German cardiologist bags 4 years in prison for killing two aged patients with overdoses

A German senior cardiologist at Europe’s biggest hospital known as Berlin’s Charité hospital, Dr Gunther Schmidt, has been sentenced to four years in prison over the death of two patients.

According to reports, the aged patients were a 73-year-old man who died in 2021 and a 73-year-old woman who died in 2022. The two aged victims were victims Ulrich B., 73, and Margarete G., 73, whose full names have been withheld due to local privacy laws, died on 21st November 2021 and 23rd July 2023.

The doctor argued he administered a sedative to both of them to reduce their suffering, but added the patients were already dying and the medicine was administered so that they would not suffer During the trial, the doctor said he was certain that he had “not shortened the lives of the patients” and testified that his only mistake was having failed to document the administration of the drug, Propofol, in both cases.

Mepivacaine is reportedly not available in the hospital’s intensive care unit, and neither is ketamine, with both drugs thought to have been brought in by the doctor.

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