A federal jury has convicted Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz on all 10 counts he faces connected to tampering with IV bags.
Ortiz was an anesthesiologist at Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas in the summer of 2022; His actions caused surgery patients to have medical emergencies.
Ortiz is also tied to the death of a fellow anesthesiologist, Dr. Melanie Kaspar. She died after administering an IV bag to herself after feeling sick. The bag was also allegedly tainted by Ortiz, but prosecutors did not charge Ortiz in Kaspar’s death.
He was tampering with the IV bags by injecting a nerve agent.
Does anyone have an idea of motive? I saw a couple of articles about this but don’t see the motive.
A suggested motive is that he was angry about being investigated for mistakes he made during surgery, so he was trying to make other doctors look bad too. It’s in this article
So… psychopath.
Is there a motive that would make it make sense?
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