Nurses hid patients from Dr Death, inquiry told

NURSES hid critically ill patients from an overzealous surgeon dubbed “Dr Death”, claiming he would stalk the intensive care unit searching for people to operate on, an inquiry in the Australian city of Brisbane was told yesterday.

“We were seeing these patients dying every day and we couldn’t do anything,” nurse Toni Hoffman said as she choked back tears.

“We just thought, what on earth could we possibly do to stop this man.”