The former German nurse would push his patients to the edge of death’s door, injecting them with drugs to induce cardiac arrest, then resuscitate them and relish in the praise. Authorities said Hoegel administered medications to patients to create arrhythmias, drive their blood pressure down to gravely low levels and, ultimately, induce cardiac arrest. Within days, his patient was dead, but the hospital did not alert authorities until Hoegel had killed another person, according to the Guardian. “It was the clinical daily routine which failed to challenge me,” he had told the court, according to Deutsche Welle . “Neither we nor Mr. Hoegel deny that he is the perpetrator in many cases,” Ulrike Baumann, one of his defence attorneys, told the court, according to AP.

Source: National Post June 06, 2019 12:45 UTC