So when dying patients were reported as a having excessive air hunger/choking on their own saliva this dr orders medications to help ease the horrible sight families would have to watch and now he’s on trial? It’s really disturbing.
I watched my mother suffer and struggle to breathe for years. At the end it was horrifying to watch, she was terrified. I believe her death was assisted by a wonderful physician and nursing team. Could she possibly have lived another day or two? Probably. It would have been another 24 or 48 hours of struggling for each breath, weezing, coughing, choking, unable to eat, barely able to drink, fear and discomfort came with every excruciating inhalation and exhalation, she was exhausted and unable to sleep because she would be yanked from sleep by suffication. She promised us she'd make it through Christmas and boxing day, about 1am she passed. My dad was with her, the rest of the family had left an hour earlier. It was time. I will forever be grateful for the brave medical team that finally allowed her to go to sleep. peacefully.
@@clwhite1127 it's not legal in Montana either, that's why I'm moving to Oregon if something like this happens to me. I refuse to suffer like my sister.
This case should serve as a grim example of how quickly the “general public” can come to conclusions as judge jury and executioner. Chilling to see this kind of behavior in 2024.
Now people will suffer immensely because of fear of prosecution. It’s already impossible to get pain meds even for surgery because people abused them. Hope nobody suffers painful deaths with cancer.
exactly what I've been saying!! Especially since seeing the trial, this doctor was totally railroaded by this hospital and the totally corrupt leadership. His dosages didn't kill his patients...they were terminally ill and getting worse minute by minute. These ppl were very sick before even seeing Dr. Husel. I shattered my wrist last May and you know what they gave me until my surgery? #10 hydrocodone 5mg. This was after I told them I'm opioid tolerant. Hydrocodone 5mg barely works for opioid naive ppl, let alone someone who is used to them. Then after surgery I got the same thing, just #30 pills this time. same med and strength though--so I was in severe pain for many many weeks due to my very young surgeon being taught in med school to underprescribe pain meds, bc they're so hyper paranoid of the DEA or being accused of being a "pill pusher". So innocent ppl needlessly suffer. In this case, elderly ppl who died in peace thanks to Dr. Husel, as opposed to someone like some of the doctors that have taken the Stand thus far. Reasonable doubt of murder is oozing from every angle in this case, and I really hope the jury ends up finding him not guilty.
Even for surgery? Pretty sure somebody coming off a brain surgery is gonna get pain meds post operatively that are MONITORED. This doc never monitored anything.
I'm glad Dr Hussel won. This documentary was clearly biased. It wouldn't surprise me if the hospital had some involvement in the production of this documentary. The way the hospital slandered Dr Hussel as "the Villain" before the trial was quite disturbing. It was a clear attempt to influence the jury. In my opinion, the hospital administration that spoke to the witness' before Law Enforcement should be charged with Obstruction of Justice for influencing the witness' to favor the hospital. Great job by the defense.
I am a respiratory therapist, retired after 43 years. Because I managed life sustaining ventilators I was often at bedside for terminally ill patients who were days and moments from death, it is foolish to believe that giving palliative care doesn’t increase the rate at which a patient passes.
A man hit my brother with a car, he called 911, said he did it. After years of court he wasn't charged. But he still did it and admitted it. He got off by a technicality
@@jilliangrannon1939 insane , my nephew been on life support, last hit him with her truck , she is walking free , his life will never be the same if he makes it
Any amount of fentanyl or morphine given after an endotracheal tube and ventilator are removed could more than likely hasten a person’s death, primarily because it suppresses respirations. BUT the purpose of giving those meds is to prevent patient awareness of feeling suffocated and unable to breathe which would be torture. This case boils down to 1) were these patients qualified to be extubated (meet criteria for brain death or irreversibly failed organ systems). or 2). Were the narcotic doses too high? (which does not necessarily matter because the patient was in the process of dying without possibility of recovery once the “breathing tube” was removed).
