A Berlin doctor goes on trial, accused of murdering 15 patients
The prosecutor's office brought charges against the 40-year-old doctor 'for 15 counts of murder with malice aforethought and other base motives' before a Berlin state court. The prosecutor's office is seeking not only a conviction and a finding of particularly serious guilt, but also a lifetime ban on practicing medicine and subsequent preventive detention.
Murder charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. If a court establishes that a suspect bears particularly severe guilt, that means he wouldn't be eligible for release after 15 years as is usually the case in Germany.
Parallel to the trial, the prosecutor's office is investigating dozens of other suspected cases in separate proceedings.
The man, who has only been identified as Johannes M. in line with Germany privacy rules, is also accused of trying to cover up evidence of the murders by starting fires in the victims' homes. He has been in custody since Aug. 6.
The doctor was part of a nursing service's end-of-life care team in the German capital and was initially suspected in the deaths of just four patients. That number has crept higher since last summer, and prosecutors now accusing him of the deaths of 15 people between Sept. 22, 2021, and July 24 last year.
The victims' ages ranged from 25 to 94. Most died in their own homes.
The doctor allegedly administered an anesthetic and a muscle relaxer to the patients without their knowledge or consent. The drug cocktail then allegedly paralyzed the respiratory muscles. Respiratory arrest and death followed within minutes, prosecutors said.
The doctor did not agree to an interview with a psychiatric expert ahead of the trial, German news agency dpa reported. The expert will therefore observe the defendant's behavior in court and hear statements from witnesses in order to give an assessment of the man's personality and culpability.
So far, it is unclear what the palliative care physician's motive might have been, dpa reported. The victims named in the indictment were all seriously ill, but their deaths were not imminent.
The defendant will not make a statement to the court for the time being, his defense lawyer Christoph Stoll said, according to dpa.
The court has initially scheduled 35 trial dates for the proceedings until January 28, 2026. According to the court, 13 relatives of the deceased are represented as co-plaintiffs. There are several witnesses for each case, and around 150 people in total could be heard in court, dpa reported.
An investigation into further suspected deaths is continuing.
A specially established investigation team in the homicide department of the Berlin State Criminal Police Office and the Berlin public prosecutor's office investigated a total of 395 cases. In 95 of these cases, initial suspicion was confirmed and preliminary proceedings were initiated. In five cases, the initial suspicion was not substantiated.
In 75 cases, investigations are still ongoing in separate proceedings. Five exhumations are still planned for this separate procedure, prosecutors said.
In 2019, a German nurse who murdered 87 patients by deliberately bringing about cardiac arrests was given a life sentence.
Earlier this month, German investigators in the northern town of Itzehoe said they were examining the case of a doctor who has been suspected of killing several patients .
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Recently, we asked doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals of the BuzzFeed Community* to tell us their most entitled patient stories, and I can't believe how nightmarish some of these are. Here are some of the worst stories. *We also used responses from these Reddit threads. 1."I am an ER nurse. ... Most ERs are overcrowded. There's simply no space to care for the staggering amount of people who walk through our doors. As a result, patients are often in hallway spaces. One evening, a patient's husband berated me because, 'I'm a millionaire. Why isn't my wife in a room?' I said 'Look around you. Every space we have is being used.' To be clear, she was in no way, shape, or form in an emergent state. With arms crossed and a look of disgust on his face, he replied, 'Well, can you send some of them out so my wife can have a room?'" "Sure, Kevin. We'll just stop CPR on someone right now and get that room ready." —Anonymous, Washington State 2."During my surgery rotation in medical school, I was (peripherally) involved in a trauma code in the emergency room. The trauma victim was intubated, had two chest tubes, and there was blood everywhere. By the time it progressed to pericardiocentesis (a needle onto the sac of the heart to remove any blood outside the heart but in the pericardium that can be the cause of cardiac arrest in trauma) a lady grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the trauma bay, yelling at me that her daughter in the room next door was cold and needed a blanket." —u/crazyhair72 3."When I was a fresh EMT, one of my first calls was for a lady with 'abdominal pain.' The pain was pretty nondescript and seemed to move around. ... As we are loading her up, she says that she needs to go to a hospital in a major city, about an hour away from us. This route would have included passing three suitable hospitals. This got