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Dallas doctor dubbed 'medical terrorist' after caught tampering with IV bags
Fox News ^ | September 27, 2022 | Rebecca Rosenberg | Fox News

Posted on 10/04/2022 8:25:31 AM PDT by Excellence

A Texas doctor allegedly injected poison into IV bags, causing the death of a fellow physician and cardiac emergencies in 11 other patients, at a Dallas facility in retaliation for a medical misconduct probe, federal court papers allege.

Anesthesiologist Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, was arrested Sept. 15 — one week after the Texas Medical Board yanked his license after a string of healthy patients suffered mysterious and life-threatening complications during routine surgeries from May to August. None of the patients were under his care.

"Respondent’s continued practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare," the board wrote in its suspension order.

Alarming footage from Aug. 4 shows Ortiz emerging from a room at 12:35 p.m. at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare in North Dallas holding an IV bag as he walks down an empty hall toward a fridge used for warming saline solution.

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KEYWORDS: angelofdeath; baylorscottwhite; dallas; medicine; moreoldnews; raynaldoriveraortiz; texas
In an earlier disciplinary case, he was punished for failing to notify the board that he had acquired a criminal conviction. He was found guilty of cruelty to animals and sentenced to 29 days in jail in 2016 for shooting his neighbor’s dog with a pellet gun after she helped his then-girlfriend obtain a protective order against him stemming from a domestic violence incident.

A medical board record noted that Ortiz has a "history of violence toward women" — including a 1999 arrest for allegedly assaulting a spouse. In 2005, a different girlfriend obtained a protective order against him.

1 posted on 10/04/2022 8:25:31 AM PDT by Excellence
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To: Excellence

Amazing that Baylor, Scott, and White actually employed this guy despite a criminal history going back decades. Do we need to do our own background checks on our doctors?


2 posted on 10/04/2022 8:27:49 AM PDT by Excellence
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To: Excellence

that’s always been the funny thing about medicine.

There’s an old joke.. .what do you call the guy who graduated dead last from medical school?

..

Doctor.


3 posted on 10/04/2022 8:30:34 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Excellence

He needs to be in jail.

Actually, the death penalty but I fear that will never happen.


4 posted on 10/04/2022 8:30:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Excellence

No place is safe any more feral fever has taken over.


5 posted on 10/04/2022 8:31:59 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Excellence

Uhhh I know there’s a shortage of skilled people but how did he get hired with this documented history?


6 posted on 10/04/2022 8:33:01 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Giant meteor 2022!!!)
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To: metmom

He intentionally murdered someone and attempeted 11 others.

He needs an ‘injection’ of his own ‘medicine’..................... 😉


7 posted on 10/04/2022 8:38:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Excellence

Making IV bags great again.


8 posted on 10/04/2022 8:43:19 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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He screwed up, they started investigating him. He did what he always felt should happen, he made sure other people looked bad too by screwing up other doctors patients..

I seen it 100 times at work, It's typical for a psychopath to blame everyone else but themselves, and if there is no blame for others, they will go it alone in the shadows and manufacture it.

If you run into an a-hole one morning, you've run into an a-hole. If you run into a-holes all day , you're the a-hole.

9 posted on 10/04/2022 9:12:26 AM PDT by Ikeon (My fellow americans would put you in shackles if it meant they could not be bothered for one day. )
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To: one guy in new jersey
He screwed up, they started investigating him. He did what he always felt should happen, he made sure other people looked bad too by screwing up other doctors patients..

I seen it 100 times at work, It's typical for a psychopath to blame everyone else but themselves, and if there is no blame for others, they will go it alone in the shadows and manufacture it.

If you run into an asshole one morning, you've run into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day , you're the asshole.

10 posted on 10/04/2022 9:12:44 AM PDT by Ikeon (My fellow americans would put you in shackles if it meant they could not be bothered for one day. )
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"Respondent’s continued practice of medicine[ability to breathe] poses a continuing threat to public welfare," the board wrote in its suspension order
11 posted on 10/04/2022 9:24:07 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: Ikeon

Very, very well put!


12 posted on 10/04/2022 9:41:47 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey

What’s the penalty for administering the Covid vaccine?


13 posted on 10/04/2022 9:45:36 AM PDT by JJBookman (A bag of fries. )
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To: JJBookman

Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from a neck/hair sniffer.


14 posted on 10/04/2022 10:12:28 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Red Badger

Yup.


15 posted on 10/04/2022 11:04:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: Excellence

Do we need to do our own background checks on our doctors?

YES!!!


16 posted on 10/04/2022 11:25:49 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: Excellence

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4230869/posts
Follow up story


17 posted on 04/12/2024 7:17:34 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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