers |
| Nov. 18, 2009 Dameria Lawhorn, 51, has been charged with seven counts of elder abuse for allegedly overdosing seven patients with morphine. http://medicalserialkillers.kaiserpapers.org/ dameria-lawhorn.html Reports detail fatal druggings at nursing facility by Stacy Shepard and James Burger, Californian staff writers Feb 18, 2009 • • • Alleged Killer Nurse Has At Least One Defender By Paul Knight in Crime Friday, Apr. 3 2009 @ 2:34PM A nurse, Kimberly Saenz, at the Lufkin Dialysis Center injected her patients with bleach, murdering five of them and injuring five more, according to an indictment released today from an Angelina County grand jury. DaVita nurse injected 2 with bleach Affidavit: Nurse told detectives bleach in syringe was for a cleaning solution Life term for ex-nurse in patient killings Charged with 10 deaths, she pleads no contest; prosecutors surprised Nurse - Vickie Dawn Jackson The San Antonio Express-News reports Dorothy "Dottie" Gray of Natalia died on Aug. 5 of an overdose of the painkiller morphine and lorazepam, an anti-anxiety medication. Bexar County medical examiner records show the drugs caused complications from Gray's stroke and led to her death. She died the same day 35-year-old Capt. Michael Fontana was removed from patient care on suspicion that he had intentionally caused a patient's overdose death. Fontana was charged Monday by the Air Force with the murder of three "terminally ill" patients and with altering a medical record. Dr. Jayant Patel - from New York to Kaiser Permanente to Australia “Death by natural causes” was officially documented on the death certificate of St. Maximillian Kolbe who was killed by lethal injection on August 14, 1941, while a prisoner in the Auschwitz death camp. January 29, 2005 - 36-year-old Roger Andermatt - Swiss Nurse Sentenced for 22 murders Court TV's Library of Male Nurses that Kill and a section on Female Nurses that Kill Nurse
'tried
to kill patients' - April 28, 2004 Nurse
Charged
After Patient Deaths Claim December 2003 Probe
into murder of The Very Rev. Florian J. Gall Nurse charged over morphine dose Male NurseCharged In Dismemberment Slayings Christine Malèvre RN jailed in six patient deaths Lucy Quirina de Berk accused medical serial killer May - 2002 - Nurse Indicted in Deaths of Terminally Ill Patients Nurses in Missouri and Texas Charged With Killing Patients Daisuke Mori -Miyagi Prefecture Police arrested Mori on January 6, 2001. The lethal weapon was a muscle relaxant Mori added to patient drips. At Hokuryo Clinic in Japan there had been scores of instances where the conditions of patients suddenly changed, all of them reportedly after Mori administered drips. Daisuke Mori, a male nurse at the Hokuriku Clinic in Miyagi Prefecture, was convicted on March 30 of one murder and four cases of attempted murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Mori was accused of putting muscle relaxation medicine into the patients' intravenous drips. However, Yuri Yamashita, Mori's girlfriend who worked for the same clinic and attended 155 court hearings during the trial, said, "Suspicion against Daisuke originated from the fact that 10 muscle relaxation medicines out of 20 disappeared. However, there was no proof that only Daisuke could have stolen them. Many other employees had the opportunity. Doctor
charged
over '95 mercy killing Crime Library has a complete write up on Daisuke Mori - Medical Serial Killer
Richard Williams - VA Hospital Nurse Michael
Swango international medical serial killer that got away posing as a
physician
in the U.S. for a very long time. Efren Saldivar Medical Mass Murderer Press release from L.A. DA's Office on Angel of Death Texas to Dig Up I0 Bodies In Hospital Probe Former heroin smuggler struck off for ignoring critically ill patient Dr. William Palmerkilled between 1840 - 1856 |
Some of these crimes are committed to save corporate money, generally for personal financial gain by corporate bonus given to the offender. *****Some are done to make corporate money by manipulation of the payment schedule within Medicare.******* See: Odyssey Health Cares propectus below for details on just financially lucrative medical killing can be. Some of these are done just because they can. No matter what the motivation, the criminal and his cojorts, always, if working with a corporation justify their actions with something as trite as "they were going to die eventually anyway." None of the cases displayed in this site have anything to do with true compassion, sparing a patient or family, grief, any act of compassion or respecting/honoring the wish of any patient. All are outright murders. Most are for financial gain. Some were done just because the criminal thought that they could get away with killing someone. The news articles listed on the left
hand side of
this
section are not always up to date
because of time constraints. The point being made in this
section
is that these types of events are in no way rare, unheard of, nor are
they considered uncommon by law enforcement.
I am following these stories because in the past few years there has been a trend in the managed care industry to kill patients that are deemed not "cost effective". I also learned from these articles that individuals that kill without a patients permission, no matter what their physical condition are nothing more than Medical Serial Killers. They all have a pattern of repeatedly killing. It isn't a random event in most of these cases and dispite what some people would like to think, most of their actions are financially profitable to either themselves or the corporation that employs them. Many are provided bonuses for efficiently moving the patients out of the program very fast. Also from my own personal investigation I deduce that the managed care industry is welcoming individuals with twisted minds into their profession often offering them financial compensation if they do commit murder to save the managed care entity money. Remember this is only my opinion, I am not speaking for anyone else in this matter. I encourage you to make your own conclusions. The truth is that under Medicare provisions these government financied programs cannot be profitable if they are run honestly and as intented. The reason they cannot be is because everyone is eventually going to die. These are short term programs and so these corporations must deal in volume to make money.
For some background and examples of what does happen you may want to check out Odyssey Health Cares propectus though to see a money making formula routinely used by the industry. See also: http://kaiserpapers.org/euthanasia/odyssey2006.html Odyssey Healthcare to Pay U.S. $12.9 Million to Resolve Hospice Fraud Case http://kaiserpapers.irg/euthanasia/pdfs/pr071306_odyssey_settlement.pdfI think that if you look into this subject a little further you will find that there is no real difference from for profit or non profit corporations that care for patients. They all are only about making money for themselves or their stockholders off of government contracts. Please
view You must die or check out of the program before that cap is reached. Period! An audit would mean that the Federal Government would find many people that were not really dying that the corporation was billing for. This place deals in volume so there is a great deal of money that the government is paying them. You get 90 days paid by the government to the corporation. According to Odyssey most patients are gone forever by 85.2 days. 85.2 days - Four days short of a computer program in the Medicare system that could trigger an audit. What a coincidence. They must really have honed medical science to be that exact on how long any patient, with any illness, disease, etc., is going to last. More detailed information on the finacial rewards for doing in the patients, especially when the government is paying for their medical care can be found her at: http://medicalserialkillers.kaiserpapers.org/pdfs/ODYSSEYHEALTHCA10Q.pdf. Glance at page 16 to get a general idea what this is all about. Then go for the meat of the financial information. Just do a quick search for the term "Medicare Cap." Never let anyone tell you that this is a rare occurance. Never let anyone tell you that some doctors and nurses are not capable of murder. Don't believe any nonsense about they did it to save people from suffering. They either have a mental problem of some sort or they are making money off of it. True mercy killings are far and few between. There is generally no need for them. Just as we all learned that there are no vast warehouses for comatose people to be kept we also have learned that most people do not die in great pain, in an undignified manner, suffering in an unimaginable manner. Some people do suffer, some are in pain, not most of them. That part of their story is nothing more than a myth. Just as the reality is with pets and lifestock, the underlying motivation with euthanasia is to either save money or to make money. Most people have an animal put down because it will cost more than they can afford or are willing to pay for medical care. These corporations are doing the same thing with people. Also visit our
companion web
pages "Murders
By
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