Serial Killers and the Sciences

Thanks for pulling together an insightful review. For me it’s all about having professional curiosity and that’s something that seems to be absent from the current governance systems up to and including the board. Failure to recognise risk is the greatest risk faced by a board. In a department with reported history of very few unexplained deaths what was the unitary board doing? Where was the oversight and assurance, what was the quality committee doing and who was scrutinising the incident reports? Who on the board had their ear on the ground listening to the rumbling sounds?

I haven't ent read this yet. Bu, is it just me that think the women look very similar?

Behavioural Science…..hmmm. In everything I have read so far about this terrible tragedy I’m most surprised that nobody, even in the killers personal life, apparently had any inkling at all that there was something significantly lacking in her - at the very least in terms of compassion? This troubles me greatly. My son was born 23yrs ago at the fantastic John Radcliffe hospital & it just seems completely unfathomable to me that psychological testing wouldn’t root out anybody so callous in a highly intellectual (and I am not) workplace?

Well done Nadeem. Very balanced and thoughtful approach