Whether healthcare serial killers enter the field in order to kill – or fall into it – is difficult to say.
A “rare few” enter the profession to become “angels of death,” while many transform into killers on the job, Prof Ramsland said.
Prof Yardley said it was often a combination of the two.
“These are individuals who will have obtained a sense of power and enjoyment from harming people in the past and see opportunities to escalate this behaviour in a hospital when they become aware of the access and opportunities that this setting affords,” she said.
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