Exam 6: Healthcare Killers

This offender was known as a very reclusive individual who seldom spoke to his neighbors.His co-workers knew him as a man with a quick temper who sometimes threw medical charts and slammed his fist on counters or walls when summoned by patients.Patients were known to refuse meds because of their aversion to him.

In the Yorker study it was found that the majority of healthcare providers who committed murders came from _____.

Offenders who kill their family or relatives are referred to as _____.

Killers who work in the health care industry seldom are usually lust killers.

Healthcare killers meet the general criteria for serial killing except for the stereotypic element of violence.

According to the text, it is believed the motive for Genene Jones' killing was:

One area that geographic profiling is not designed to address is _____.

Charles Cullen confessed to the murders of at least 40 patients in how many different hospitals over a period of 16 years?

Which of the following IS NOT true regarding euthanasia?

Yorker et al., identified some typical scenarios in serial murder of patients by healthcare providers.All are typical except:

At the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in Ontario, Canada, dozens of infants were believed to have been killed with overdoses of this drug between 1980 and 1981:

The trademarks of place-specific killers are murders that _____.

Dr.Omer L.Wagoner, a licensed psychologist who examined Terri Rachals, said she knew the difference between right and wrong.

Hospitals and nursing homes fall prey to healthcare killers, even after they have been terminated from a previous job for the following reasons:

After Donald Harvey was arrested, among his possessions was found:

This sophisticated drug used in some murders is difficult to detect once the body has been prepared for burial.

Donald Harvey was asked to resign as autopsy assistant after the following items were found in his hospital locker except:

Convicted of giving an 89-year-old patient a heart-stopping chemical, this offender was given 17 years for her conviction, but was eligible for parole after serving 24 months.

The Third Reich viewed defective children as insults to the Aryan race and were referred to as _____.

Succinylcholine, another relatively undetectable drug, is used as an _____ to relax muscles during surgery.213