June 9, 2013

When the breast-cancer doctor attacks the lung-and-head-cancer doctor — with ethylene glycol in the coffee.

Things that may be true:
1. They're in love.

2. Antifreeze tastes like Splenda.

3. "She is a distinguished citizen and scientist, and these allegations are totally inconsistent with her personal and professional life."

25 comments:

rhhardin said...

It's a three-way with the kidney doctor.

Unknown said...

A veterinarian would have known to inject grain alcohol into his veins and potentially save his kidneys.

Anonymous said...

You had me several years ago
when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
and one of them was me
I had some dreams,
they were Ethylene Glycol in my coffee
Ethylene Glycol in my coffee...

cubanbob said...

The Daily Mail. A guilty pleasure. Especially the bikini photos of good looking woman.

madAsHell said...

You're a physician, and this is your best idea?

I think I'd plead insanity because that is one bat-shit crazy idea!!

edutcher said...

Like the astronette that drove across TX in a diaper?

Petunia said...

That really WAS a BSC idea, and if she really wanted him dead, you'd think, as a "distinguished scientist", she'd be able to figure out a better way to kill him.

Ethylene glycol DOES taste sweet and it DOES cause renal failure, which is why so many animals are at risk. If the owner gets them to the vet quickly enough, they can be saved.

And of course the animals can't tell their owners in so many words that they don't feel well, or get themselves to the doctor. So they're less likely to get medical help in time, than a human who doesn't feel well and goes to the ER.

Unknown said...

Yes, really stupid because it would take a lot more than you could disguise in a cup of coffee to kill him. She gave him just enough to make him really sick, which obviously going to send him to anhospital where they'd learn that he'd been poisoned.

Well, allegedly, I guess. Maybe he'd accidentally grabbed a bottle of antifreeze from his garage and chugged it, and then coincidentally she offered him a cup of coffee with Splenda in it shortly afterward.

chickelit said...

Cats are particularly susceptible to ethylene glycol poisoning from leaky radiators, carelessness, malice, etc.--especially if they have a sweet tooth.

YoungHegelian said...

When I read the names of the doctors, I thought back to the time when Lorena Bobbitt was in the news, I asked some question to the grocery check-out lady what she thought about a tabloid headline.

This young lady, who is a Filipina, uttered in a loud voice, "Oh, she's guilty. Those Latinas --- they're just crazy. Crazy, I tell you!"

Good little white guy in a heavily blue county that I am, I just nodded.

BAS said...

I hope they have proof. Coffee cups that she didn't wash out? Someone saw her put it in? This may be a stupid of me to say but perhaps there were other people who wanted to kill the guy.

Irene said...

"Things that may be true:"

4. Breast cancer wants all the attention.

JPS said...

Anyone remember the woman who tried to poison Starbucks customers? She was caught slipping a legit-looking container of orange juice and isopropanol into the fridge.

The hilarious thing to me was, isopropanol really isn't very toxic. The dose required to kill you is about the same as for ethanol, but it's a lot less fun. So really, if she hadn't been caught, the victim would have taken a gulp, exclaimed, "What the f-? There's rubbing alcohol in this orange juice," and been perfectly fine.

Sydney said...

It is a strange choice for a physician, unless she wasn't paying attention to the how-to-anti-freeze-poisoning lectures in medical school. (It's a common and classic lecture that teaches a lot about acid-base balance and lab testing.) Poisoning him with potassium would have been a lot cleaner and harder to detect. Although, I'm not sure how it would make your coffee taste.

robinintn said...

Things that may be true:

4. Second-tier professional women are BS crazy.

Unknown said...

I like Splenda. Anybody else like Splenda? It doesn't trigger migraines like NutraSweet (aspartame). Anyone got any Splenda?

Stephen Taylor said...

M. D. Anderson saved my son's life when he had cancer, way back in 1995. All the same, the hospital is staffed with human beings with the same frailties and shortcomings as the rest of us. This sort of reminds me of the astronaut love triangle at NASA a few years ago.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...
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Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Things that may be true:

4. Its not personal.

Anonymous said...

The worst thing is that she's basically gotten off without punishment: out free on bail, and still getting paid without having to work.

Peter

Michael K said...

She's pretty hot looking. Maybe it was worth it.

campy said...

The worst thing is that she's basically gotten off without punishment:

She's pretty hot looking

Of course. Hot-looking women are rarely punished when they kill men they're involved with.

Carl said...

Silly goose. She should have stuck to destroying his property or mutilating his penis. Then it would just have been funny.

Michelle Dulak Thomson said...

Why do I think this story would generate a whole different set of comments if he'd tried to poison her?

cplschnapps said...

It's absolutely true because I read it in the Daily Mail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI