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Michael Swango

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Michael Swango
A sociopathic physician who poisoned colleagues and killed an unknown number of patients—possibly dozens; Swango initially went undetected because his superiors did not check his background or thoroughly investigte charges mounting against him; he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2000 for the murder of 3 patients in New York and one in Ohio
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Michael Swango, ultimately convicted of murder after pleading guilty to killing three American patients with lethal injections of potassium, is suspected of causing the deaths of 60 other people, many of them in Zimbabwe and Zambia during the 1980s and 1990s.
Do Africans fear Western medicine? Thomas Land on the outbreak of ... by Land, Thomas / New African
By dissecting dozens of failed investigations into the exploits of serial poison-killing physician Michael Swango, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James B.
Blind Eye: How the Medical Establishment Let a Doctor Get Away with ... by Ruane, Matthew J. / Air Force Law Review
Stewart has written a terrifying book about one doctor, Michael Swango, who appears to have gotten away with as many as 35 murders of his patients at hospitals where he was employed after having been convicted of arsenic poisoning.
Tilting at Windmills by PETERS, CHARLES / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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