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Former Pennsylvania nurse linked to 17 nursing home deaths

November 3, 2023 by Paul

A former Pennsylvania nurse accused of killing two patients with insulin doses faces additional murder charges and has confessed to trying to kill 19 more people in multiple locations, authorities said Thursday. In May, Heather Pressdee, 41, admitted to authorities that she had intended to kill three patients under her care with doses of insulin, …

Surgery patients suffer ‘tortuous pain’ after nurse steals pain medication: lawsuit

October 12, 2023 by Paul

Patients at a Yale University fertility clinic experienced excruciating pain after undergoing invasive fertility procedures after a nurse stole hundreds of vials of fentanyl and replaced the patient’s medications with saline solution , according to a lawsuit. Dozens, if not hundreds, of patients underwent fertility surgeries with little or no pain medication, according to a …