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The guy is just ahead of his time. This will be standard operating procedure in 10 years after nationalized health care gets established.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/...y_nurse_deaths
Air Force nurse charged in 3 patients' drug deaths
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Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print By MIC E ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer Mic e Roberts, Associated Press Writer – 31 mins ago
Featured Topics: Barack Obama Presidential Transition SAN ANTONIO – An Air Force nurse has been charged with giving lethal amounts of medication to three terminally ill patients in his care, military officials said Tuesday.
Capt. Michael Fontana, 35, was formally charged in military court with deliberately giving three Wilford Hall Medical Center patients lethal amounts of medication, and with conduct unbecoming an officer for allegedly changing a medical do ent.
The Air Force began investigating after another staff member at the San Antonio hospital discovered irregularities in Fontana's administration of medications that may have resulted in the death of a terminally ill patient, Air Force spokesman David Smith said.
The investigation, which began in August, revealed that two other patients in Fontana's care may have received lethal amounts of medication. Fontana was removed from duty as soon as the irregularity was reported, Smith said.
Wilford Hall, at Lackland Air Force Base, is the Air Force's largest hospital. It primarily serves military personnel and retirees but provides emergency and trauma care to some civilians.
Relatives of Fontana's patients were notified of the investigation, Smith said, but he declined to provide any details about them, citing federal privacy laws.
An Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent to a grand jury proceeding, will be conducted in the next few weeks, and the commander will decide whether the case goes to court martial.
A call to Fontana's home was not immediately returned Tuesday.
As part of Congress' latest round of base closures and realignments, Wilford will become an outpatient surgical center only in 2011. Brooke Army Medical Center, across town at Fort Sam Houston, will expand and take in Wilford's other cases.
The guy is just ahead of his time. This will be standard operating procedure in 10 years after nationalized health care gets established.
It's a very bad story, it hits way to close to home for me and my folks.
He's actually still working at WHMC. They've got him in an admin position with no direct access to patients or meds, but the fact that he's there in any capacity doesn't inspire any further trust in the AF in me.
It's an article 32 investigation. "Innocent until proven Guilty" applies even in the Air Force.
Of course, but there's no reason he can't be "innocent" working outside of the hospital.
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