Pharmacist drew blood for bogus study
March 23, 2002 Posted: 11:25 AM EST (1625 GMT)
NEWTON, Kansas (AP) -- A pharmacist pleaded guilty Friday to 16 counts of misdemeanor battery for drawing blood from people for a bogus study.
Prosecutors recommended Corey Penner, 29, be placed on probation for two years. He also must undergo a mental evaluation.
Penner had been charged with 31 counts of misdemeanor battery, but the other charges were dismissed.
Penner told the people whose blood he took that it was for research, but his lawyer, Jim Gillmore, has said there was no study and Penner couldn't explain why he took the blood.
Police said Penner drew blood samples and took blood pressure readings from about 50 people over the past 11 years.
The victims willingly gave the blood and some received up to $20 for it. But authorities said because the incidents involved touching and fraud, they met one definition of battery.
I MEAN, ITS PRETTY FUNNY; WHY THE HELL WAS HE DOING THIS? tHIS DOCTOR GUY WAS JUST GOING AROUND THINKING " I NEED MORE BLOOD SAMPLES!"
― mike hanle y, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
mike when a bogus doctor got found out and jailed in the uk a few years back they also discovered that the ONLY
MEDICINE he'd given ANYONE in the all time he'd been putting on a white coat and seeing patients was little bits of
tarmac!! (Does that have a difft name in the US: anyway, the stuff they make road surfaces out of...)
― mark s, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Maybe he was actually a vampire, natch?
― mike hanle y, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Nice bunch of folks in yer neck of the woods, Hanle y.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
The man pretneded to have something that he needed to do.
Maybe he sold the blood to blood buyers.
― Nixon's Dad, Wednesday, 27 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Haha, I feel for this guy.....when I'm bored I love doing
random "official"-seeming things.....I'll walk up to a pay phone and
loudly start going on to a dead line about a huge drywall or
construction project and even pronounce "roof" like "ruff!".....like
a dog bark, the way real contractor guys do it......"no, no,
no.....level with me here, DOUG.....MAURICE says we're going to need
more manpower and I really really need this contract"......I like to
look stressed out and I always pinch my nose and massage my brow and
curse out loud......when some people in the service industry are
serving me and I start to fidget for some reason, and they ask me if
I'm in a hurry, I go, "no....well kind of....I have to PICK UP MY
DAUGHTER FROM CLARINET PRACTICE"......hahahaha.....I also love being
in airport or mall foyers in no rush at all, turbo-walking with my
agenda open, looking like i'm scribbing stuff but really just drawing
a stick figure woman with huge breasts......basically, anything that
involves flexing my jaw and brooding......feels like a porno.
― Ramosi, Saturday, 30 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)