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.
