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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.

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[–] Helix8o8@lemy.lol 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Like dude... JUST GET A DIFFERENT JOB. If that was actually why he started doing it. Of course, big if lol. Bro probably was just getting a power trip doing it. Sick freak

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This guy seems to be a serial killer with a long history. Don't know why they're highlighting that he did it all to "reduce work load".

More broadly, there's a hell of a lot of compassion fatigue in caring professions. Time is tight. There's understaffing everywhere. If an elderly person is complaining of pain or discomfort, the solution might be to spend some time with them and reposition them or get to the cause of the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if staff are rushed and take the quick and easy way out to just give medication instead.....which might accidentally have unintended side effects in an elderly person. But this case was nothing of the sort. This guy is just going around killing people.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

More broadly, there's a hell of a lot of compassion fatigue in caring professions.

It could be a warped sense of excess compassion, too. Some of these caregiver serial killers are "angel of death" types who think they're doing euthenasia.

(Not saying that's the case here, since OP's blurb gives a different motive and I can't be bothered to read further, but more broadly it seems to be a well-known thing.)

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's totally infuriating how that goes. Every few years some serial killer is exposed working in hospitals or care homes. Sobody really cares. This news about a serial killer killing 10 is not even headline news. Others have killed over 80 people and nobody really cares, nobody is trying to improve the situation so that people like them can't kill. But if some migrant harms someone with a knife, everybody totally freaks out.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

The media doesn't care. People do, but the media hasn't been for the benefit of the people for quite a while now.

[–] tornavish@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago

That’s one way to get your break

Where I live (Philly suburb) there was an incident where a guy driving a 12,000 gallon gasoline truck pumped out 4000 gallons at his first gas station stop and then decided he just wanted to go home rather than making the rest of his deliveries. So he ran the hose to the back of the station and dumped the other 8000 gallons onto the ground. This happened to be right above a creek and about 200 feet from an elementary school.

It just doesn't make any sense how anybody could be this stupid. He got 20 years in prison for it or something like that. He certainly deserved it, but meanwhile executives who manage to create far worse disasters never see a day in jail.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wasn’t this an episode of Dexter?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the Dexter episode the nurse just hated and killed people with unhealthy lifestyles and causing extra workload for medical staff

Yeah actually it sounds just the same, life imitates art

[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

There's also The Good Nurse and Jessie Buckley's character from Fargo season 4

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like their plan kinda worked.

[–] Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's Germany, not Louisiana. The logic checks out. They won't have to work ever again.

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They won’t have to work ever again.

It's still possible. Even with the particular severity of guilt, life sentences are usually commuted to probation after 16 to 20 years, which would still give him 7 to 3 years until retirement age.

Honestly if I was 3-7 years from retirement and I had a choice between a somewhat comfortable prison or going to some shit job because no one will hire me as a felon...

Really depends what their priorities are at that point. Who is left in their life who still cares about them, knowing they were murdering people left and right.

I'm guessing they'll get out after 16 years and find some way to not work, if they get out.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When I'm in palliative care, go ahead and murder me tbh.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I think you mean hospice care. Otherwise, if you get in a bad car accident tomorrow you are requesting your nurse to kill you even if you are expected to recover.

I have also worked adjacent to hospice care and you would be surprised that people do recover from hospice care as well.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 1 points 19 hours ago

If it's the same as other country, patient dying in your work is the busiest part of the day. The paperwork, phone calls and wrapping the body. Most nurses pray for patients to die after they clock out due to paperwork alone.

That's so unbelievably fucked up.

May he rot in a cell for the rest of his days.