Following the conviction of the baby killer nurse, Lucy
Letby, the nursing profession we're told have been "rocked to the core" by the murders and now fear this may have
an impact on public trust. Letby, was convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and the attempted murder of six other babies. From what we know, nurses who kill their patients,
is something that is rare, but it certainly occurs.
In June 2019, the nurse Niels Hogel, was convicted of
murdering 85 patients at two German hospitals. Hogel attacked patients in order
to impress colleagues by subsequently trying to revive them. He was given the nickname
'Resuscitation Rambo' by his
colleagues.
Elizabeth Wettlaufer, a nurse, in Canada, killed eight
elderly patients. Her first victim was James Silcox, an 84-year old patient
with dementia. She used insulin to kill him. She told the police "That evening I got the urge to overdose
James."
Charles Cullen is known to have killed 29 patients in America
where he was a nurse, and possibly hundreds, over a 16-year period using
insulin, digoxin, and epinephrine.
The nurse Beverly Allitt, killed or attempted to kill or seriously
harm, 13 children in her care, within an 8-week period in Lincolnshire.
Collin Norris, was found guilty of murdering four elderly
patients and attempting to murder a fifth, at two hospitals in Leeds in 2008,
where he was employed as a nurse. All his victims were women. He killed them
with insulin.
It's believed that 450 people had their lives cut short at
Gosport War Memorial Hospital in Portsmouth by drugs, and another 200
"probably" given similar opioids, between 1989 and 2000. The opioids
were given to patients without "medical justification." No charges
were ever brought against medical staff. The police did investigate the deaths
of 92 patients of Dr Jane Barton at Gosport War Memorial Hospital in the late
1990s. No charges were brought against her, but an inquest held in 2009 and
2013, found that medication prescribed by Barton, had contributed to the deaths
of six patients.
A friend once told me that his elderly father who was in his
eighties, had been admitted to hospital. He said that while his father was in
hospital, he'd been told by medical staff, that his father was coming to the
end of his life. He was then asked if he would agree to putting his father on
"palliative care." He
wouldn't give his consent and told staff to do everything possible to keep his
father alive. I asked him what the outcome was. He told me that he'd taken his
father out of the hospital and that he'd lived another three years.
That's not bad going for a man who is coming to the end of
his life and I'm sure, this is not an isolated case in British hospital's.
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