Federal prosecutors say a Dallas anesthesiologist has been convicted for injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluid at a surgical center where he worked, which led to the death of a coworker and caused cardiac emerg...
FILE - This photo provided by the Dallas Police Department shows Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. Jr. Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz. Jr. a Dallas anesthesiologist was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022 after federal investigators accused him of tampering with patients' bags of intravenous fluids. Federal prosecutors say Ortiz Jr.
“Dr. Ortiz cloaked himself in the white coat of a healer, but instead of curing pain, he inflicted it,” U.S. Attorney Leigha Simonton for the northern district of Texas said in a video statement.
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