ATTENTION: Residents, medical students and Pre-med students
It's very important for you to know (in my opinion) that there is some extremely fringe advise being implied on this thread.
It is not legal in any state to perform euthanasia. It is not going to be perceived as legal, in any state in the United States to give 10-20 times the standard dose of a potentially fatal medicine, to people that are clinging to life. Even in states like California with the End of Life Option Act, and Oregon with the Death With Dignity Act, euthanasia is not legal. (Those involve patient ingested medications, which is not the same as physician or nurse-administered medications).
Just because a health care worker is numb to the circumstances around death and dying. Just because a patient is deemed to be "almost dead." Just because a family is in severe distress and "just wants it to end." Just because "it's going to happen anyways." Just because someone might not think it "seems as bad" as some other acts deemed more "cold blooded" in their opinion. Does not make euthanasia legal. Neither does any of that make creating the perception of possibly having performed euthanasia, or something close to it, as anything other than problematic.
Furthermore, there is no special law against euthanasia with a lighter sentence, or "slap on the wrist" because in someone's opinion, it doesn't "seem as bad" as other killings, to them. The laws the act breaks, are the same laws against all other illegal killings: Murder, manslaughter, homicide.
Ignore the catastrophically bad advice some are implying, on this thread. Regardless of the outcome of the trial of Dr. Husel (who is presumed innocent of any crime unless proven otherwise), realize that giving five, ten or twenty times the standard dose your peers are giving, of a potentially lethal drug, repeatedly over time, is always going to get you in severe trouble. It's always going to be viewed as abnormal by your peers, family members and law enforcement. It's always going to show devastatingly bad judgement. And it's always going to be stupid. Catastrophically stupid.
Even if Husel is found not guilty, all of the above will remain true.