When a Murderer Wants to Practice Medicine
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It is hard to think of a case in which a murderer should become a medical doctor. Murder and medical practice are simply incompatible.
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Britain&#39;s doctors are still imbued with a club culture that puts their interests before the patient, a damning report into the activities of the serial killer Harold Shipman declared yesterday.
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A biological defect in the way blood flows in the brain rather than a psychological defect could be one reason why some people become criminal psychopaths, a new study shows.
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A gruesome murder and an influential defendant make for a riveting courtroom drama
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What you learn about people â and yourself â when you need them to donate an organ.
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It's a lesson children learn even before their ABCs &#151; say you're sorry when you hurt someone. But it's now being taught in the grown-up world of medicine as a surprisingly powerful way to soothe patients and head off malpractice lawsuits.
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Dr. Brian Stidham was still in his surgical scrubs when a pair of janitors found him stabbed to death in the parking lot outside his practice, his Lexus gone. Was it robbery? A carjacking? Nothing that ordinary, investigators say. Instead, they say, it was a hit set up by another doctor with whom Stidham was once in practice.
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One murder case has attracted special attention amid a debate over the safety of antidepressant use in children and teenagers.
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A prestigious medical school was tipped off that one of its students had been a Nazi sympathizer, released on parole after being convicted in 2000 of a murder.
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Federal prosecutors sought two life sentences Tuesday for a militant abortion opponent already serving 25 years to life for murdering a doctor who performed abortions.
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For years, Dr. Thomas Michael Barrett wrote prescriptions for large amounts of pain medication, sometimes in potentially lethal doses.
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It's called 'murderabilia'âthe buying and selling of items connected to grisly crime scenes. And it's a brisk business online. Inside the campaign to police the murder market.
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A hospital in the Netherlands &#151; the first nation to permit euthanasia &#151; recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures, which include administering a lethal dose of sedatives.
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A surgeon appears in court charged with the manslaughter of a patient who had attempted suicide.
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A medical student has admitted killing a trainee rabbi and chopping up his body, but he has denied the charge of murder.
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The case of a painter on death row walks a thin line between 'murderabilia' and prisoners' rights.
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.