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In its investigation of Dr. Kevin Buckwalter, the Sun asked experts to review the medical records of four of his patients, with the patients or his familys permission. In each case they concluded Buckwalters negligence had contributed to the patients death or overdose.

Andrea Duncan was being prescribed more than 150 narcotic painkillers a month and as many as 300 Xanax pills at a time. At 2 mg each, the Xanax tablets were four to eight times a typical dose, experts said. She overdosed in August 2005 and died.

Barbara Baile, 69, began seeing Buckwalter in April 2004 complaining of pain in her hips and back. Baile died in April, a victim of one of the side effects of narcotics severe constipation, which ruptured her bowels and caused her death by sepsis. Her death should have been prevented, experts said.

Buckwalter prescribed Michael Hammond, a Las VegasLas Vegas (las va`gs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.
..... Click the link for more information. business executive, more than 17,000 narcotic painkillers in

3 years, until June 2008 even after Hammond had overdosed on the pills.

Staci Voyda was an OxyContin addict who was 19 when she went to Buckwalter in February 2007 to get off drugs. Over an 11-day period this summer, Buckwalter prescribed her 310 pills of oxycodone, the primary ingredient in her drug of choice, OxyContin. Two weeks later, on Aug. 26, Voyda put a gun to her head and killed herself.

what kind of a monster is he???????? how did these meds benefit any of his patients????
i am shocked and sickened that this man is NOT in prison.