I Want my doctor to relieve me of suffocating which is everyines worst fear. This is sad. That wife who begged husel to keep her husband comfortable at all costs found out she was gonna get money and said " If I would hae known he would give him that much medicine then I would have said " It is between God and my husband. Let God take him naturally. NO YOU DIDNT AND WOULDNT! I think to many nurses and tem members can and have fought to prove he was an amazing doctor. Why would a serial killer want someone else to murder for them? Is the very act of murder and watching the victim suffer not what gets the serial killer off? This is sad. Now people will suffer cause everyone is so afraid to give medications over fear of jail.
@@heatherinnis5144 I have a problem with the use of the term “brain death” that was used in these cases. It takes a plethora of tests, evaluations, and signatures to arrive at that diagnostic conclusion. If the patient’s family was told their loved ones were “brain dead”, meaning no neurological electrical activity, and he/she was not, that’s a huge problem.
I have been that ventilated patient who needed the conscious sedation and I am an ICU nurse who has given fentanyl and versed for conscious sedation. I have also helped titrate disprovan and morphine to stop a patient from bucking the vent. This doctor is the scapegoat...I can almost guarantee there was a protocol for this that the hospital is not admitting to.
@@amyflanagan2896 I have been an ICU nurse and now an ER DR. The problem with this case is not necessarily giving the sedatives. It is the fact that families were told their loved ones were “brain dead” when it does not look like the procedures were followed to determine if that was a correct diagnosis. If Husel just guessed or actually lied to the family to D/C life support, then that’s a huge problem. In that case, he was making a unilateral decision to “kill” or euthanize the patient without true informed consent. And I happened to have worked at the same hospital where these high fentanyl doses were not protocol.
@@kkdoc7864 that makes a lot more sense then. The video didn't make that clear. I saw in one of the videos where the pharmacist flagged the withdrawal of the medication with a document that showed the guidelines for withdrawal of mechanical ventilation. I am just having a hard time with the fact that no one caught this before 35 people had been given this amount of medication. That is why I pointed out that this was a systemic failure. Maybe he was going rogue but this many people saw this happened and he was not stopped? That is why I think it wasn't just him that should face charges.
You know it upsets me to see the way they are attacking this doctor for doing what he took an oath to help sick people and help the suffering of people who are in pain.. This doctor only did what he thought was for the best of his dying patient some in the last minutes and hours of dying and he gave them the med's they needed to help them dye as painless as possible.. this doctor is not "Kevorkian"
It’s sad and funny at the same time to watch all this unreliable news coverage, especially that we get to look into the rear view mirror after this major 14 count acquittal
I agree. This documentary was clearly biased and meant to influence the jury before trial. The hospital spoke to witness' before Law Enforcement could to influence their testimony as well. Glad the hospital lost.
How much suffering are you willing to endure? None of these patients were going home. Most were being removed from life support apparatus. I have stage 4 cancer and I've never had any symptoms. Since being diagnosed I've been healthier than ever. I've had one cold in seven years. I used to get 3 or 4 a year. I have a palliative care doctor I just picked up my Norcos tonight. I have no cancer pain. I use them if I can't fall asleep. 1/2 of a #10.
@@melaniecotterell8263 actually my worst fear is dying a painful death i suffer chronic pain however once they put you on the ventilator they cant consent to take those medications some of those people might have lived without the overdose i think the person should choose to live or die you cant play God and decide who lives or dies this a sad case i do believe that puting cancer patients in a medical induced coma so they don't suffer but the person dying should also have that choice and sign a consent form i also worry talking about the opioid epidemic makes getting my own pain meds limited to 4 norco a day which is not enough if your in severe pain
@@melaniecotterell8263 It's not up to the doc to overdose the patient. The decision to allow a terminal patient to die should be up to the patient if they are conscious and able to make that decision, or the family of that patient. It seems the doc enjoyed playing executioner more than he enjoyed being a doctor.
You or your family will ask for more when they see you suffering and now no doctor will help. I hope your family has some good counseling lined up because they’re going to need it after they watch you with your hunger for air, and no doctor will prescribe you anything now due to all of this.
