She said they could have lost their jobs, their careers and even their families. When I wrote that on this page, she emailed again indignantly telling me that if those nurses had reported it they could have been sued, which is why she was writing anonymously. How many patients have to be murdered in medicine before health care professionals finally to go to the police? Apparently about a hundred.
When nothing was, the nurses finally wrote an anonymous letter to the police. The anonymous nurse wrote again saying that when the nurses complained to their supervisors, they were told that something would be done about it. So on this page I asked where else other than medicine would people become aware that a colleague was murdering customers and do no more than alert a supervisor? If you, dear reader, knew a colleague at work was killing people, is that what you would do? Wouldn’t you call the police? In medicine they say they would, and they believe they would, but they don’t, as example after example testifies. She said that nurses did report it – to their supervisors. The nurse read that and emailed again saying she misspoke. So I added her statement here and commented that from a patient’s perspective that appeared to be yet another example of health care professionals valuing their own careers more than the lives of their patients. A Response to Which We Are UsedĪfter reading that six sentence note on this page, the anonymous nurse emailed me indignantly explaining that the nurses couldn’t report it for fear of losing their jobs. Since no one tracks the well-being of patients to see whether the care makes them better or worse as a group, no one noticed – except for some nurses who were making bets as to which patient would die the next time Majors was on duty.ĭid any of them report their concerns to the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana? Did any of them call the police? Or even leak anything to the police – an anonymous note perhaps? Or to the press? Not for the first hundred murders or so. When he was on duty, a death occurred every 23.1 hours. The six sentences that had been on this page about Majors said that when he was off duty, people died only every 551.6 hours. It was interesting to see yet another example of the perspective of health care professionals in matters concerning the safety of patients.
But then an anonymous nurse emailed me saying she had been on the scene when Majors was murdering patients. There is plenty available about him on the web for those who wish to know more. It was not intended to be in depth or definitive. This page had been here just for a synopsis of the case to remind readers of who he was when he was mentioned as an example on this site. And then I got an email from a nurse who had worked with him. There were only about six sentences on this page.
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