Post by albion on Jul 24, 2017 17:29:57 GMT
nursing would be a great job if it wasnt for all these sick people just laying around.
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2017/07/elizabeth_wettlaufer_canada_s_killer_nurse_and_the_archetype_of_the_health.html
Finally, in 2006, Yorker and Kenneth Kizer published a landmark review of CASKs. They found that 90 health care serial killers had been prosecuted since 1970, of whom 54 had been convicted. These murderers were associated with 2,113 suspicious patient deaths. That death toll suggests health care serial killers take at least 60 lives per year, though the actual count is likely to be much higher given the obstacles to detection and punishment. (By comparison, experts claim serial killers of all types commit at most 150 murders per year in the U.S.)
Women made up about half of all the murderers in Yorker and Kizer’s data set—a much higher proportion than you’d find among “standard” serial killers. Nurses comprised 86 percent and doctors 12 percent of CASKs, which is about what one would expect given these professions’ relative numbers in the workforce. The most common mode of killing was injection, mostly with opiates or insulin. (Suffocation came in second.) And while Yorker and Kizer noted a diverse set of motives, they did observe that very few health care killers have criminal records. The most predictive factor, they said, was a history of falsifying their credentials.
www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2017/07/elizabeth_wettlaufer_canada_s_killer_nurse_and_the_archetype_of_the_health.html
Finally, in 2006, Yorker and Kenneth Kizer published a landmark review of CASKs. They found that 90 health care serial killers had been prosecuted since 1970, of whom 54 had been convicted. These murderers were associated with 2,113 suspicious patient deaths. That death toll suggests health care serial killers take at least 60 lives per year, though the actual count is likely to be much higher given the obstacles to detection and punishment. (By comparison, experts claim serial killers of all types commit at most 150 murders per year in the U.S.)
Women made up about half of all the murderers in Yorker and Kizer’s data set—a much higher proportion than you’d find among “standard” serial killers. Nurses comprised 86 percent and doctors 12 percent of CASKs, which is about what one would expect given these professions’ relative numbers in the workforce. The most common mode of killing was injection, mostly with opiates or insulin. (Suffocation came in second.) And while Yorker and Kizer noted a diverse set of motives, they did observe that very few health care killers have criminal records. The most predictive factor, they said, was a history of falsifying their credentials.
