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Ex-Air Force nurse on trial for killing 3 patients
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Source: AP
November 16, 2009
Last spring at an Article 32 hearing — the military equivalent to a civilian grand jury — Fontana's co-workers and medical experts indicated it was unlikely anyone with medical training would not understand the fatal risks of dispensing such high doses. One of the alleged victims, a 74-year-old stroke patient, died after receiving 70 milligrams of morphine in a span of 70 minutes, a quantity doctors testified as very dangerous.
