Nurse hid patients from surgeon dubbed 'Dr Death'

Nurses hid critically-ill patients from an over-zealous surgeon dubbed “Dr Death”, claiming he would stalk the intensive care unit searching for people to operate on, an inquiry in Brisbane was told today.

“We were seeing these patients dying every day and we couldn’t do anything,” Toni Hoffman said as she choked back tears. “We just thought, what on earth could we possibly do to stop this man.”