A palliative care nurse in Germany has been sentenced to life in prison after he was convicted of the murder of 10 patients and the attempted murder of 27 others.
Prosecutors alleged that the man, who has not been publicly named, injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort to ease his workload during shifts overnight.
The offences were committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany.
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SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
Wonder if this will cause any scrutiny of the oppressive work culture of the medical industry?
XD
Nah, we will pretend like this was a freak occurrence not caused by anything external.
glimse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
I feel guilty enough sometimes having to give my dog allergy medicine that makes him drowsy
helix@feddit.org · 3 pts · 305d
See that's why you'll never make it as a German nurse
kurodriel@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 306d
I Wonder how someone with such an apparent lack of empathy finds its way into a nursing profession
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
helix@feddit.org · 2 pts · 306d
German here. Pretty sure that being an evil moron is a universal human quality not linked to state citizenship.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
helix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 305d
How is being evil "celebrated"? What I figured out is that people actually don't recognise they're evil because they're stupid and prejudiced. They don't introspect. That's not a celebration, but willful ignorance, in my opinion.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
helix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 306d
Many nursing schools and organisations in Germany are based on religious organisations, e.g. Caritas (catholicism), Diakonie (evangelical) and Johanniter (evangelical).
The catholics and evangelicals run many ambulance services, hospitals, nursing services and hospices. My old landlord family, two of them being nurses and very right-wing, was very religious and literally labeled us as the antichrist because we had a pride flag and had gay friends.
FisicoDelirante@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 306d
How does lack of empathy look in day to day there? I have seen lack of empathy multiple times but never against someone that's actually present in the room
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d