Mocobizscene- According to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr., Dr. Jeffrey Harris, 59, has been sentenced to five to fifteen years in state prison. The maximum punishment for his manslaughter conviction stemming from the mishandling of his wife Tammy Harris’s physical condition is this term. A jury of the New York State Supreme Court found Dr. Harris guilty of second-degree manslaughter on October 26, 2023. He was accused of giving his wife dangerous doses of selenium and other vitamins, as well as of preventing her lupus therapy from being administered.
Physician Dr. Harris was accused of ignoring his personal and professional obligations by treating his wife without authorization and disobeying medical advice. As a result, she passed away. He allegedly impeded Tammy’s lupus therapy, and in its place, needless drugs and supplements that made her condition worse were given. He gave her a number of incorrect diagnoses before concluding that she had mercury poisoning and giving her deadly amounts of selenium.
Tammy first met Dr. Harris in 2003 when he was her physician. They lived in Washington State after getting married in 2007. In 2016, Tammy started having health problems. Her primary care physician made the diagnosis of an auto-immune condition, which she assumed to be lupus. Later, other medical professionals validated this diagnosis. In spite of this, Dr. Harris assumed control of her care and rejected the diagnosis.
While Tammy was under Dr. Harris’s care, her health declined. She started to lose weight, developed acute jaundice, and ultimately was bedridden. In August 2017, while she was in the hospital, Dr. Harris disapproved of her doctors’ recommendations, gave her the go-ahead to refuse their prescription drugs, and kept giving her his selected vitamins without her doctor’s consent. Over the following four months, this pattern persisted. While Tammy was in the hospital, her condition would momentarily get better, but, when Dr. Harris discharged her against medical recommendation, her condition would deteriorate.
Despite several negative tests, Dr. Harris misdiagnosed Tammy with mercury poisoning in the late summer of 2017. She died as a result of the high selenium dosage he gave her. Tammy, who weighed less than 80 pounds, was taken by Dr. Harris to an alternative medical facility in New York City in January 2018. The center’s tests found that she had very high amounts of selenium in her blood but no mercury toxicity. Tammy’s heart failed, and she was brought to Lennox Hill Hospital on February 22, 2018. At the age of fifty-five, she passed suddenly six days later.
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