Colleagues of Brian Rosenfeld told investigators that he would bend patients’ fingers back until they screamed in pain and even “over-administer laxatives” to them.
Throughout his career, medical technician David Kwiatkowski exposed at least 6,000 patients to hepatitis C, and at least 45 of them were determined to have been infected, causing the largest outbreak in the U.S.
Cathy Wood said she and her lover Gwendolyn Graham, who both worked as nurse’s aides at Alpine Manor, murdered five patients so they would have “something that would bind [them] together forever.”
Brian O’Connell had been treating cancer with photoluminescence and black salve, a topical paste that contains alkaloids, which attack and destroy living tissue.
Investigators discovered that Rick Van Thiel had been conducting unlicensed medical procedures — including abortions — in his trailer clinic, treating everything from cancer to STIs.
After Efren Saldivar's co-workers encountered a string of surprising deaths, rumors began to circulate around Glendale Adventist Medical Center about his “magic syringe.”
So many patients died under the care a Clinton, Indiana, nurse that co-workers began to joke that he was the “Angel of Death.” The lethal care Orville Lynn Majors gave to patients was no laughing matter, though, and he was eventually convicted of murder.
Medical malfeasance, negligence and malpractice are — thankfully — the rare exception, rather than the rule. However, as Oxygen and Dr. Terry Dubrow explore this summer, bad decisions by doctors can have deadly consequences.
Before D Magazine dubbed Christopher Duntsch “Dr. Death” for his trail of botched operations and dead bodies, there was another surgeon that went by that moniker, but for very different reasons — Dr. Jack Kevorkian.