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The Nurse Who Manufactured Crises: How Hospitals Missed 300 Deaths
The Nurse Who Manufactured Crises: How Hospitals Missed 300 Deaths
More than half of all resuscitations and deaths in one cardiac ICU occurred on a single nurse's shifts - 58% on Ward Two‑Eleven - and when he briefly stayed away, only two patients died in three weeks. How did administrators compile charts showing that spike, watch the decline during his absence, then quietly move him and later write a glowing reference instead of alerting police?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events inside the Klinikum Oldenburg cardiac surgery intensive care unit from 1999 through the…
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