Ray
@healthunchained
The doctor will see you now! Do you trust your doctor? Some real doctors out there are even scarier. Here are a few really scary ones from history. Can you name a horrifying doctor not in this thread?
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@healthunchained
"Herman Mudget, alias Dr. H.H. Holmes As a medical student at U of Michigan he stole corpses and used them to make fraudulent insurance claims. In 1885, he moved to Chicago, got a job at a pharmacy, took up the alias Dr. Henry H. Holmes and took over the pharmacy by murdering the owner and his wife. He built a house especially designed for murder. It had secret passages, soundproof rooms, locked doors, gas jets to suffocate victims and a kiln to incinerate their bodies. He seduced young women with promised of marriage, stole their savings and killed them in his horror house. He was caught and sentenced to death in 1984, confessing to 27 murders but suspected in as many as 200."
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"Harold Shipman, MD One of Britain’s most infamous serial killers. Between 1975 and 1998, Shipman a General Practitioner murdered as least 215 patients, most older women. He used lethal injections of pain-fillers. His motive was to steal their property, money, and other valuable estate items which he had them sign over to him before killing them. Shipman was sentenced to life in prison; in 2004 he hanged himself in his prison cell."
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"Linda Burfield Hazzard Dr. Hazzard was not a medical doctor but received a license to practice medicine through a loophole that grandfathered practitioners of alternative medicine under the regulations of the state of Washington. She was a well-known advocate of fasting and wrote two books on the subject: “Fasting for the Cure of Disease” and “Scientific Fasting: The Ancient and Modern Key to Health.” Under her care, 40 patients died. She claimed they died of previously undiagnosed conditions, while others stated the cause was starvation. In fact, locals called her place “Starvation Heights.” In 1912, she was convicted of manslaughter for the death of a wealthy British woman who weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death. Her license there was soon revoked for practicing without appropriate credentials. She died in 1935. In an irony, the son of one of her victims went on to establish a successful seafood restaurant in Seattle."
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"Josef Mengele aka "Angel of Death" Mengele received his medical degree in 1938, the same year he joined the German Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary organization under Hitler and the Nazi party. He began work at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics. He received a promotion to SS Captain and was then transferred to Auschwitz, where he became Chief Camp Physician of Auschwitz II, under the jurisdiction of Dr. Eduard Wirth. Among his roles, he would perform rounds in which he would make selections of which prisoners on the ramp arriving from the many trains would be sent to work and which would immediately be sent to the gas chambers. He became known as the “Angel of Death” or the “White Angel” for his particularly cruel and cold demeanor. Another of his duties was supervising the administration of Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide used in the mass killings in the gas chambers."
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Christopher Duntsch, infamously known as "Dr. Death," was a neurosurgeon whose medical practice in Texas led to severe harm and the death of multiple patients due to his gross malpractice. Between 2011 and 2013, Duntsch performed spinal surgeries that left over 30 patients seriously injured or dead, with complications such as paralysis, severe nerve damage, and fatal blood loss. His actions raised widespread concerns about the medical system’s failure to catch and prevent repeated malpractice. Duntsch was finally stopped when other medical professionals alerted authorities. In 2017, he was convicted of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to life in prison. His case led to increased scrutiny of medical licensing and credentialing practices in Texas and elsewhere, aiming to prevent similar cases in the future.
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Thankfully, medical credentialing processes have improved over the years but some scary doctors are still able to practice because of State medical board loopholes and prestige politics. Blockchain has the potential to make the world a more trusted and less scary place. Shoutout to ProCredEx, HPEC, AxuallProof Sources: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9324717/ https://www.physiciansweekly.com/top-14-most-evil-doctors-of-the-last-two-centuries/ https://www.propublica.org/article/dr-death-christopher-duntsch-a-surgeon-so-bad-it-was-criminal https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11283339/
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