Posted on 05/15/2007 2:29:28 PM PDT by bedolido
MADRID, Spain — A Spanish anesthesiologist with hepatitis C was sentenced to 1,933 years in prison Tuesday for infecting 275 people with the virus by injecting them with morphine from the same needles he used to feed his addiction to that drug.
The Valencia Provincial Court said Juan Maeso, 65, tainted the patients by first giving himself a portion of morphine shots meant for them, then shooting the rest into them without changing the syringes.
Maeso worked in four hospitals in the coastal city of Valencia when he infected the people from 1988-1997, the court said. Four of the patients died.
Maeso was sentenced after a trial that started in September 2005. The most he can serve under Spanish law is 20 years.
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So in reality he is only sentenced to 20 years. Amazing liberals are able to delude themselves so much.
Impairing himself while a patient is helpless
and completely defenseless against his incompetence is despicable.
To purposelessly put helpless patients at risk to a
potentially fatal illness is reprehensible.
As a Physician, I have no words for this faithless act
And he’ll probably be out in a year or two.
275 patients before he gets caught?
I thought that the great data collected by a national healthcare system was supposed to catch these things?
I have to think that after a few dozen, the cluster would have been obvious.
Ah the glories of socialized medicine in action. Hillary is looking to it for her example.
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