Ohio doctor charged with 25 murders sues hospital for defamation.
Husel also claims he received no formal training on hospital procedures from Mount Carmel when he was hired in 2013 as a critical care physician and that he received a doctor of the year award in 2014.Mount Carmel and Trinity Health responded Saturday with a statement calling Husel's allegations “unfounded."
“We completed an extensive review of patient care provided by Dr. William Husel and stand by our decisions,” the statement said. Mount Carmel officials said in January after the filing of the first of more than two dozen lawsuits regarding Husel's care that he ordered"significantly excessive and potentially fatal" doses of pain medicine for at least 27 near-death patients after families asked that lifesaving measures be stopped.who had roles in delivering and administering pain medication Husel had ordered.
A pharmacist and nine Mount Carmel nurses sued the hospital system this month, claiming Husel did nothing wrong. Their lawsuit said hospital executives were unaware of appropriate standards of care for patients at the end of their lives. Twenty-five Mount Carmel nurses and three pharmacists face administrative discipline by their respective state licensing boards. Husel's license to practice was suspended in January by the State Medical Board of Ohio.
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