The palliative care nurse was convicted of the murder of 10 patients, and the attempted murder of 27 others.

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.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    the judiciary system not understanding statistics (5 percent of all nurses have a statistically-significant high death rate).

    And for those in this thread who also don’t understand statistics, that’s because the threshold for statistical significance is usually 5% by definition and has nothing to do with nursing at all.