my partner and I exchanging some glances. So, my paramedic partner says, 'No, we can take you to the nearest appropriate facility.' This upsets the patient, who begins screaming about customer service and the like." "Well, we happened to work for a shitty private company that shall remain nameless, one that prides itself on meeting each 'customer's' needs. We knew that if we denied this lady, we would get written up, and the manager would say something like, 'We need to serve our customers, and besides, we can charge double the rate after you pass the first hospital.' ... So we negotiated the patient down to a hospital in a suburb of said big city, about 40 minutes away. When we arrived, she refused to stand and transfer, so we got a nurse and pulled her over to the hospital bed from our gurney. Now here's the punch line. As soon as the nurse lowered the hospital bed down, the patient kicked her feet over the edge, stood up, and began to walk out of the room. The nurse asked her where she was going, and the patient responded, "I'm leaving, I have to get to the big city for my appointment." My partner, with perhaps his very last breath of goodwill, said, 'Why didn't you tell us you had a medical appointment to go to?' The patient replied loudly, 'HAIR appointment, and now I'm going to have to hitchhike because YOU wouldn't drive an extra 15 minutes!' Nurses, partner, and I all stood there gob-smacked. The nurses looked at her record — she'd checked out AMA from different facilities in their medical group, after being brought in by ambulance more than 10 times. She was on a public health plan and clearly had no intent to pay a cent for any of it." —u/ClutchClutch 4."I work in pediatrics, and we encourage parents to continue parenting (feeding, consoling) while we focus on the medical things. We had this one mom who was a demanding jerk, but the icing on the cake was that she would write us notes in the middle of the night, saying she had taken her contacts out and couldn't see well enough to change her daughter's diapers. What does she do at home — let the baby sit in piss and poop all night?" —Anonymous Related: 5."I was kneeling on the floor performing aggressive CPR on a patient who had collapsed and a lady who was with a patient who was waiting for treatment of a minor injury pulled my hair to force my attention to her and then held up an empty coffee cup and said, 'I really need another cup.' Another staff member led her to the coffee station where she filled her cup — AND proceeded to pour the scalding hot coffee down my back. 'Maybe that'll teach you to listen to people,' she said." "I needed treatment for serious second-degree burns to my back and some 'sensitive' areas of my body (coffee dripped down my back and underwear). She was arrested for assault, but the cruel entitlement of this woman, while I was desperately trying to keep someone else from dying, just blew my mind and broke me inside. Recovering from the burns was less painful." —Anonymous 6."I'm an EMT. ... I had a patient once who shriekingly demanded a back massage to 'calm her nerves' (she did not get one). Also of note was the fact that there was nothing detectibly physically wrong with her." —u/megalodon319 7."We just had the biggest snowstorm in 40 years. We had a patient call for an ambulance because she didn't want to be home alone (fair, I'll empathize. She had anxiety). She then complained because we didn't shovel her driveway, and she had to walk through three feet of snow to get to our truck." —u/BrokeBackMedic 8."I had some teenage brat say she wanted to speak to my manager. I laughed out loud at her and said that this was a hospital, not a McDonald's." —u/angelust 9."A patient was coughing/throwing up a large amount of blood. I was dealing with EMS to send her to the ER (this was in a rehab). I got to my next patient at 9:10 p.m.; his pain meds were due at 9 p.m. He was livid, I explained why I was slightly (like 10 minutes) late, and he said, 'I don't give a shit about anyone else. Let her fucking die for all I care, just make sure my meds are on time, little girl.' Little girl? I was 50 at the time." —u/Apple-Core22 10."Going back many years, but my favourite: Me: (inspecting a child's rash) 'It's impetigo.' Mother: 'What's that?' Me: 'School sores, it's a ...' The mother literally said, 'It can't be that, we are rich!'" Me: '......' Mother: 'Can we see someone more senior?' Me: (gets ED consultant to review) Consultant: 'Hello! Oh, what do we have here? Oh, look, impetigo!' Mother: (stares in disbelief, asks to see a paediatric dermatologist as they can't possibly have a 'poor' disease) The ED consultant was a super relaxed guy and said, 'yep' and called our most Pediatric skin specialist. He is a big deal in the pediatric dermatology world and our weird rash expert. He came to review the patient. We watched him enter the cubicle; a couple of minutes later, he exited, asked for a script pad, scribbled his order, and went back. He handed the mother the script, and she profusely thanked him for his time and expertise. She glared at us as she left. Dr. Weird Rash Expert turned to us and said 'Impetigo.' I just told her it was an unusual variant that children of wealthy people get when in the tropics.'" —u/cardboard_box_robot 11."I used to do food service in two connected hospitals and idk wtf was wrong with the patients and their families. ... Guests of the patients thought that they could eat for free and that we were their personal chefs and grocery store. 