Some people will do anything for money.

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Tomorrow Wednesday evening Feb 27, CNBC's American Greed will feature the story about that pharmacist that watered down chemo for cancer patients for financial gain. Just wanted to clue you in if you are interested.

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Oh yes, I will be watching. Thanks for the reminder.

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Tomorrow Wednesday evening Feb 27, CNBC's American Greed will feature the story about that pharmacist that watered down chemo for cancer patients for financial gain. Just wanted to clue you in if you are interested.

I will be watching too.

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Specializes in CNA, Surgical, Pediatrics, SDS, ER.

That is soooooo sad. I just don't know what is wrong with some people in this country. How many lives has this person screwed around w/ and how many of them were fatal? That just angers me to my core. I hope this person gets the book thrown at them.

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Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.
tomorrow wednesday evening feb 27, cnbc's american greed will feature the story about that pharmacist that watered down chemo for cancer patients for financial gain. .

:angryfirehope he enjoys playing poker with hitler, stalin, and polpot..:devil:

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I remember reading about this some time ago. Please tell me he's in jail.

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I remember reading about this some time ago. Please tell me he's in jail.
Yes this story is a year or two old. However, I intend to watch it because I want to find out the details. Whether he is in prison or not is one of the details I am interested in as well as the fate of the people who got the incorrect cancer treatments.
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SOCIOPATH!!!

Let me at him!

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Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

The medical field is literally scary. We place our faith in these people to heal us. Who is to say that for YEARS, cancers that were actually curable have not been reported as such, because this can be a long standing habit going on for many, many years. That frightens me, for sure. You can have an ethical nurse and physician, however, how many people actually see the pharmacist mixing these drugs?? HORRIBLE!!!!

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This story especially disgusted me because I am a pharmacist. It happened about 5 years ago; I recall the time because of what else I was doing at the time.

Robert Courtney, the pharmacist and business owner who did this, is indeed in prison and will probably die there. What's REALLY despicable is that he did this to fulfill a huge pledge he made to his church!

I saw stories (more than once) on non-medical message boards about people in the Kansas City area who used infusion facilities serviced by him whose cancer progressed rapidly and their doctors were completely perplexed as to why. He also compounded fertility treatments, and those doctors were wondering why their patients all of a sudden stopped getting pregnant. Also, many of the nurses questioned him because many of these drugs have very distinct colors, and all of a sudden, they were clear. He said they had been reformulated, and the nurses had no idea he was lying.

One of my trade magazines had a story (well, they all did, but this one stood out in particular) about this pharmacy, and this one story was about the people who bought the business. They destroyed all the stock, because they didn't want to take any chances, and called all the TV stations in the region to do news stories about it.

This had me :lol2: although it really isn't funny. One of the stations carried the entire process live from start to finish. Some women were a little upset that their soap operas weren't on, but that happened on 9/11 too.

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p.s. These patients and their practitioners were just as puzzled as to why their hair didn't fall out, they experienced no nausea or any of the other side effects common to chemo patients, etc.

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Specializes in med/surg.
The medical field is literally scary. We place our faith in these people to heal us. Who is to say that for YEARS, cancers that were actually curable have not been reported as such, because this can be a long standing habit going on for many, many years. That frightens me, for sure. You can have an ethical nurse and physician, however, how many people actually see the pharmacist mixing these drugs?? HORRIBLE!!!!

Don't want to appear retarded but didn't quite understand what you said about "cancers that were actually curable have not be reported as such." Do you mean that research has discovered that some cancers have been found that were curable but do not publicize it because it is not profitable? I'm sorry, from all I know about healthcare or lack of it, and worked several days at a Rehab hospital where a patient was returned to the facility and for the 23 days she was there, nurses did not follow Dr's orders and check the INRs, and call the doctor. They just continued giving Coumadin every day. They did not even order the INRs. When they decided to send the patient to the hospital, she died when she got to the hospital of massive brain hemorrhage. Certainly, the doctor should take responsibility. How could he not know if he got no morning calls for 23 days reporting the INRs that were not done? Although I'll believe anything now, I can't fathom what an evil thing that pharmacist did to other human beings for the sake of greed.

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