A Maryland doctor has lost his medical license after suffocating six people to death in assisted suicides.
Baltimore anesthesiologist who made national news as “The New Doctor Death” held the hands of six elderly Marylanders as they asphyxiated themselves with helium and then covered up their suicides, officials said in a state order they filed this month to strip him of his medical license.
The suicides are among nearly 300 nationwide that Dr. Lawrence D. Egbert said he helped to arrange as an “exit guide” for the right-to-die group Final Exit Network.
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The Maryland Board of Physicians, which conducted a two-year review of his actions in the state, said they were unethical and illegal and revoked his license.
Egbert plans to appeal. He is awaiting trial in Minnesota and has been arrested in Georgia but received “no punishment” there or in Arizona. The Sun couldn’t get the Board of Physicians or law enforcement to confirm any criminal referral or investigation.
In opposition to church law, Heather Mizeur (a Catholic) pushed for assisted suicide legalizationp as part of her failed primary campaign for governor. It appears there may be a push during the 2015 legislative session for legalization by activists including a group called Compassion & Choices.
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I would hope the general assembly would have the common sense not to pass this legislation and I wouldn’t expect Governor-elect Hogan to sign it.
LifeNews Note: Jeff Quinton is the author of the Quinton Report, based in Maryland, where this originally appeared.
