Monthly Archives: September 2022

Dallas doctor dubbed ‘medical terrorist’ after caught tampering with IV bags

Dr. Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr. could face the death penalty if convicted of putting heart-stopping drugs in patient IV bags

A Texas doctor allegedly injected poison into IV bags, causing the death of a fellow physician and cardiac emergencies in 11 other patients, at a Dallas facility in retaliation for a medical misconduct probe, federal court papers allege.

Anesthesiologist Raynaldo Rivera Ortiz Jr., 59, was arrested Sept. 15 — one week after the Texas Medical Board yanked his license after a string of healthy patients suffered mysterious and life-threatening complications during routine surgeries from May to August. None of the patients were under his care.

“Respondent’s continued practice of medicine poses a continuing threat to public welfare,” the board wrote in its suspension order.

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The ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ Machines Exhibition | Museum Access (Video)

Leslie steps back in time to the world of Leonardo da Vinci. This special exhibition is now traveling North America. The working models on view were hand crafted from da Vinci’s original drawings. We get a Behind-the-Scenes look into the workshop in Florence, Italy where all of these hands-on models were crafted.

Complete Classic Movie: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

Stars: Kurt Russell, Debbie Paine, Joe Flynn, Cesar Romero. At Medfield College, an accident with a donated computer gives Dexter Riley the ability to remember any knowledge learned instantly and perfectly.

Click here to watch The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

Complete Classic Movie: The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Dorothy Lamour. Mistaken identity and the acquisition of a rare Tibetan herb put two buffoonish con men on the wrong side of a secret organization geared toward world domination.

Complete Classic Movie: Road to Singapore (1940)

Casts: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn, Bing Crosby. Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

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Series: Father Knows Best – Season 5

Cast: Billy Gray, Elinor Donahue, Jane Wyatt, Lauren Chapin, Robert Young. The popular radio show comes to life in this hit sitcom about a wise family man, Jim Anderson, his common-sense wife Margaret and their children Betty, Bud and Kathy.

Click here to watch Father Knows Best – Season 5.

Movie One Sheets: Two Mules for Sister Sara

Two Mules for Sister Sara is a 1970 American-Mexican Western film in Panavision directed by Don Siegel and starring Shirley MacLaine (billed above Clint Eastwood in the film’s credits, but not on the poster) set during the French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867). The film was to have been the first in a five-year exclusive association between Universal Pictures and Sanen Productions of Mexico.

KT Tunstall – Suddenly I See

Official Video

Complete Classic Movie: Blackbeard’s Ghost (1968)

Stars: Dean Jones, Peter Ustinov, Suzanne Pleshette. An unassuming track coach accidentally invokes the spirit of a notorious pirate long believed dead, and who must now team up to lay the pirate to rest, and save a local hotel from a mobster.

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Who Was Colonel Crawford? Torture on the Ohio Frontier (Video)

Colonel William Crawford was a trapper, land surveyor, farmer, and judge. He survived Braddock’s Defeat during the French and Indian War, then led men during the American Revolution, first as Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Virginia, then as Colonel in command of the 7th Virginia. Crawford led his men across the Deleware River on Christmas Eve with Washington’s Army, fought at Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, and Germantown, and was eventually transferred to the Western Department of the Continental Army to oversee actions on the frontier.