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'Mercy killings' and transplants: When are we dead?

A Pillar interview

Charlie Camosy
Apr 29, 2022
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An Ohio physician, Dr. William Husel, was acquitted in a murder trial this month; he was accused of murdering 14 patients to whom he had given lethal doses of fentanyl. The case raised questions about medical ethics, palliative care, and “mercy killings.”

Among expert witnesses in the trial was Dr. Wes Ely, a professor at Vanderbilt …

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