'But I'm the dad/grandma. I have insurance.' Insurance is for the patient, not the people visiting the patient. 'Can I have a box of Rice Krispies treats for the road?' Not from us; there are two grocery stores up the street, though. 'Can you make the pizza in this very specific way and special order me a specific flavor and brand of sparkling water?' Where do you think you are??? 'Can you cut up my son's food and blot the chicken tenders?' We give you utensils and napkins for a reason. What do you do at home?" —justchillman 12."I was shaving a patient's abdomen to prep them for a C-section (back when we used to do that), and the patient wanted me to touch up her bikini line, too." —u/goforbroke432 Related: 13."I was working as an ED Tech. We had a rich family come in with their teenage son, who had a migraine. He had a garbage bag covering his eyes due to light sensitivity. The light in the room was turned off for his comfort. I explained it was unsafe for him to have plastic over his face and had several towels I could trade for the garbage bag to help keep the light out. Both he and his father agreed, and I explained I'd make it quick. I already had the towels by his head. As soon as I moved the plastic bag from his eyes, this kid literally snapped his fingers at me and told me to 'hurry it up.'" "The towel was already halfway on his face, and he called me an incompetent twit.I stood there for a second with my mouth on the floor and then told him. 'I understand you're in pain, but that is NOT how we treat people. If you snap your fingers at me or anyone else again, I'm not coming back to help you.' And I didn't set foot in that room again." —Anonymous, 46, Hartford, CT 14."I am a physical therapist who specializes in the assessment and treatment of spinal/pelvic girdle disorders and misalignments. ... I had this one patient that I worked with for many, many years. She said that I was 'the only one who knew how to fix her.' She was a terrible patient who never followed up with subsequent scheduled appointments, her home exercise program, or proper self-care. She came to see me only when she was in immediate crisis because she had done something to hurt herself. ... I had just had a total hip replacement and was not working. She actually contacted me, AT MY HOME, and asked if she could come over so that I could treat her!" "Not only is this not ethical, but I also had physical limitations from my surgery, and there was no way I could do that kind of work. I told her that if I could actually treat her, I would be AT the office, doing my normal job. 'But I will pay you,' was her response.I was finally able to fire her as my patient, but unfortunately, she still comes to the office because she glommed herself onto one of my work colleagues." —Anonymous, 58, Seattle 15."Got dispatched for ETOH (excessive alcohol consumption) in the bar scene in my area. As my partner and I pull up, we see this guy start limping over. We unload the stretcher, and he goes, 'Hey, I think I twisted my ankle, I need an ambulance.' Well, our patient that we were originally called for has passed out on the ground in their own vomit. We tell him that we can call for a second rescue for him if he needs it, because we have to attend to our ETOH patient. Or he can just take an Uber to the nearest hospital, which is five minutes away. He goes, 'Well, I have really good insurance, so the ambulance ride will cost about the same as an Uber, which one will be faster?' Then this guy proceeds to stand around huffing and puffing about how it's 'ridiculous' that he can't just hop in with us because 'You guys are going to the same hospital anyways.' Dude, this isn't a ride share Uber, and we ain't carpooling." —u/iweewoo 16."I'm not a doctor, but I work at the front desk of a doctor's office. A woman came in to her appointment on the sixth floor, but when her appointment was over, the elevator was down. She demanded we call the fire department so that they could carry her down the stairs. —u/just-another-Bekah 17."I saw a 30-year-old guy who came in with complaints of chest pain. After seeing and examining him, his story sounded like GERD, but a cardiac workup was started. I got called away from the module to deal with a teenager who was shot and ended up dying. When I got back, the guy's mom was there and was irate that I hadn't been in to talk to her in the 15 minutes since she arrived. I tried to explain that his workup had already been started, there were other patients in the department who also needed my attention, and many of whom were far more sick. She lost it and said she didn't care about anyone else, and her son was the only one who mattered. She wouldn't calm down and was eventually escorted out by security. " —u/hobbesghost 18."Not a doctor, but I had a rather memorable experience. When I was about 21, I began experiencing gallbladder issues. One night, the attack got so bad that I crawled to my roommate's room and asked her to take me to the hospital. As soon as we got there, the nurse immediately took me in for assessment. I was in so much pain that I couldn't talk, so my roommate gave the nurse