Joseph Michael Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Quincy, Illinois. He was valedictorian of his 1972 Quincy Catholic Boys High School class. Swango served in the Marine Corps, graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, in 1976. He displayed troubling behavior during his time at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He preferred to work as an ambulance attendant rather than concentrate on his studies.
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Joseph Michael Swango was born in Tacoma, Washington and raised in Quincy, Illinois. He was valedictorian of his 1972 Quincy Catholic Boys High School class. Swango served in the Marine Corps, graduating from recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, in 1976. He displayed troubling behavior during his time at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He preferred to work as an ambulance attendant rather than concentrate on his studies. In 1985, he was convicted of aggravated battery for battery for poisoning co-workers. In 2000 he was sentenced to three consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole, and is serving that sentence at the ADX Florence supermax prison near Florence, Colorado. He is estimated to have been involved in as many as 60 fatal poisonings of patients and colleagues, though he only admitted to causing four deaths. He has also been known to perform pushups as a form of self-punishment when criticized by instructors. He also used the aliases David J. Adams, Michael Kirk, Jack Kirk, and Michael Swan, as well as the press nickname Dr. Death. He died of arsenic and other poisons in October of that year, and was arrested by the Quincy Police Department after arsenic was found in his possession. He had previously served as an emergency medical technician with the Adams County Ambance Corps in Springfield, Illinois, even though he had been fired from an ambulance service in Springfield for a heart patient drive to the hospital.
In July 1984, Swango returned to Adams County and began working as a paramedic. In October 1984, many of the paramedics on staff began noticing that whenever Swango prepared the food or coffee, several of them usually became violently ill, with no apparent apparent cause. He later left the ambulance service and went to work for a hospital in Springfield. In November 1984, he began working for the hospital again, this time in a neurosurgery unit. In May 1985, Swangos was arrested after arsenic and arsenic were found in the possession of several of his patients. He then left the hospital and went on to work at Ohio State University Medical Center in 1983, to be followed by a residency in neurosur surgery. In 1984, his work had been so slovenly that OSU pulled its residency offer after his internship ended in June. Although no one thought much of it at the time, many of Swango’s assigned patients ended up \”coding,\” or suffering life-threatening emergencies, with at least five of them dying. Swango later admitted to faking checkups during his OBGYN rotation, but this was the first time he’d been caught red-handed. A scathing review by James Meeks concluded that the hospital should have called Swango off the hospital’s recriminations at OSU. In April 1985, after Swango had been arrested, OSU officials feared that Swango would sue if he were fired without cause, and resolved to get him away from the hospital as soon as possible.
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