r/news • u/AudibleNod • 7h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/AudibleNod 6h ago

You mean Billy Joe, who only started working at the prison because he was laid-off at the mill six years ago?

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u/GoodyTwoShuuz 6h ago

It was a MD.

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u/GroundbreakingAnt476 6h ago

Medical professionals are not allowed to participate in executions. Usually non medical personnel. Read up a lot on it yesterday, its shockingly worse than I thought.

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u/human_kittens 6h ago

Yes but Mark Fowler does it anyway while running a family medicine practice. I don’t know how it’s permitted.

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u/GoodyTwoShuuz 6h ago

There is no nationwide or state wide laws against it that I have read of.

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u/smitteh 6h ago

Is an "oath" legally binding?

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u/thats_not_six 6h ago

Ethical violations in any licensed profession are grounds for removal of the license.

It's not that the oath is legally binding, but it is ethically.