During Tuesday's testimony in the murder trial of former Mount Carmel doctor William Husel, Dr. John Walther Schweiger, a Tampa anesthesiologist and critical care physician continued to question the lack of ample documentation of medication and response during care of Husel’s patients.
Schweiger criticized Husel’s oversight and dosage of painkillers for 74-year old Danny Mollette who died after receiving 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl in December 2017.
“There was no description in the medical record that would have indicated a need for high doses or the multiple administration of medications' said Schweiger. "In this case, he received two separate narcotics or opioids, the fentanyl, and dilaudid, but then the additional fentanyl.”
Husel is charged with the murder of 14 of his patients by over-prescribing painkillers. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
