WILLIAM HUSEL CASE: Full timeline of murder trial acquittal

[@shazdave8886]

My dad was dying and they drugged him up. I was grateful. He was comfortable and not scared of his passing

[@Glowbug18]

I think until someone's family member us dying a painful death will they understand. I'm grateful for Hospice.

[@petekdemircioglu]

Its inhumane and criminal to watch what you are trained and swore to stop.

[@aryastark575]

​@@petekdemirciogluThey are trained to save & preserve life, not end it. This isn't a vets office. They don't have that right.

[@PrdDad]

This destroyed him. He's living in his parents home with 5 kids. In a small addition. His PTSD is so serious its affected his motor skills. Dude can barley tie his shoes. This cost him everything. Family is on food stamps. And he's likly mentally disabled from this. If he recovers he will never have the same life. Our justice system is broken. CA just released 7000 pedophiles from jail before most even served a year of there sentence. America is dying.

[@rhondawinchester4292]

So sad

[@faithbasedliving9391]

It’s awful. And you’re right. Most of California’s politicians should be in jail. In 2022 they stopped forcing literal pedo****** from registering as s** offenders if there was “only” a 10 year age gap. In other words if a male is 24, he wouldn’t have to register as an offender if he had relations with a 14 year old boy. Disgusting.

[@leannerobinson1536]

And as a nurse, I'm sick of hearing people complain about not being able to get pain medication. This is what you get when you try to get rich off the back of someone else instead of doing your own damn work.

[@froggynzack]

Yeah i just came across that video just now and. I had to look up who this dude even was. Thats so sad.

[@DelhiMan-xb8nm]

Justice is done. Dr. Husel was only rendering his duty as a doctor. He provided comfort care to terminally ill patients in severe pain.

[@leannerobinson1536]

No justice is not done. They took his medical license and his family is destitute.

[@TheJustinlm24]

at least this mess of a prosecution was able to convince 2 jurors to hold out for a couple days. What a sham. Thank god this man can live his life now. Baez does it again. the GOAT!

[@randymorgan7133]

Poor man..went through hell.

[@damianpiccardi718]

I watched this case. I didn't believe he was guilty of murder. Glad he's off.

[@song9119]

Not guilty said the jury 14 times

[@corrlee]

Omg do people want their loved ones to suffer to the end!? That’s where we’re headed with this type of litigation! My father and my uncle were both mercifully given “comfort meds” in their final days.. if the doctors wouldn’t have I would’ve and I’d probably be sitting in jail rn!

[@WeThePeeps1]

I've been living with chronic pain for the last 6 years because, to properly "manage" it, would mean overdosing me....at least, over time. That's what I've been told and to that I say...... SO WHAT?! WHO WANTS TO LIVE LIKE THIS? I appreciate Dr. Husel and what he was doing, I really do.❤

[@Me-hf4ii]

My grandfather had bone cancer. It was in his spine. The pain was so extreme that 1000x the dose of morphine didn’t touch it. Doctors continued to up the dose to try to make his last moments as comfortable as possible. It didn’t kill him. He eventually rejected any more painkillers and chose to embrace and pain in his final moments. It was coming off the painkillers that seemed to finally allow him to embrace what was coming. Somehow he overcame the pain in the final moments and went to sleep. He stayed alive until all his kids were around him (they were traveling from all over the country). Once everyone was there, he went peacefully. He didn’t wake again to say goodbye with words, but he remained in his body until all his children could say goodbye. I find it hard to believe that administration of pain relief in these types of horrible painful conditions that WILL cause death could ever be considered attempted murder or murder. I am against assisted dying. But I don’t think that’s what giving pain relief to people who are dying the most excruciating deaths imaginable is. Sometimes the relief given by the pain killer is enough for them to let go - and sometimes (like with my grandfather) it isn’t. Sometimes you keep upping the dose to try to find what is therapeutic for them - and sometimes that therapeutic dose is enough for them to embrace the inevitable. I think they should be told (if possible) that you are doing, so they can prepare to let go or hold on according to their will. As for how long it takes to die after coming off a ventilator: My father in law had a post-operative arrhythmia that caused cardiac arrest. After they got his heart beating again, he never regained consciousness. They put him on a respirator, trying to give him time to recover. But he was gone, brain dead. The decision was made to take him off the ventilator. Afterwards he was breathing for about 4 minutes. It was so eerie. He wasn’t supposed to be able to breathe on his own at all, and we thought: maybe he will wake up! And then, it stopped. Very suddenly. He died officially. Without any assistance from any pain killers. If someone is going to die off a ventilator, that death usually comes quick. Seems to me, 8 minutes is within the expected timeframe.

