Battery Charge Dropped Against Doctor Accused of Murder

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One of two charges has been dropped in the case against Topeka Dr. John Toth.

Dr. Toth is charged with the death of his patient Beverly Wunder, 47, after giving her and another woman treatments for Lyme disease, which they never had.

Toth is charged with the second-degree murder of Wunder.

A charge of Aggravated Battery for bodily harm to the other woman was dropped Friday.

The Board of Healing Arts suspended Toth's license in 2005.

It all started when the two women ended up in the hospital. Both were patients of Dr. John Toth, both receiving the same treatment for Lyme Disease.

He is accused of treating them with injections of bismacine, which contains a chemical that can be poisonous.

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Posted by: Bob Location: McLouth on Jul 15, 2007 at 05:28 AM
Thanks for your posting about Dr. Toth. He is our physician and my wife was one of his Lyme patients scheduled to receive the bismuth treatment once it was fully available. How can you report that his two patients did not have Lyme Disease? Please consider retracting that statement. Also I attended the procedures by the Board of Healing Arts and they did not, as you reported, suspend Dr. Toth's license; by mutual consent they agreed to make his license "inactive"--a much lesser offense. The Board has in its files a letter from the woman who was the subject of the Aggrevated Battery charge indicating that, after the Bismuth treatment, she feels free of the symptoms of Lyme Disease for the first time in 15 years and she praises the work of Dr. Toth. Finally, no harm would have come to either of the two women if the nurse doing the work had followed the established procedures. Thanks for this opportunity to supplement your posting and set the record straight. If the District Attorney would now drop the second charge to a misdemeanor for negligence justice would have been served. To charge Dr. Toth with "wanton disregard for human life" is to totally disregard any semblance of truth. To charge him with "murder" is to trivialize the serious problem we have with real murderers. Surely the District Attorney's office can make better use of its time. May everyone be well. Bob N.