all my information. The nurse went to get me something for the pain, and my roommate went to call my parents for me, so I was sitting alone in intake for a couple of minutes. This lady comes in, literally picks me up by the arm, and leads me back to the waiting area. I didn't even realize this lady wasn't a nurse. All of a sudden, I hear yelling, and I learned later that was transpired was that this lady was actually a patient who was mad that I went to intake before her, led me back to the waiting room, and tried to take my spot in the intake room. She was escorted out by security. " —u/sillybanana2012 19."ER nurse here. We had a minor local celebrity show up in the middle of the night for back pain. He had another man with him, so I asked how they were related. The visitor stated that he was the patient's chauffeur and personal assistant. The visitor then proceeded to inform me of the patient's identity, as if I should be grateful to be taking care of this celebrity. Woo. Go him, I guess. Having not grown up in the area where I live now, this meant I had literally no idea who he was. Honestly, didn't care and still don't." "The visitor also told me that money was no object and that the patient required only the best care, and if that meant a helicopter to a specialist or whatever, they could make it happen. The ER I work in is a large academic medical center with more specialists than it knows what to do with. We get people flown in to see them, not usually the other way around. I spent the rest of the night running back and forth while he screamed bloody murder over his back pain, and his personal assistant followed me around expecting me to cater to his employer's every whim. 1/10, do not recommend." —u/SparkytheEMT 20."An alert and oriented patient was screaming to everyone in the hallway that he needed his melatonin. We were coding the guy across the hall." —u/agirl1313 Related: 21."Last time I was in the ER, a local news 'anchor' came in. I actually did recognize him. He walked by where we were sitting, and I saw him go up to the check-in area and immediately demand to go straight to triage. I heard what you'd expect: 'Don't you know who I am?' The nurse replied, 'I do not, and I don't really care.' He said something like: "I don't want to be waiting with all these sick better not make me wait.' To which she told him to have a seat and wait. It was really funny to listen to. It's the second local news personality I've encountered in my life, and both were super loud dicks." —u/billbapapa 22."I had a 100 percent capable patient demand I move their pillow from one side of their bed/body to the other while they sat in bed with nothing in their hands." "I had a patient report me for speaking to another nurse in passing while walking down the hall (the patient was being pushed by me in a wheelchair; apparently, I was not concerned enough about her because I spoke to someone else). I had a patient purposely knock a glass flower vase down and shatter it on the ground because she was mad at/arguing with her spouse, and then demand I clean it immediately." —u/Tellmeanamenottaken 23."Nurse here. My colleague was discharging a patient and, in the process, asked if he needed his parking validated. He sneered at her and responded, 'I'm on the board of this hospital. I don't need your validation to do anything.' Turns out he was a local philanthropist and multimillionaire, and I guess we were supposed to know that." —u/pizzawithartichokes 24."I work in patient registration at the ER. A guy came in on an ambulance, and we had absolutely no rooms available. The patient was brought in for 'vomiting' and was moaning and groaning, albeit quietly. After the paramedics had waited with him in the hall for 10-15 minutes, the charge nurse had them set the patient out in the waiting room, since he was ambulatory and not critical or anything. The paramedic told me that the guy had literally been at the hospital down the road that morning, and apparently didn't like whatever they told him, so he called the ambulance to take him to a different hospital. He hadn't vomited since that morning, and he was perfectly fine otherwise." "After they set him in the waiting room, the dude decided this was the worst pain of his life, and he was dying. He went from moaning and groaning to full-on yelling in about five minutes flat. I work at the check-in window, and I had a full view of his theatrics, where he slumped over some chairs, hollering and whatnot, and then got up and paced and did the same thing again. When the triage nurse (who had been taking vitals on another waiting patient) went down the hall to start an IV, the guy came up to the window and said that he was having trouble breathing. Then he proceeded to give me a laundry list of symptoms, including 'I feel like I'm about to pass out' and 'I'm sorry I'm being so unprofessional and loud, but I am in so much pain it's unbearable,' etc. My thing was, if you can sit there and tell me all of that effortlessly, you're not having trouble breathing. I was also not having it that day since not even an hour earlier, a girl faked a seizure in the lobby, so I just nodded and said, 'Okay, thank you for letting me know.' When the triage nurse finally called him back, this guy suddenly couldn't walk or stand on his own. When they wheeled