One of the stories making the news here in Italy is the arrest of Daniela Poggiali, 42, a nurse who is accused of killing at least 38 of her patients because she found them or their relatives to be annoying. She was initially charged in the death of an elderly patient and now police believe that she is a serial killer.
The case of Rosa Calderoni draw attention of the authorities because she been admitted for a routine illness and when she died there were high levels of potassium in her bloodstream. At least 10 other deaths are now being listed as “very suspicious”.
Prosecutor Rossella Materia called her a sadist who “who draws pleasure in provoking the death of the patients in her care.” One picture on her phone reportedly shows her giving a thumbs up next to when of her patients who had died seconds before. The public statements are an interesting dimension since Italy prosecutes people for criminal libel, as in the abusive case against the parents of Amanda Knox that we discussed earlier. While comments against the police can bring a charge, it clearly does not apply when prosecutors make such comments against individuals.
Even a colleague described her as a “cold person who was always eager to work.” This included the allegation from a co-worker that Poggiali would give patients strong laxatives at the end of her shift to make work more difficult for the nurses taking over.
Poggiali told police that she is innocent and the victim of a conspiracy by her enemies.
The case could prove very difficult given the length of time that has passed.
Source: MSN
And Olly, corporate CEOs leave their corporations via a golden parachute despite nearly destroying the company. That is the huge difference between government ( military) and private industry. How’s that for responsibility and leadership?
You mean those not worth a damn?
It’s medicine time in the Ebola gulag ward. Nurse Ratched is in charge of things. Meet the new CDC boss. Nice music in the back round and strict proper protocol!
Hmmmmmm. Tell that to the commanders that ignore military rape.
The military operates with the understanding they are privileged to have the career and the responsibility to demonstrate leadership or that career is gone; ANYONE can have their career terminated tomorrow if they don’t take action today. Nothing will shorten a military career quicker than policies and procedures that put at risk the health and safety of subordinates. No military commander worth a damn risks lives or careers over budgets.
Uh oh. Now the ball busting prison guard teacher is calling for gravitas. Time to straighten up, kids!
docmadison,
Yep.
The dorktape episode.
Here is a RE RE purtecting himself agin’ librul relatives and hospices:
LOL! Turley Grammar School has convened.
They are not called publicans any more like they were in their imagination (when JC started their ‘ligion).
They are now REpublicans because they keep REpeating the same things over and over again thinking “it will work this time.”
RE: screwballs.
You know what a cultist ballbuster is doncha?
That is when knickers are locked and loaded and they only have to use one hand so they can use the other one to pick their nose at the same time.
Kraptilist efficiency is sexy they say.
Wooho … clean the screen you mean machine.
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Texas is very unfriendly to medical malpractice.
hahahahahahahahahha
Supremes have made class action suits very difficult.
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Uh oh. Shouldn’t make fun. So sorry. Now their hair is on fire.
Annie
The hospital should’ve improved it’s protocols on their own volition as every hospital in the nation should be doing. The CDC is behind the times, but every hospital needs to take responsibility too. The nurses are no to blame, but must be strong and refuse to care for Ebola patients without appropriate gear. Unions are showing themselves to be advocates for nurses and patients alike. Time to stop bashing those evil unions now?
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Exactly.
The clinical dorks here seem to think a lawsuit against the CDC is merited.
LOL.
The lawsuits will be against the hospitals if they are to amount to a hill of beans.
“Duh law” won’t work, gotta consider “the law.”
The cornservatives need to sue the hospitals that are “taking care” of their brains … assuming that have any of that between the air between their non-working ears.
C’mon you cs cornswervatives, sue the CDC or better yet the WH.
Dork trolls … the most amusing kind.
Bring back the duct tape and plastic sheeting!
Next they’ll be advising us to scream Fire in a crowded theatre.
hahahahahahahah.
The Libertarian/prison guard shoutsout for a prison lockdown.
hahahahahaha.
Reason and Logic calls for martial law.
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How the hell would those guys do in London during the Blitz?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-dallas-20141014-story.html#page=1 “Nurses at a Texas hospital where a Liberian man died of Ebola described a confused and chaotic response to his arrival in the emergency room, alleging in a statement Tuesday that he languished for hours in a room with other patients and that hospital authorities resisted isolating him.
In addition, they said, the nurses tending him had flimsy protective gear and no proper training from hospital administrators in handling such a patient.
The allegations, made under unusual circumstances, provided the first detailed portrait of Thomas Eric Duncan’s second trip to the emergency room, where he arrived by ambulance days after doctors had sent him home with a fever, a headache, abdominal pain and a prescription for antibiotics.” That hospital serves the elite of Dallas. I include in that George Bush and the Perot family.
If the first Ebola patient came from Israel Obama would have shut down travel that same day!
The CDC bungling this disease makes a good case for limited government. Michelle Malkin points out that the CDC has undertaken tasks which are not actually diseases…
http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/10/15/the-centers-for-everything-but-disease-control-n1905224/page/full
CDC also spends 12.5 billion to fight privatization of liquor stores:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/new-prohibitionists_738061.html
Then there is also this curious bit:
“What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.”
from http://thefederalist.com/2014/10/14/president-obama-already-has-an-ebola-czar-where-is-she/#.VD00GzVpH9w.facebook
If they had kept to their original tasks, we might actually be prepared. Pick a federal agency, repeat that statement.
@ Nick
We were planning to do some visiting to family in the Bay Area and Oregon. I think we will just hold off until after January. We can Skype instead.
Remember how PC killed millions of AIDS patients. Looks like the same thing happening here.
Olly, Same in a prison. Lockdown.