Former Arkansas VA Doctor Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter In 3 Deaths

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Source: NPR

A former pathologist at an Arkansas veterans hospital was charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three patients whose records he allegedly falsified to conceal his misdiagnoses.

According to federal prosecutors, Dr. Robert Morris Levy, 53, is also charged with four counts of making false statements, 12 counts of wire fraud and 12 counts of mail fraud, stemming from his efforts to conceal his substance abuse while working at the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks.

Levy was suspended from work twice — in March 2016 and again in October 2017 — for working while impaired, before he was fired in April 2018.

A June 2018 review of his work examined 33,902 cases and found more than 3,000 mistakes or misdiagnoses of patients at the veterans hospital dating to 2005. Thirty misdiagnoses were found to have resulted in serious health risks to patients.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/20/752928905/former-arkansas-va-doctor-charged-with-involuntary-manslaughter-in-3-deaths

[pbmus]

1. I find it hard to believe a doctor can be prosecuted for misdiagnosis...

Next a broker selling you a bad stock, and getting prosecuted...

[MrsCoffee]

3. Except the doctor had actual science on which to base his conclusions.

A bad stock probably isn’t going to kill you.

[ROB-ROX]

2. This Person Was Educated And Paid Too NOT Make Mistakes

This idiot should be executed for killing people. He was a paid killer and should be punished as a warning to others that killing people means execution. This turd was suspended twice which means he was caught twice doing something WRONG twice. This moron should be removed from the gene pool.......