him back to the triage area, the nurse started to do an EKG since he said he was having chest pain (another symptom that wasn't present when he originally checked in). After he hollered and rolled around all through the vitals and everything, they took him back to a room that just opened up, and he was still carrying on up until the doctor came in to see him. After that, I didn't hear a peep. His friends showed up and visited him, and all was well. Then, when the doctor was ready to discharge him, all of a sudden, his yelling started up again. I don't know what this guy's problem was, but apparently, he desperately wanted to be admitted to the hospital. Oh, and his main complaint was listed, 'ate some bad pizza rolls, vomited twice this morning.'" —u/katandhercats 25."I had a patient attempt to take the hospital bed blanket [when she left]. When I told her it had to stay, she said, 'That's fine, but I am going to take this pillow.' And when I told her I couldn't let her take that either, she told me I was selfish." —u/Tellmeanamenottaken 26."We were recently in the middle of a snowstorm. Roads had turned to total crap. We got to this house. The woman who called said all the right things — chest pain, blah blah blah. ... BLS (Basic Life Support) wrapped her up, carried her down the stairs, pulled out the stretcher, and placed her in the ambulance. She was yelling at her husband to take her purse before we left. We got her in the back of the ambulance. BLS asked, 'Lights or no lights?' I said, 'No ride to the hospital.' The patient started freaking out. 'I want to go lights and sirens! That is why I called you. My husband could have taken me if you were not going to do that.'" "I took a breath and said, 'Ma'am, you are pretty stable. Be grateful. We only go lights and sirens for people who are critical." She said I handed her the form to sign for the 2500 dollar ride to the ER." —[deleted] 27."I've worked in the ER for 25 years, and I have seen some wildly entitled stuff. The thing that stands out: Several staff members were in a room divided by a curtain with a patient who was in cardiac arrest. While a nurse was doing chest compressions and a doctor was intubating this person—the people on the other side of the curtain could be heard complaining that their call light has been on for 5 minutes and they were irritated. I yanked open the curtain and SHOWED them what was taking so long." —fluffylegend788 28."A family member pushed their way into a bay as we were coding a patient to ask the nurse (who was doing compressions) when their family member was going to get the water they asked for." —u/jack2of4spades 29."I had a lady tell me I would give her a bath because I am a nurse and it is my job (she lived at home alone and could do for herself). I explained to her my role in helping her be independent, but stated we would assist as needed. I sent my big male CNA to assist 'as needed,' which it wasn't." —[deleted] 30."A patient was demanding a sixth pillow to get comfortable. I went to get it, but was sidetracked when my other patient coded. Eventually, I took the pillow to patient one and got yelled at for 'taking too long.' I explained I had been busy doing CPR across the hall. The patient paused: 'You mean where you have to press on the chest and breathe for the person cause their heart stopped?' Yeah. That. 'Well, whatever. You still made me wait way too long.' 🙄🖕" —u/-OrdinaryNectarine- Related: 31."We had a patient who called for hip pain. It was around 5 o'clock, and I work in a pretty big city, so it was rush hour. We got there, and she was in her apartment, sitting on an electric scooter. She said her hip was bad and she needed to get it replaced, and that the pain was unbearable. She said she had an appointment about six months ago for the surgery, but she missed it. I explained to her that an ER is not going to do emergency hip surgery for a chronic problem. She said she didn't care. She wanted to go to the hospital to get the appointment set up." "We were out of trucks at this point, and she put a little cherry on top — she wanted to go to a hospital in a nearby city that, because it was rush hour, would take about 45 minutes to get to. I suggested a closer hospital because they weren't going to do anything for her anyway, and she went on this tirade about how she had the right to call an ambulance ... and the right to go to whatever hospital she wants. My partner, who was frustrated also, said, 'Ma'am, you're right, but you need to understand you're taking a 911 ambulance out of service for an hour so you can go make an appointment. Well, she called my partner a racist and demanded we take her anyway. So we said yes, ma'am. She complained the whole way to the hospital and asked for our badge numbers and supervisor's phone number. Which I happily gave her." —u/PancakeDrawer03 32."When I worked inpatient, it was pediatric neurology. One of my coworkers once was taking care of a teenager with a headache. ... The mom complained about everything. At one point, she asked her nurse when the Neurology team would be rounding. The nurse responded, 'They're rounding now.' Mom scoffs, 'Well, I would have thought they would start with the sickest patient on the floor.' They did: my patient, a young adult with Marfan syndrome who'd had a stroke and was on a