Posted on 12/31/2014 2:30:07 PM PST by Morgana
A Baltimore anesthesiologist who made national news as "The New Doctor Death" held the hands of six elderly Marylanders as they asphyxiated themselves with helium and then covered up their suicides, officials said in a state order they filed this month to strip him of his medical license.
The suicides are among nearly 300 nationwide that Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert said he helped to arrange as an "exit guide" for the right-to-die group Final Exit Network.
Egbert and several colleagues were arrested in 2009 amid an undercover investigation in Georgia, but he has avoided any punishment there or in another case in Arizona. He awaits trial for allegedly assisting in a suicide in Minnesota.
The Maryland Board of Physicians, which conducted a two-year review of his actions in the state, said they were unethical and illegal and revoked his license.
Egbert, 87, said he plans to appeal. Board officials would not say whether they referred Egbert's case to law enforcement, and no law enforcement official reached by The Baltimore Sun would confirm an investigation.
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Wow.
Thank you for that information!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
When I was stationed at Ft Leavenworth, one of my jobs was to control the allocation of ammunition to Guard and Reserve units that would come to the post to qualify. As part of the week long class for the position, we covered both the shipping placards required for the vehicles transporting the ammunition and the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).
That is where I ran across how dangerous Nitrogen can be. The class instructor used an incident at NASA where people died to illustrate his point.
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