...is for good men to do nothing, and The Nurse provides a powerful reminder of just how true that is.
The Nurse is an incredibly well done limited series depicting the true story of not only a disturbed woman who committed multiple murders, but also a failed system that remained broken far too long because of the silence of others. If Pernille Kurzmann Lundén was reprimanded by a superior for voicing her suspicions as shown in episode 2, that's another serious matter that the hospital administrators should address. Every entity that involves a group of people working together should make it safe for employees to alert someone in authority of potentially criminal or harmful behavior. This series begs the questions, what has happened to civilized societies that integrity has become the exception rather than the rule, and blowing the whistle feared rather than expected? Pernille's integrity took tremendous courage, which unfortunately is all too often the case.
The injustice of Christina Aistrup's stunningly inadequate 12 year sentence is a slap in the face to her victims and their families. As others have mentioned, Christina may have had childhood trauma that contributed to her psychological problems, and she should be treated if that's the case, but millions have suffered through every imaginable childhood abuse, and yet don't resort to Christina's level of nefarious attention seeking. Christina was not given anywhere near the consequences she deserved, even if the deaths couldn't be linked with 100% certainty to her actions, what she did was unconscionable. If one of the victims had been a child/spouse/parent of someone on the higher court it's doubtful the same opinion would be held. The Nurse series doesn't get bogged down with frivolous filler but delivers a suspenseful story by talented actors that was over too quickly and left me wanting to know more, enough so that I want to read the book, which is the best there is to say about any program. Definitely worth the watch.
The Nurse is an incredibly well done limited series depicting the true story of not only a disturbed woman who committed multiple murders, but also a failed system that remained broken far too long because of the silence of others. If Pernille Kurzmann Lundén was reprimanded by a superior for voicing her suspicions as shown in episode 2, that's another serious matter that the hospital administrators should address. Every entity that involves a group of people working together should make it safe for employees to alert someone in authority of potentially criminal or harmful behavior. This series begs the questions, what has happened to civilized societies that integrity has become the exception rather than the rule, and blowing the whistle feared rather than expected? Pernille's integrity took tremendous courage, which unfortunately is all too often the case.
The injustice of Christina Aistrup's stunningly inadequate 12 year sentence is a slap in the face to her victims and their families. As others have mentioned, Christina may have had childhood trauma that contributed to her psychological problems, and she should be treated if that's the case, but millions have suffered through every imaginable childhood abuse, and yet don't resort to Christina's level of nefarious attention seeking. Christina was not given anywhere near the consequences she deserved, even if the deaths couldn't be linked with 100% certainty to her actions, what she did was unconscionable. If one of the victims had been a child/spouse/parent of someone on the higher court it's doubtful the same opinion would be held. The Nurse series doesn't get bogged down with frivolous filler but delivers a suspenseful story by talented actors that was over too quickly and left me wanting to know more, enough so that I want to read the book, which is the best there is to say about any program. Definitely worth the watch.