heparin drip." —u/LadyGreyIcedTea 33."One time, I was cleaning up a patient after a bowel movement, and I guess she felt the need to fart, so she asked me to hold open her ass cheeks so that she could fart (this would be farting right at me; I feel like this is important to mention). I politely declined and told her the fart could wait for another time." —[deleted] 34."Not me, but my aunt a few years ago. She works as an infectious disease doctor. Her department is quite a way from the main entrance, but they do have an urgent clinic at night. ... This woman went to the infectology department with her daughter and they had to wait for my aunt for about half an hour, because my aunt was called to another department for consulting. When she finally got to this woman, she was immediately snippy with her, showing her clear disrespect. Turned out, they knew what the daughter had, they just wanted some meds...'to ease the pain.' What did she have? Worms in her ass that itched her." "Supposedly, the daughter's ass itched so badly, she couldn't sleep. When my aunt asked, why they couldn't come during the regular hours, because this was not case for urgent clinic, or ER, or whatever you want to call those night shifts, and because she would have to take sample for laboratory, which only worked during the day, they got all pissy and said, they couldn't come because the daughter had to work. Work, you ask? Yes, work. The daughter and the patient of this story was a 30+ year old woman, with children of her own, who had to take her mother with her to the doctor, because of worms that itched in her ass during the night. They got pissed and left. But the story doesn't end there. The mother is some kind of journalist, or self-proclaimed journalist, who only writes blogs. Aaaaaand she went ahead and wrote looooong rant about how 'poorly' they were treated and how they had to go to the pharmacy and the pharmacist gave them some coal pills (I think, dont remember it anymore) and how our medical staff is bad." —u/JumpingPoro 35."I was working in a resort town medical facility. It's basically just an urgent care facility; the closest hospital is at least two-hour drive. It was a busy ski season day with lots of broken bones that needed surgery, which means the most critical injuries get sent to the closest hospital for transfer first. This is because they are transported by ambulance, and the town can't send all their ambulances out on transfers and have none in town for emergencies. So this means many people have to wait a long time for a transfer. (Major critical traumas would be air lifted, but stable patients would have to wait.) This lady had a broken bone (probably her ankle, a ski boot fracture) and was waiting to be transferred because she needed surgery, and was getting impatient. She was told she would be next to be transferred until another patient came in with multiple fractured vertebrae in their spine." "Well, this lady was not happy. She had a fit, saying all the usual things: 'I was here first,' 'I've been waiting all day,' and 'I need to get out of here.' She couldn't walk to the bathroom, so the nurses brought her a bedpan so she could pee. Instead of waiting for someone to come collect it, she just dumped it on the floor. ... [She] acted like a 3-year-old and thought, 'I'm going to dump my pee all over the floor, so they want to get rid of me.'" —Anonymous 36."I'm not a doctor, but I was waiting to see my grandpa in the hospital. This parent started grilling the doctors about how their 'baby should go first' and how they were 'obviously in pain' (the kid was looking at the fish tank). The doctor said, 'We have people who are in real emergencies. Your kid just got a dried bean stuck up their nose. You can wait.' The parent said, 'WeLL My bAbY ShoUlD gO FiRst! He Has tO Go to BeD!' The doctor said, 'Well, if your kid has to go to bed, then they can go home and you can come back in the morning.' The parent was dumbfounded." —u/yeetus159 37."Years ago, in the ICU, we had been coding a patient multiple times, and it was very hectic on the unit. We had a needy family on the unit who was very upset and said something along the lines of, 'I don't care if someone is dying…we've been waiting for (insert food/drink selection) for over an hour.' I'm sure my face said it all." —u/Nursejlm 38."Not a parent, a grandparent — a 10-12-year-old child desperately needed a ton of dental work done (cavities filled mostly, if I remember correctly), and grandma was insistent that it be BEFORE their cruise. The dental office I worked for had a number of dentists, and we had a rule that if a particular patient was seeing a particular doctor, they had to have the procedure scheduled with that doctor. The next available appointment wasn't until well after their cruise. Grandma huffed and said, 'Well, can't you just call someone and move their appointment?'" "I blue-screened at the audacity for at least a minute. When I was able to react again, I responded with, 'I want you to take a moment and think about how you would feel if someone asked you to do that.' She spluttered for a minute and ended up taking the later available appointment, but I still use that as proof that people seriously just need to be verbally reminded that other people do exist in the world occasionally and that you and