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Previously, on revisionist history.

He was taken out of his cell, thinking that his execution was imminent, strapped to a gurney,

and he's asking, you know, the corrections officers who are with them, what's going on?

You know, an anesthesiologist in good standing is not going to spend their Wednesdays over at the, you know, state corrections, sticking IVs in people for execution. It's not something that we do.

Because a cold-blooded, convicted killer complains about the prodding and poking of a small IB line.

Really?

Potting and poking with a needle?

After three and a half or four hours being strapped to a gurney,

you know, he was unable to stand, walk, unbuttoned his shirt, you know,

change his clothes, do any of that without assistance. They attempted to kill him on November 17th.

His lawyers called me, I think 10 days later.

I didn't know them.

They didn't know me.

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