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Ohio Hospital Fined $400K over Painkiller Doses for Patients Who Died

The hospital system where an intensive care doctor was accused of ordering excessive painkiller doses for dozens of patients who died will be fined $400,000 for violating Ohio pharmacy law under a settlement announced on March 4. The Columbus-area Mount …

Judge Won’t Make Health System Fund Defense of Accused Ohio Doctor

A federal judge declined for now to compel a Michigan-based health system to advance legal costs for a doctor’s defense against murder charges in the deaths of 25 Ohio hospital patients. U.S. District Judge George Caram Steeh in Michigan concluded …

Ohio Doctor Charged in 25 Patient Deaths Sues Hospital for Defamation

An Ohio doctor accused of ordering drug overdoses in the deaths of 25 hospital patients has sued his former employer for defamation, arguing that he did nothing wrong and did not deviate from hospital policy on end-of-life care. Dr. William …