COLUMBUS — A former Mount Carmel physician has surrendered his medical license, leading the state medical board to permanently revoke it.
Dr. William Husel will no longer be able to practice medicine in the state of Ohio, according to our news partners at WBNS in Columbus.
A jury found Husel not guilty of 14 counts of murder last month.
Dr. William Husel was accused of killing 14 patients by overprescribing medications, such as fentanyl, WBNS reported
His acquittal came three years after the state medical board suspended his license and he was fired from the Mount Carmel Health System.
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“I understand that as a result of the permanent surrender herein I will no longer be permitted to practice osteopathic medicine and surgery in any form or manner in the state of Ohio,” Husel wrote in a two-page letter.
According to WBNS, he surrender his license in a letter to the State Medical Board of Ohio on May 5.
The board voted on May 11 to permanently revoke his license to practice in the state.
Defense attorneys for Husel argued to he was providing comfort care medications to dying patients in order to prevent them from suffering.
Husel served as a nighttime critical care physician at Mount Carmel between 2013 and 2018, but was fired in 2018 after questions were raised about his patient care. He was indicted on 25 counts of murder in June 2019, but prosecutors dropped 11 charges in January 2022.
The majority of the 14 patients were given 1,000 micrograms of fentanyl or more, according to WBNS.
Jurors took roughly six days to deliberate after nearly seven weeks of testimony, which included hearing from 54 witnesses, WBNS reported. They were given the option to choose between murder or a lesser charge of attempted murder, but ultimately found Husel not guilty on all 14 counts.
WBNS spoke to one of the jurors in the trial, Damon Massey said that “the prosecution did not give us enough to call this man guilty in the court of law, but a lot of us felt like the way he handled things, he was guilty of something.”