doctor vilvarajah

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Tennessee anesthesiologist Visuvalingam Vilvarajah was arrested and charged in Kentucky with writing a lot of recreational prescriptions. His license had been revoked earlier after he was convicted of murdering his wife and mother-in-law, but then he "paid his debt to society" (by serving 5 yrs of his 20-yr sentence), and when he got out, the state re-licensed him. (Bonus: The state health dept. doctors said that was routine procedure, that murdering two people does not reflect on your ability to administer pain medication.) The Tennessean

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Posted By: Chuck - Tue Feb 10, 2009
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I'll that with a name like Visuvalingam Vilvarajah he comes from way, way back in them thar hill of Tenn.

New skill set learned while enjoying life in the big house?

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 02/10/09 at 10:26 AM

I kinda figured murdering people violated that Hippocratic Oath thingy them there doctors had to take.

Posted by Matt in Florida on 02/10/09 at 10:51 AM

I guess it all depends on how he murdered them. If it wasn't with anesthetics, then maybe it doesn't reflect on his skills as a doctor.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 02/10/09 at 10:57 AM

He's only killed people intentionaly, so that's fine. It's only bad when doctors do it by accident.

Posted by Lovemonkey on 02/10/09 at 12:40 PM

You're my favourite monkey, Lovemonkey. Don't ever change.

Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 02/10/09 at 01:09 PM

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