What happened at Mount Carmel hospital? And could it happen at your hospital?
Over a four-year period—from September 2014 through November 2018—at least 35 patients in the ICU at Mount Carmel West Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, were given excessive doses of fentanyl ordered by one doctor, William Husel, MD. All of the patients died, and an investigation by the Mount Carmel Health System found that for 28 of those patients, the doses were large enough to have caused their deaths. The