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The Nurse Who Loved Resuscitation: Inside Högel's Killing Stage
The Nurse Who Loved Resuscitation: Inside Högel's Killing Stage
The pleasure of resuscitation became an addiction that left patients dead: between 1999 and 2005 a single nurse’s shifts accounted for 58% of resuscitations and deaths on one cardiac ICU ward, yet no police report followed. How did recorded warnings, meetings, and a glowing reference letter still allow him to move to another hospital and continue?
In this episode, we walk through the timeline of events recorded in hospital meetings, personnel files, and the 2019 psychiatric evaluation to show how institutional choices intersected…
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