Ok I am here almost 10 years ago I suffered coma 4 times because I have heart attack pulmonary embolism stroke deep venous thrombosis and ended dying with thraqueoctomy and many times I ask God to take me from my misery nobody know what is feel being in bed having machine breathing for u I pull out my thraqueoctomy 3 times even the last time I have to said if they put again I going to kill myself is not joke the people think you are resting in bed but that’s not the true u feel pain let a machine breathe for u is very painful even after that learning everything back is hard because you have to learn everything back eat talk walk and now with the remains is very painful seizures everyday the migraines the bleeding the heart problems that’s not live I give thanks to God for gime more days here because my kids but to be honest see my kids suffering everyday knowing maybe today my mom is not gonna waking up is really bad they live traumatized they calling me all the time asking if I am ok. I wish this doctor was my doctor by that time 😢
The thing is that there are PALLIATIVE CARE SPECIALISTS who could have been involved if it was actually known that death was immanent and for that matter family and clergy should have been notified. This whole story stinks of grievous malpractice by this doctor.
You’re right. There are specialists, but they are never involved with ICU patients on ventilators. Many hospitals have a palliative care unit where comfort care is given. They don’t deal with anyone on life support that is declining. When patients are admitted to a hospice or palliative care unit, both the patients and their families know in advance what the purpose of the admission is. I don’t know why you think the families weren’t notified that death was imminent. They have to give consent to remove life support. Once IV vasopressors and ventilators were removed,, (at least in the pts that are the subjects of this case), there was no chance of survival.
Maybe because he just lost his job, his license that he spent countless years on, and is on criminal trial? I mean how would you sleep and function I’d like to see.
He lost his entire life, suffered from trauma, and now has a neurological problem resulting from the stress and trauma and catastrophic legal bills. He was acquitted of every single count, and his young family now lives on food stamps as of 2024.
So when dying patients were reported as a having excessive air hunger/choking on their own saliva this dr orders medications to help ease the horrible sight families would have to watch and now he’s on trial? It’s really disturbing.
I watched my mother suffer and struggle to breathe for years. At the end it was horrifying to watch, she was terrified. I believe her death was assisted by a wonderful physician and nursing team. Could she possibly have lived another day or two? Probably. It would have been another 24 or 48 hours of struggling for each breath, weezing, coughing, choking, unable to eat, barely able to drink, fear and discomfort came with every excruciating inhalation and exhalation, she was exhausted and unable to sleep because she would be yanked from sleep by suffication. She promised us she'd make it through Christmas and boxing day, about 1am she passed. My dad was with her, the rest of the family had left an hour earlier. It was time. I will forever be grateful for the brave medical team that finally allowed her to go to sleep. peacefully.
There’s much more to this than palliative care and no matter our feelings on this euthanasia is not legal in Ohio.
@@clwhite1127 it's not legal in Montana either, that's why I'm moving to Oregon if something like this happens to me. I refuse to suffer like my sister.
@@clwhite1127 if someone is of sound mind they should be able to decide their own life
Yes, I feel the same about my parents. I hope the same for myself.
What was her illness if you don't mind me asking?
This case should serve as a grim example of how quickly the “general public” can come to conclusions as judge jury and executioner. Chilling to see this kind of behavior in 2024.
Now people will suffer immensely because of fear of prosecution. It’s already impossible to get pain meds even for surgery because people abused them. Hope nobody suffers painful deaths with cancer.
Yes this prosecution is ridiculous and only bad things will come from it.
Exactly what I was thinking.
exactly what I've been saying!! Especially since seeing the trial, this doctor was totally railroaded by this hospital and the totally corrupt leadership. His dosages didn't kill his patients...they were terminally ill and getting worse minute by minute. These ppl were very sick before even seeing Dr. Husel.
I shattered my wrist last May and you know what they gave me until my surgery? #10 hydrocodone 5mg. This was after I told them I'm opioid tolerant. Hydrocodone 5mg barely works for opioid naive ppl, let alone someone who is used to them. Then after surgery I got the same thing, just #30 pills this time. same med and strength though--so I was in severe pain for many many weeks due to my very young surgeon being taught in med school to underprescribe pain meds, bc they're so hyper paranoid of the DEA or being accused of being a "pill pusher". So innocent ppl needlessly suffer. In this case, elderly ppl who died in peace thanks to Dr. Husel, as opposed to someone like some of the doctors that have taken the Stand thus far. Reasonable doubt of murder is oozing from every angle in this case, and I really hope the jury ends up finding him not guilty.
