Here's the latest from the trial of former Mount Carmel doctor William Husel
The prosecution team is calling a series of attending physicians to the stand, beginning Monday and continuing into Tuesday, who signed off on the death certificates and other paperwork for the death of the patients Husel is accused of killing.
On Monday afternoon, Dr. David Ralston, the medical director for the intensive care unit at Mount Carmel West during Husel's employment, said he had never given a dose of more than five or six milligrams of morphine. That dose would equate to about 50 or 60 micrograms of fentanyl, significantly less than the 500, 1,000 or 2,000 micrograms Husel is accused of ordering for patients who died under his care.
During additional questioning from Assistant Franklin County Prosecutor David Zeyen, Roth said he and Trinity Health did not do anything to"frame" Husel. Attorneys for Husel had argued Mount Carmel had attempted to make Husel a"villain" in the public's eyes. The second witness to testify Monday was Dr. David Ralston, who was the medical director for the intensive care unit at Mount Carmel West while Husel worked there.
The team of prosecutors from the Franklin County Prosecutor's office has been following a long-standing tradition within that office of not discussing a case publicly with the media during the course of a trial.