A longtime North Texas doctor was denied bail Monday on federal charges related to allegations that he injected IV bags with drugs that caused almost a dozen...
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that started late last month into serious cardiac complications suffered by patients at the center and the death of 55-year-old Melanie Kaspar, another anesthesiologist at the facility. The Texas Medical Board was contacted by federal authorities about the criminal investigation earlier this month and suspended Ortiz’s medical license Sept. 9 after concluding he posed “imminent peril” to public health.
Daniel Allgeyer, special agent with the Food and Drug Administration, testified that a patient in one of Ortiz’s surgeries on May 19 experienced an obstructed airway, prompting a disciplinary inquiry less than a week later. Two days after the inquiry, the first of the dozen recent cardiac emergency incidents happened, Allgeyer said.
Most recently, two nurses at the center refused to talk to law enforcement for this latest investigation, saying they were afraid of him. One specifically said “they know of his violent past,” Allgeyer said.
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