The Shadow in the Ward: How One Doctor's Crimes Expose the Dark Side of Compassion The conviction of Johannes M.
, a Berlin doctor accused of killing 15 patients, raises disturbing questions about what drives someone to administer life ending treatments to those in their care.
Prosecutors described him as having "a lust for murder," a characterization that echoes similar cases in Germany's recent past. The scale of the atrocities committed by Johannes M.