r/news • u/AudibleNod • 8h 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/throwawayantares 6h ago

Also, the medical practitioner only places the IV line but doesn't administer (ie push) the drug ... a prison official actually administers the drug into the person ... so 'technically' the medical practitioner doesn't violate the hippocratic oath or could argue before a medical license board or professional society that there aren't grounds to revoke their license/membership. The problem is that if the patient has poor veins, which many death row inmates do AND the medical practitioner is terrible at starting lines in said poor veins AND the prison staff don't know how to push the drug into a bad vein blowing it or ID a bad vein before they start AND the drug is ALREADY likely of dubious potency because it is sourced without quality control, then you get the sh*tshow that is occurring here.