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Dr. Rapin Osathanondh indicted in the death of Laura Hope Smith
Doctor charged with manslaughter in death of abortion patient
A doctor has been charged with manslaughter in the death of one of his patients after an abortion procedure last year on Cape Cod, prosecutors said today.
Dr. Rapin Osathanondh has been indicted by a grand jury for manslaughter in the death of Laura Hope Smith (on right) at the Women's Health Center on Camp Street in Hyannis on Sept. 13, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said today.
The charges came after an investigation by the Barnstable police, State Police, and the Board of Registration in Medicine, O'Keefe said in a statement.
See link to charges below
The board alleged, among other things, that Osathanondh had placed the patient under sedation without any means of cardiac monitoring and no blood pressure cuff. The board said the doctor had no assistant who could administer sedation and monitor the patient and no assistant who could assist in resuscitating her. And it said he "failed to timely initiate a call to 911." The board also alleged that Osathanondh had made a variety of false statements.
The board said Osathanondh tried to waken the patient after the
procedure, but she did not respond. She was later transported to the
hospital, where she was pronounced dead... Globe.
Osathanondh did the abortion on 22-year-old Laura Smith, who died in
September at his Women's Health Center abortion business. Eileen
Smith, Laura's mother, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against
Osathanondh in Barnstable Superior Court on March 10. Osathanondh, 65, graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Mahidol
University, Thailand, in 1967. He received his license to practice
medicine in Massachusetts in 1974. He was a solo practitioner at the
Women's Health Center, according to the board.
Read the previous reports below:
- Abortion doctor on trial
- Laura Smith's mother remembers
- Doc gives up license over Sandwich abortion death
- Charges in abortion death?
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You must walk on water to justify such a bold statement.
I'm speechless.
I guess.
Third World medicine by a Third World doctor for a Third World patient.
Right here in Cape Cod. Ex-USA, now Third World.
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