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True Crimecast

True Crime To-Go - Google Your Doctors

True Crimecast

Stove Leg Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

When a doctor gets caught abusing drugs, what should the punishment be? Jail time? Losing his license? And should patients have the right to know about their legal history?

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0:00.0

Hey I know you guys are a food joint but like my knees hurting but I want a doctor who

0:21.0

has a really sketchy background.

0:31.0

Welcome to true crime to go. I am John with my boy Jamie. How you doing man?

0:36.5

That was a weird order. Never got a medical advice at a drive-through before.

0:41.0

Well you know sometimes they might be better than the doctors that you go to.

0:45.0

Especially the doctors are into shady stuff like you said.

0:48.0

So we've only got 10 minutes for this crime story. Give us rolling.

0:51.0

This one hits close to home man like in geography wise and personally so we'll get into that more later.

0:58.0

But in 2018 there's a central Kentucky doctor named Michael Helge.

1:04.0

How you say it?

1:05.0

I would say Helge.

1:06.0

Helge?

1:07.0

Yeah. Let's just go with that.

1:08.0

And he performed three surgeries in a day on May 2018.

1:14.0

During the first surgery the attending nurse noticed that the doctor wasn't acting right.

1:19.0

During the second surgery he seemed to be acting even worse.

1:23.0

And by the third surgery his eyes were closed and he was mumbling rather than using words.

1:29.0

That's when she called for the team to stop the operation.

1:33.0

And because of his behavior he was drug tested and he failed.

1:37.0

The doctor tested positive for fentanyl and ambion.

1:42.0

If there's ever a time when I don't want somebody to be under the influence,

1:47.0

I feel like having me under an eye when I'm unconscious is one of those.

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