[@kelliesharpe1067]

BOTH of my parents were put on “comfort measures” as they died. In other words, they were given a morphine pump with the nurses knowing it would make them pass quickly. They literally said those words to us. So were my parents murdered?

[@liztewliztew]

Interesting question. I guess this depends on whether or not you wanted your parents to remain alive despite their excruciating pain or to be forever alleviated of their pain.

[@kelliesharpe1067]

@@liztewliztew of course I didn’t. And I don’t think they were murdered. I couldn’t sign the consent for my father, however. My son did. I was abused as a kid in every way a kid can be abused. I didn’t want to ever deal with my own soul over why I really signed that consent. He was mean to his last coherent words. And then I sat alone with him since nobody else was willing to be there and I held his hand as he died. I had to see him as just another human being who was dying alone. I couldn’t think of it any other way or I couldn’t have done it. But I did. And then I broke the laws of gravity to get to Chilhowee Mountain in time to watch sunrise. We cope how we cope and I cope best on top of mountains. That was a hell of a day.

[@ahem....bullsheet3720]

That's what hospice does right?

[@jayburbs15]

Scumbag court system. Leave this guy alone, already this world has ruined his life.

[@juanitawashington106]

Wow they fired the whistle blower smh

[@TheLows-gk6kc]

So glad the jury gotw itw rightw, shamew on the prosecutor and Dr Husel's employer

[@Bailemos888]

I hope hes doing better

[@tonydebaka3967]

the not guilty verdict does not mean that the ?dr. was practicing " good " at no point during this trial the defense was able to justify the very high doses the dr. was prescribing. he got away with reckless homicide

[@HaitianPrincess4Real]

Dang!!! Jose Baez has mastered the art of getting murderers acquitted...ask Casey Anthony! Where was he today to take his victory walk???

[@gsf23]

Or has he mastered to art of making the State actually have to prove their case instead of just railroading people into jail. If you watched the trial, which I did, you would have seen that the State provided no actual proof that Dr. Husel intended to kill anyone and no actual proof that the doses of pain meds he ordered were what actually killed these patients. This was more situation of the State not proving their case more than is was Baez getting him acquitted.

[@michellehorn336]

Jose Baez had other cases starting. So that might be the reason why Jose Baez not at court. Do not forget the other lawyer brought him back into the case.

[@sharonlee_333]

You can’t compare that nut case to this man that was doing something to relieve pain from ppl that were inevitably going to die

[@hedykarim3614]

When you get a medical degree come back and comment

[@HaitianPrincess4Real]

@@hedykarim3614 thank you Karen

[@zoeplassman456]

Will never understand how he got acquitted

[@hedykarim3614]

It’s called democracy and freedom

[@existentialhangover1124]

There's probably a lot of things about life you don't understand. 😂

[@ahem....bullsheet3720]

He basically done what hospice does every day

[@nancismith7705]

Ask a hospice nurse about pain use and you will see that this is being done for hospice patients all over the US. This is normal hospice care. Cancer can cause intractable pain! This Doctor was railroaded and his life destroyed!

[@nopenope9118]

Right to die is a real issue. I wouldn’t want to live in horrible pain or as a vegetable for decades. Kevorkian was a hero. I literally just listened to a story on NPR today about how 25% of people in vegetative states are actually conscious of what’s going on around them. That’s HORRIFYING. That’s the worst thing I can imagine. I’m 35 and I read Johnny Got His Gun in high school and no thank you, please put me out of my misery.

[@iMatti00]

👎 @1:06 ~ MISLEADING! You said that more than one colleague had accusations against this doctor, but that’s not how I would characterize it as. One pharmacist submitted a report saying that a lot of painkillers were being used because he thought somebody was stealing the painkillers, it wasn’t actually about Dr Husel at the time. The pharmacist that first noticed a red flag had his supervisors submit the report, so I guess you could say that’s technically two people but when you phrase it like that it makes it sound like people were questioning this doctor when they absolutely were NOT. All the other medical professionals and all the pharmacist that also were involved in these prescriptions of painkillers never raise the alarm saying there’s a problem with Dr Husel’s prescriptions. So if you’re going to write a timeline then you need to make sure that it is accurate to the common viewers mind, not misleading.