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.
I Wonder how someone with such an apparent lack of empathy finds its way into a nursing profession
Come work in a hospital in the deep US south - we’ve got tons of nurses incapable of empathy. As for how, they’re programmed that way by Fox and religion.
Little surprised to see the happening in Germany. Don’t know the culture there at all… is there a German equivalent to Fox that also turns its viewers into evil morons?
German here. Pretty sure that being an evil moron is a universal human quality not linked to state citizenship.
Fair enough - seems to be celebrated here in the US, but I’ve got pretty much no perspective on it anywhere else.
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.
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.
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
During direct patient care you’d never know - they put that nurse mask on and they competent enough from a clinical standpoint.
It’s places like the breakroom when the evil starts to seep out… there could be some absolutely heartwrenching footage of ICE peeling some mom away from her kids or something, and they’ll drop a slur and something like “wELL wHaT dID sHe tHiNk wAs gOnNa hApPen cOmMiNg hErE iLlEgAlLy??”
Southerners are fantastic actors, but when they think the right people aren’t looking, they turn absolutely vile.
…it’s made me really jaded.