Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Clinicide

  • Medical murder

    Susan JacobAustralia Medical murder or clinicide is defined by the psychiatrist Robert Kaplan as the “unnatural death of multiple patients in the course of treatment by a doctor.”1 Medical murder must be distinguished from euthanasia in that patients do not request the termination of their life. It must also be differentiated from death resulting from…