German nurse gets life in jail after killing 10 to reduce work

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33 comments

  1. There’s not understanding what your job is about, and there’s that…

  2. > 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.

    > The offences were committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany.

    At least they got him quick this time. The last nurse/serialkiller was able to murder more people because nobody caught on.

  5. Jobs was right – Always hire the lazy person to do the work they’ll find the most efficient way

  7. Well, now his work HAS been reduced to nothing. Task succeeded failurely?

  8. He injected them with a large dose of painkillers. At least it was probably painless?

  9. At what point does the amount of painkillers given in palliative care amount to killing, and what amount is regular care.

    Maybe I start to understand why paracetamol is the one god that rules all healthcare here, you can’t be convicted for it.

  10. So many people making jokes. Christ. These people were killed only a couple a years ago. Is it less aweful because the victims were old or sick?

  12. >The offences were committed between December 2023 and May 2024 in a hospital in Wuerselen, in western Germany.

    You mean to tell me this was right around the corner of where I live and somehow this is the place I hear about it first? Damn…

  13. The alignment problem exists in humans too it seems.

  14. I’m not surprised. I was recovering from general anesthesia from a procedure I had recently and the nurse who was attending me in the recovery room apparently got impatient with how long it was taking me to get up and leave. She came into the room and told me she only had two patients (I was one of them) that shift and I had to get going, I’d been there long enough, it shouldn’t be taking me this long to recover from general anesthesia. I was like “Fuck you, I couldn’t care less about cutting your workload in half this evening.”

    When I did get up to get dressed and leave, I found blood soaking through the bandages and my surgeon had to come back to examine the incision and replace the bandages.

  15. I wonder how he was able to frequently inject large doses of morphine. Midazolam is not heavily controlled in German hospitals. But morphine is. Every ampoule of morphine needs to be sign out in a specific form and it needs to be specified for which patient it was used. At the minimum it should have been very obvious that he was using much more morphine than the average nurse.

  16. That’s seriously messed up. Hard to believe someone could do that just to make their job easier.

  18. Prosecutors alleged that the man, […], injected his mostly elderly patients with painkillers or sedatives in an effort to ease his workload […].

    This was at a palliative care facility (dying patients in a lot of pain).

    At some point during the chain of investigation, trial, BBC article to reddit post, this turned into a serial killer who will murder you in your sleep.
    All the links in this chain share some fault for this sensationalism. 

    Do your part against sensationalism and downvote the post. 

  21. Real careful phrasing on the last sentence in that article. It coaxed an involuntary laugh from me.

  25. Well, technically the plan worked, because he does not have to work for the rest of his life.

  27. Probably one of those Germans who complains forever and calls their foreign colleagues lazy

  28. In Deutschland gab es das Unwort des Jahres:
    **Sozialverträgliches Frühableben** das Unwort des Jahres 1998.

    Or in english, “bad” word of the year 1998 – **socially acceptable early death**

    Without migration this would be reality right now.

  29. Dahmer and Ed Gein were amateurs.
    Today’s serial killers wear scrubs, name tags, and kill not out of lust — but from overtime.

  32. Not to be cynical, but i wouldn’t be suprised if there are other similar cases of health care professionals dealing with someone on the brink of death who did something similar. Maybe not at the same amount, but here or there over the course of their career. There are too many shitty people out there for me not to be suspicious.

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