You've heard the stories about bloody murder and horrendous homicide, but what about the rest of the crimes committed on a daily basis? Mugshot is a single narrator story telling podcast that brings you the crimes you didn't know you needed to hear... Robbery, fraud, arson, stalking, assault, and more.
Hundreds of cancer patients experienced treatment failures. Several doctors couldn't figure out why. Cancer is unpredictable, but certain aspects of it aren't. A common factor was eventually found in an unsuspecting place.
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[…] On August 7th and 8th, 2001, Courtney personally prepared the chemotherapy infusions, initialed the bags himself, and delivered them directly to Hunter's office. The drugs were immediately transferred to federal custody and sent to the FDA's forensic chemistry lab for analysis. The results removed any remaining ambiguity. Samples prepared on August 7th contained as little as 17% and no more than 39% of the prescribed dosage. Samples from August 8th contained less than 30% of the required concentration, and in some cases, no detectable chemotherapy at all. According to federal investigators, patients receiving those infusions would have been given little more than saline solution. […]
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