yours are not the center of the universe." —Anonymous 39."Not a doctor, but a nurse and a mom. This took place in an affluent community in The OC, California. When my son was about five months old, he was in the hospital for a kidney infection. A sick baby girl was admitted into the next crib; she was maybe three months old. The father was present when the baby was admitted, but then he immediately took off. He said something to the effect that he was paying tons of money for his baby to be taken care of in the hospital, so he was going to go home and get a good night's sleep with his wife (who hadn't even bothered to show up)." "Meanwhile, my husband and I were camped out at our baby's bedside through the night. Keep in mind, this was not a NICU or PICU; it was just a regular pediatric unit. This was not a locked unit, and anyone could come in and out through the night (meaning anyone could go in and pick up their baby and leave). Well, as you can imagine, that poor baby cried all night. The nurse did her best, but with multiple patients to care for, she eventually had to call the parents and demand that one of them come back in to hold their baby. They were not happy. I was blown away that they would just leave their baby like that. " —u/please_stopthat 40."I had a family member decline the offer of an autopsy unless I agreed to remove the multiple surgical implants ( artificial hip, stents, etc.). I declined the opportunity and informed them their embalmer could do that." —creativewalrus2361 finally..."A patient's daughter felt it was appropriate to scream on the telephone to staff members. She would then show up at the hospital to see her mother and sneak into the patient's room, avoiding all staff. We had to have a manager go into the room with the staff when the daughter was asking about discharge needs because she screamed at the home care nurse about oxygen delivery to the home. 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Cantargia receives an upfront cash payment of USD 33 million. Cantargia is eligible to receive up to USD 580 million in development, regulatory and commercial milestone payments plus earn-out payments from global product sales. Otsuka Pharmaceutical obtains worldwide rights for the development and commercialization of the CAN10 program. LUND, SE / / July 15, 2025 / Cantargia AB (publ) (Cantargia) (Nasdaq Stockholm:CANTA) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Japanese healthcare company Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (Otsuka Pharmaceutical) pursuant to which Otsuka Pharmaceutical will acquire all Cantargia's assets related to its early-clinical stage CAN10 program. Upon closing of the transaction, Cantargia will receive a USD 33 million upfront cash payment and is eligible to up to additional USD 580 million in milestone payments. Cantargia is also entitled to up to double digits tiered earn-out payments from global product sales. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2025. Otsuka Pharmaceutical will be fully responsible for the development and commercialization of CAN10 globally. Otsuka Pharmaceutical will direct and perform all future development, apply for regulatory approvals and exclusively carry out manufacturing and sales of the product worldwide. In addition to the CAN10 antibody, Otsuka Pharmaceutical acquires 3G5 [1] as a backup antibody and will also have exclusive first rights of negotiation regarding the next-generation IL-1RAP antibodies to be developed by Cantargia for a period of 2 years. CAN10 is an antibody against IL1RAP designed to potently inhibit the activity of the pro-inflammatory and disease promoting cytokines of the IL-1-super family: IL-1, IL-33 and IL-36. CAN10 is currently being evaluated in an ongoing phase 1 clinical trial. "This is a transformative transaction for Cantargia, and we hope for millions of patients suffering from severe immune inflammatory disorders." said Cantargia's Interim Chief Executive Officer Damian Marron. "We are delighted that the strong potential of our CAN10 anti-IL1RAP antibody has been recognised by Otsuka Pharmaceutical. It demonstrates confidence in the strength of our world leading position in IL1RAP biology and antibodies and will allow us to drive forward our platforms and programs in oncology and other diseases." Makoto Inoue, President and Representative Director of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., commented, "Otsuka Pharmaceutical is expanding its research and development pipeline in the field of autoimmune diseases by leveraging the antibody drug platform of our U.S. subsidiary, Visterra, and the low-molecular-weight drug discovery platform of our U.S. subsidiary Jnana Therapeutics. This will further expand and accelerate our research and development portfolio targeting various pathways associated with autoimmune diseases, enabling us to contribute to the lives of more patients." [1] 3G5 is a pre-clinical IL1RAP targeting antibody which is similar to CAN10. For further information, please contactDamian Marron, Interim CEOTelephone: +46 (0)46-275 62 60E-mail: This information is information that Cantargia is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact persons set out above, at 2025-07-15 08:45 CEST. About CantargiaCantargia AB (publ), reg. no. 556791-6019, is a biotechnology