Death Shift, The : The True Story of Nurse Genene and the Texas Baby Murders

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Summary: hospital politics
Review: I found the story fascinating. The nurse involved was not a mercy killer, or a sadist. She just liked the excitement of "codes" that revived dying children, so started giving kids injections to make the codes happen. This is a variation of "Munchausen by proxy" syndrome, that sometimes is the cause of children's hospitalizations, where usually the mom causes her child to be sick so that she can nurse her child and get attention. What I found even more fascinating was how hospital politics worked to deny they had a problem: as far as punishing the whistleblowing nurse and doctor in charge of the nursery. A sad but true story of how malpractice (and even murder) can be and sometimes is covered up in our modern hospitals.

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Summary: A DULL READ, SKIP IT
Review: Just what the world needs, another true-crime evil nurse book. Ploddingly written, and just uninterestingly rendered. Author should be writing VCR manuals. Skip this boring thing.

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Summary: Scapegoats
Review: Many people criticized Jone's former employer a university teaching hospital for not blowing the whistle on her as soon as they became aware of suspicious deaths in the pediatric intensive care unit but turning in a nurse is tricky business. If Jones could convince a jury that she was the victim of a smear campaign, she could have ended up the richest woman in Texas.
Before the deaths in Kerrville, the evidence against Jones was very circumstantial. Even after Kerrville, the prosecution didn't have it easy although they clearly met the threshold for a criminal case.