Hungary’s ‘Black Angel’ and Her ‘Dragons’

Nurse Timea Faludi was taken into custody in Hungary in 2001, after confessing to administering lethal doses of drugs to seriously ill elderly patients between May 2000 and February 2001. On 2 December 2002, the Court of First Instance found the nurse guilty on several counts of attempted homicide a...

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Main Author: Rozsos, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2003
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 428-432
Further subjects:B ethics education
B low status
B Chamber of Health Workers
B lack of nurses
B ‘black angels’
B new colleague
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Summary:Nurse Timea Faludi was taken into custody in Hungary in 2001, after confessing to administering lethal doses of drugs to seriously ill elderly patients between May 2000 and February 2001. On 2 December 2002, the Court of First Instance found the nurse guilty on several counts of attempted homicide and of wilfully endangering four persons’ lives in her professional capacity. This article discusses unethical and illegal acts in Hungary.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1191/0969733003ne623oa