company that develops antibody-based treatments for life-threatening diseases and has established a platform based on the protein IL1RAP, involved in a number of cancer forms and inflammatory diseases. Cantargia's oncology program, the antibody nadunolimab (CAN04), is being studied clinically, primarily in combination with chemotherapy with a focus on pancreatic cancer, non-small cell lung cancer and triple-negative breast cancer. Positive data for the combinations indicate stronger efficacy than would be expected from chemotherapy alone. Cantargia's second development program, the antibody CAN10, blocks signaling via IL1RAP in a different manner than nadunolimab and addresses treatment of serious autoimmune/inflammatory diseases, with initial focus on hidradenitis suppurativa and systemic is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ticker: CANTA). More information about Cantargia is available at . About CAN10The CAN10 antibody binds strongly to its target IL1RAP and has a unique capability to simultaneously inhibit signaling of the cytokines of the IL1-super family via IL-1, IL-33 and IL-36. Inhibition of these signals can be of significant value in the treatment of several inflammatory or autoimmune diseases. In preclinical in vivo models of inflammatory diseases, such as systemic sclerosis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, atherosclerosis, myocarditis and peritonitis, a CAN10 surrogate antibody significantly reduced the development of the disease. A clinical phase 1 study, investigating CAN10 in healthy volunteers and psoriasis patients, is ongoing. About Otsuka PharmaceuticalOtsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a total healthcare company that focuses on each individual's potential to enhance their well-being. Our medical-related business provides treatments and diagnostics for both physical and mental health. Our nutraceutical business supports daily health maintenance and improvement. Otsuka's unique products and services are based on scientific evidence, under the guidance of our corporate philosophy: Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide. For further information, please visit AttachmentsCantargia announces the acquisition of its CAN10 IL1RAP immunology program by Otsuka Pharmaceutical SOURCE: Cantargia View the original press release on ACCESS Newswire
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Colorado prosecutors to lay out evidence in firebomb attack on demonstration for Israeli hostages
Colorado prosecutors are set to lay out their evidence Tuesday against a man charged with murder, attempted murder and other crimes in a firebomb attack on demonstrators showing their support for Israeli hostages in Gaza. Investigators say Mohamed Sabry Soliman told them he intended to kill the roughly 20 participants at the weekly demonstration on Boulder's Pearl Street pedestrian mall on June 1. But he threw just two of more than two dozen Molotov cocktails he had with him while yelling, 'Free Palestine!' Police said he told them he got scared because he had never hurt anyone before. Federal authorities say Soliman, an Egyptian national, had been living in the U.S. illegally with his family. The purpose of Tuesday's preliminary hearing in state court in Boulder is for District Judge Nancy Woodruff Salomone to determine if there's enough evidence for Soliman to go on trial there. Soliman already faced dozens of charges in state court as well as hate crime charges in federal court when state prosecutors added murder charges following the death of an 82-year-old woman who was injured in the attack died as the result of her injuries. Karen Diamond helped at her synagogue and volunteered for several local groups, including the University of Colorado University Women's Club and a local music festival. Last week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Cramer-Babycz told U.S. District Judge John L. Kane that federal prosecutors have not decided yet whether to file additional charges against Soliman related to Diamond's death. Federal prosecutors allege the victims were targeted because of their perceived or actual connection to Israel. But Soliman's federal defense lawyers say he should not have been charged with hate crimes because the evidence shows he was motivated by opposition to Zionism, the political movement to establish and sustain a Jewish state in Israel. An attack motivated by someone's political views is not considered a hate crime under federal law. Soliman has pleaded not guilty to the hate crime charges. He has not been asked to enter a plea to the state charges yet. State prosecutors have identified 29 people who are considered victims of the attack, including 13 who were physically injured. The others were nearby and are considered victims because they could have been hurt. A dog was also injured in the attack, so Soliman has also been charged with animal cruelty. Tuesday's hearing was set to move ahead over the objections of Soliman's state public defenders, who asked to delay it after Diamond died and Soliman was charged with murder. In a court filing last week, they said they were not aware of an autopsy report being done for Diamond yet and asked to delay the hearing until October so they would be be able to review 'significant medical records' in advance.
