Niels Högel: German ex-nurse convicted of killing 85 patients
A former nurse has been convicted of murdering 85 patients at two hospitals in northern Germany and handed a life sentence.
Prosecutors said he attacked patients in order to impress colleagues by subsequently trying to revive them.
Högel, who is already serving life for two murders, administered lethal doses of heart medication to people in his care between 1999 and 2005.
A former colleague told the German newspaper Bild that Högel was nicknamed "Resuscitation Rambo" because of the way he "pushed everyone else aside" when patients needed to be resuscitated.
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what psychology is at work here? why would someone put another persons life in danger to try to save them to impress colleagues
a crazy need for people to look up to him? to be a hero?