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This could be the week that Marie Romero finally gets to look Charles Cullen straight in the eye and tell the former nurse and admitted serial killer how much pain he caused by killing her sister. ADVERTISEMENT Romero's sister, Catherine Dext, was killed with an injection in June 1996 at Hunterdon Medical Center, where she had been admitted with a ruptured spleen. "She's going to talk about how this deprived her of her sister and (how) it was a totally senseless, pointless death," said her lawyer, Anthony Macri. A sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin Thursday for Cullen, who pleaded...

y mother’s doctor is refusing to give her antibiotics,” the caller told me in an urgent voice. I asked why. “He says that she’s ninety-two and an infection will kill her sooner or later, so it might as well be this infection.” As disturbing as this call was, as outrageous the doctor’s behavior, I wasn’t particularly surprised. I have been receiving such desperate calls with increasing frequency for the last several years. Not every day. Not every week. But with sufficient regularity to know that something very frightening is happening to American medical ethics.