Appropriately prescribed and administered pain medication is always acceptable.
Especially when you have consent.
Even for surgery? Pretty sure somebody coming off a brain surgery is gonna get pain meds post operatively that are MONITORED. This doc never monitored anything.
I'm glad Dr Hussel won. This documentary was clearly biased. It wouldn't surprise me if the hospital had some involvement in the production of this documentary. The way the hospital slandered Dr Hussel as "the Villain" before the trial was quite disturbing. It was a clear attempt to influence the jury. In my opinion, the hospital administration that spoke to the witness' before Law Enforcement should be charged with Obstruction of Justice for influencing the witness' to favor the hospital. Great job by the defense.
This case blew up big time, not guilty on all charges
I am a respiratory therapist, retired after 43 years. Because I managed life sustaining ventilators I was often at bedside for terminally ill patients who were days and moments from death, it is foolish to believe that giving palliative care doesn’t increase the rate at which a patient passes.
He walked free, not Guilty he is innocent
A man hit my brother with a car, he called 911, said he did it. After years of court he wasn't charged. But he still did it and admitted it. He got off by a technicality
@@jilliangrannon1939 insane , my nephew been on life support, last hit him with her truck , she is walking free , his life will never be the same if he makes it
Glad if I'm dieing , please making me comfort Care I would want that with less pain ,
It’s called hospice
Any amount of fentanyl or morphine given after an endotracheal tube and ventilator are removed could more than likely hasten a person’s death, primarily because it suppresses respirations. BUT the purpose of giving those meds is to prevent patient awareness of feeling suffocated and unable to breathe which would be torture. This case boils down to 1) were these patients qualified to be extubated (meet criteria for brain death or irreversibly failed organ systems). or 2). Were the narcotic doses too high? (which does not necessarily matter because the patient was in the process of dying without possibility of recovery once the “breathing tube” was removed).
I Want my doctor to relieve me of suffocating which is everyines worst fear. This is sad. That wife who begged husel to keep her husband comfortable at all costs found out she was gonna get money and said " If I would hae known he would give him that much medicine then I would have said " It is between God and my husband. Let God take him naturally. NO YOU DIDNT AND WOULDNT! I think to many nurses and tem members can and have fought to prove he was an amazing doctor. Why would a serial killer want someone else to murder for them? Is the very act of murder and watching the victim suffer not what gets the serial killer off? This is sad. Now people will suffer cause everyone is so afraid to give medications over fear of jail.
@@heatherinnis5144 I have a problem with the use of the term “brain death” that was used in these cases. It takes a plethora of tests, evaluations, and signatures to arrive at that diagnostic conclusion. If the patient’s family was told their loved ones were “brain dead”, meaning no neurological electrical activity, and he/she was not, that’s a huge problem.
I have been that ventilated patient who needed the conscious sedation and I am an ICU nurse who has given fentanyl and versed for conscious sedation. I have also helped titrate disprovan and morphine to stop a patient from bucking the vent. This doctor is the scapegoat...I can almost guarantee there was a protocol for this that the hospital is not admitting to.
@@amyflanagan2896 I have been an ICU nurse and now an ER DR. The problem with this case is not necessarily giving the sedatives. It is the fact that families were told their loved ones were “brain dead” when it does not look like the procedures were followed to determine if that was a correct diagnosis. If Husel just guessed or actually lied to the family to D/C life support, then that’s a huge problem. In that case, he was making a unilateral decision to “kill” or euthanize the patient without true informed consent. And I happened to have worked at the same hospital where these high fentanyl doses were not protocol.
@@kkdoc7864 that makes a lot more sense then. The video didn't make that clear. I saw in one of the videos where the pharmacist flagged the withdrawal of the medication with a document that showed the guidelines for withdrawal of mechanical ventilation. I am just having a hard time with the fact that no one caught this before 35 people had been given this amount of medication. That is why I pointed out that this was a systemic failure. Maybe he was going rogue but this many people saw this happened and he was not stopped? That is why I think it wasn't just him that should face charges.
