According to a 2010 American Medical Association (AMA) survey that took a look at all physicians, 61% had been sued by late career. While some get sued for something serious, others are sued for things that are not necessarily their faults. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you can consider people in such a condition as a murderous medical Professionals.
Medical professionals have the sole duty of nursing their patients back to health. This much is said in the Hippocratic Oath taken during the induction into the profession. Some have however used the profession as a means of satisfying their insane and outrageous bloody fantasies. They are the murderous ones.
What you may not know is that there’s a large record of murderers and serial killers disguised as medical professionals.
Murderous Medical Professionals
Dr. Harold Shipman
When an increasing number of patients turned up dead after being alone with Shipman, a number of his colleagues became suspicious but investigations yielded nothing. Nemesis caught up with him when he killed an old woman and forged a new will removing her children. The woman’s daughter suspected foul play and an investigation led to discovering medicinal heroin overdose in the exhumed body. A typewriter was found in the culprit’s house which he used for typing the will. This led to a spiral of events where he was charged for several other deaths.
Also referred to as Dr. Death, Harold having had at least 218 patients as victims of his crime. More unfortunate is the fact that there are indications that he might have even killed as much as 250 people. The youngest of his victims was Peter Lewis, 41while the oldest was Annie Cooper, aged 93, both of whom were suffering from Cancer.
In 2000, he was given 15 consecutive life sentences and became the only British doctor to be prosecuted for his patients’ death. He killed himself on 13 January 2004, which was just a day to his 58 birthday.
H.H Holmes
Also known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, this American Physician was born Herman Webster Mudgett but decided to change his name after some scandals, but that didn’t mean that he repented. One of the deadliest of murderous medical professionals, he operated by taking insurance policies on bodies stolen from a laboratory. He cashed the policies out by altering the bodies to look like accident victims. He was also known as a polygamist with three wives.
He built a large castle-like hotel with three storefronts after duping a widow of her late husband’s pharmacy. The hotel was simply nothing but a murder house where people go in and don’t come out. He created doors that when you open all you see is brick walls and then there are flight of stairs that led to nowhere.
He also forced his employees to take out bogus life insurances in which he was always their beneficiaries then he murdered them. Holmes had a liking for female victims and was recorded to not just torture and kill but to also dismember and sell skeletons and body parts. In 1987, he was sentenced to a gruesome death by hanging. He is said to be America’s first serial killer.
John Adams
Hold up! This isn’t John Adams, the President. This is Dr. John Adams, a general practitioner who may have been responsible for over a hundred and sixty of his patients’ death. He had a doting nature towards his older female patients so much so that a hundred and thirty-two of them changed their wills in his favor and died soon after. This happened between the year 1946 and 1956 yet, interestingly, he was never convicted for professional negligence or murder. This makes one wonder if he is among the murderous medical professionals right?
He got stripped of his license when he was found guilty of obstruction of police duty, prescription fraud, failure to keep a register for dangerous drugs and lying on cremation forms and nine other offenses. In 1961, he retrieved his license on his third attempt. He went on practicing medicine till his death due to natural circumstances. The English Legal System had to make a lot of adjustments due to this case.
Lainz Angels of Death
This time around, we are not just talking about a single individual. There were four Nurse’s aides in Lainz, Austria named Irene Leidolf, Waltraud Wagner, Maria Gruber and Stephanija Meyer who were dubbed the Lainz Angels of Death in the 1980s because they seemed to carry death with them.
They were each convicted of murder and got sentences of a minimum of fifteen years imprisonment after they were convicted of killing close to 50 patients who were mostly in their 70’s and 80’s. Nevertheless, there were sources that said the number of people killed by these murderous medical professionals may even be as high as 300. The worst part of the whole thing was that it all happened in a state-run hospital. If you are wondering how long it took those women to kill these many people, the answer is six years.
Their patient-victims died from water being forced into their lungs or overdose of morphine administered by them. They were all released in 2008 on good behavior.
Genene Jones
As a Vocational Nurse between the 1970s and 1980s in Texas, Genene Jones might have killed some sixty infants in her care. The poor babies died of heart attacks induced by succinylcholine, digoxin, and heparin. Also nicknamed angel of death when she was working as a pediatric licensed vocational nurse, she didn’t pick the old as many others do.
Even though she worked for slightly more than a year, 47 infants lost their lives in the ICU when she was there. Of these, 34 died under her care. What raised suspicion was the fact that infants were found to be more likely to die by as much as 10 times between 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Interestingly enough, that was her shift. This all happened when she was with Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. The hospital later discharged her alongside others in the name of seeking to upgrade. Thanks to her letter of recommendation it didn’t take too long for her to get another job at a pediatric clinic in Kerrville, Texas. Sure, she went along with death but this time around she didn’t walk away free.
She was convicted for the murder of 15-month old Chelsea McClellan and given a prison sentence of 99 years as well 60 years for drug overdose to a child who luckily survived. She was to serve both simultaneously but her release became imminent in 2018 in a bid to prevent prison overcrowding. Prosecutors went to work to file several other old murder charges so as to keep her locked up. Jones who is now 67 is awaiting trial in July 2018.
Jane Toppan
Referred to as Jolly Jane, many saw her as a very sweet individual, but there was a lot that she had endured in life including being rejected by her father and kept in an orphanage to being raised as a servant in the Toppan family. That gave birth to a monster.
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This Nurse killed a minimum of thirty-one of her patients before she was apprehended. In the 1880s in Massachusetts, Jane Toppan had a habit of crawling into her patients’ bed to lay with them as they died (most likely a sexual thrill). Her victims were not necessarily old and infirm patients whom she injected with lethal doses of atropine and morphine. She was locked up in an asylum for life and died in her 80s.
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These scary stories and more might make us want to lose faith in the Medical profession and just stick to self-care and prescription but then, there are more stories littering around where medical practitioners have proven to be angels of mercy and goodwill. At the end of the day, we can only hope that we never get subjected to serial killers cloaked in Medical regalia.
