Nurses Who Kill

The first 3 episodes involve cases that you can find better video documentaries of on YouTube.

Lots of other gripes: 1. The consulting MD for all the episodes has an unnerving habit of smiling while she's discussing horror stories. I can't even watch her.

2. What a tedious, repetitive mess overall. Could have been condensed to 20 mins. In fact, just skip forward till the last 20 mins and save your time.

3. For a series on "Nurses Who Kill", why aren't any nurses consulted? As another reviewer pointed out, we could have provided a much better and more informative commentary on the actions of our fellow nurses.

What do Colin Norris, Daniela Poggiali, and Ben Geen have in common? They are almost certainly innocent, according to many scholars and experts who have studied these cases closely. Miscarriages of justice do happen. They happen rather often (a) in the UK, (b) in serial killer nurse cases. These cases are fortunately very rare, but also very challenging. Courts must first decide whether or not there actually were any murders at all, and only if so, who was the perpetrator. Typically some surprising incident combined with pre-existing gossip about a nurse who stands our in the crowd, in a hospital which actually is failing due to bad management, understaffing etc, triggers a witch hunt and a witch trial. Forensic research is not done by police investigators buy by hospital specialists and managers, who give the information to police and to the courts, and who are needed to interpret that information. It's a recipe for disaster. Daniela Poggiali (Italy) has been acquitted after a retrial. The toxicological and statistical evidence against her was pure garbage.

They talk about how nurses should and shouldn't be but they sound like none of them has ever met a nurse. Most of the "specialists" they speak to their specialties have nothing to do with the subjects they're speaking about.

I find this documentary interesting although I wonder why the director hasn't used a nurse as a professional adviser.For the events viewed having a nurses perspective with their standards and exactly what they do would have been more grounded than having a doctor (although well spoken and informative) give a nurses view...physicians do not do our job they are not the expert in our processes. I cannot speak for other countries but in Canada nurses are autonomous from physicians we have our own standards and an excellent knowledge of science that we apply.We work closely with physicians but also lab pharmacy..physio and other professionals...nurses coordinate this and together with all the team support the physician in their decisions. Physicians rely heavily on nursing knowledge and assessment...caring is something ALL professions do. To validate nurses who kill..have a nurse's perspective not a physicians.

While very interesting and informative, the series suffers from not enough footage. The same scenes - even dramatic reconstructions - are being repeated five and more times throughout the episode, with some scenes taken from previous episodes. As a result - each episode feels like dragging on and if we cut out all repetitions, it would shrink to 15 minutes.