You know it upsets me to see the way they are attacking this doctor for doing what he took an oath to help sick people and help the suffering of people who are in pain.. This doctor only did what he thought was for the best of his dying patient some in the last minutes and hours of dying and he gave them the med's they needed to help them dye as painless as possible.. this doctor is not "Kevorkian"
Way to jump to conclusions Channel 10....
It’s sad and funny at the same time to watch all this unreliable news coverage, especially that we get to look into the rear view mirror after this major 14 count acquittal
I agree. This documentary was clearly biased and meant to influence the jury before trial. The hospital spoke to witness' before Law Enforcement could to influence their testimony as well. Glad the hospital lost.
This is horrific! Im terminal and i dont want my doctor killing me in an overdose 😠
How much suffering are you willing to endure? None of these patients were going home. Most were being removed from life support apparatus. I have stage 4 cancer and I've never had any symptoms. Since being diagnosed I've been healthier than ever. I've had one cold in seven years. I used to get 3 or 4 a year. I have a palliative care doctor I just picked up my Norcos tonight. I have no cancer pain. I use them if I can't fall asleep. 1/2 of a #10.
@@melaniecotterell8263 actually my worst fear is dying a painful death i suffer chronic pain however once they put you on the ventilator they cant consent to take those medications some of those people might have lived without the overdose i think the person should choose to live or die you cant play God and decide who lives or dies this a sad case i do believe that puting cancer patients in a medical induced coma so they don't suffer but the person dying should also have that choice and sign a consent form i also worry talking about the opioid epidemic makes getting my own pain meds limited to 4 norco a day which is not enough if your in severe pain
@@melaniecotterell8263 Not sure what your point is here. Bit of a rambling reply. Sorry for your cancer.
@@melaniecotterell8263 It's not up to the doc to overdose the patient. The decision to allow a terminal patient to die should be up to the patient if they are conscious and able to make that decision, or the family of that patient. It seems the doc enjoyed playing executioner more than he enjoyed being a doctor.
You or your family will ask for more when they see you suffering and now no doctor will help. I hope your family has some good counseling lined up because they’re going to need it after they watch you with your hunger for air, and no doctor will prescribe you anything now due to all of this.
Hope he sues all of you
Ok I am here almost 10 years ago I suffered coma 4 times because I have heart attack pulmonary embolism stroke deep venous thrombosis and ended dying with thraqueoctomy and many times I ask God to take me from my misery nobody know what is feel being in bed having machine breathing for u I pull out my thraqueoctomy 3 times even the last time I have to said if they put again I going to kill myself is not joke the people think you are resting in bed but that’s not the true u feel pain let a machine breathe for u is very painful even after that learning everything back is hard because you have to learn everything back eat talk walk and now with the remains is very painful seizures everyday the migraines the bleeding the heart problems that’s not live I give thanks to God for gime more days here because my kids but to be honest see my kids suffering everyday knowing maybe today my mom is not gonna waking up is really bad they live traumatized they calling me all the time asking if I am ok. I wish this doctor was my doctor by that time 😢
Innocent !
The thing is that there are PALLIATIVE CARE SPECIALISTS who could have been involved if it was actually known that death was immanent and for that matter family and clergy should have been notified. This whole story stinks of grievous malpractice by this doctor.
You’re right. There are specialists, but they are never involved with ICU patients on ventilators. Many hospitals have a palliative care unit where comfort care is given. They don’t deal with anyone on life support that is declining. When patients are admitted to a hospice or palliative care unit, both the patients and their families know in advance what the purpose of the admission is. I don’t know why you think the families weren’t notified that death was imminent. They have to give consent to remove life support. Once IV vasopressors and ventilators were removed,, (at least in the pts that are the subjects of this case), there was no chance of survival.
I was born here 😭
Why does this dr. act like he's on something?
Maybe because he just lost his job, his license that he spent countless years on, and is on criminal trial? I mean how would you sleep and function I’d like to see.
He lost his entire life, suffered from trauma, and now has a neurological problem resulting from the stress and trauma and catastrophic legal bills. He was acquitted of every single count, and his young family now lives on food stamps as of 2024.