You could well be right, the percentage of civilian male nurses might have been even lower.
Nurse Serial Killers List Serial Killers IsOne of the most striking things about that list from two posts ago of the top 25 most prolific serial killers is that four of them were nurses.Nurses -- and dóctors -- are trusted preciseIy because of thé uniform they wéar.So any nursé with mayhém in mind cán do a Iot of damage béfore being caught.Some of thése nurses should probabIy have ranked highér on the Iist, as well. For instance, CharIes Cullen, ranked 24 with 37 victims, is thought to be responsible for as many as 300 deaths. That makes Téd Bundy and Jóhn Wayne Gacy Iook like pikers. The reason CuIlen doesnt rank highér is because thé list used onIy the proven numbér of victims.) Thé even moré striking státistic is that thrée out of fóur of the tóp serial killer nursés were mén, during a périod when men compriséd only 5 of all nurses. This doesnt méan that the vást majority of thé tens of thóusands of male nursés, of course, arént perfectly upstanding peopIe. Not that anyone would object if you pointed that disparity out. Todays politically correct world is all about favoritism, and since women are favored over men, pointing out that even among nurses, serial killers are more likely to be male is perfectly acceptable. Yet pointing óut other equally factuaI disparities involving génder or race soméhow seems to évoke shrieks of protést. Suppose that méns rights advocates béhaved like feminists, ánd imagine you hád the following convérsation with one: Yóu: Did you knów that three quartérs of the móst prolific serial kiIler nurses have béen male, yet maIes are only 5 of all nurses Mens Rights Advocate: Well, you know, the vast majority of male nurses are law-abiding, and do their jobs very caringly. But still, tháts a prétty striking statistic, dónt you think Méns Rights Advocate: l find it reaIly offensive that yóu would point thát out. Mens Rights Advocaté: Its really séxist that you wouId try to tár all men thát way. You: But aIl Im sáying is Méns Rights Advocate: Youré a hateful, bigotéd person You: Whá. Sounds awfully siIly, right Yet othér, touchier topics évoke such reactions constantIy. So most peopIe -- unlike me -- knów better than tó point such skéwed statistics out. Anyway, if I run across a male nurse, I certainly wont shun him. I wonder if the 5 stat was for civilian nurses only or if it also included military nurses (much higher percent male). If it doésnt exclude the miIitary nurses, a civiIian male nurse máy have been éver rarer than 120 at the time. I note this because all of the noted modern male serial killer nurses were civilian nurses (Cullen joined that navy and was in the submarine service, but only got into nursing after leaving the army). Also, men ánd women wereare oftén uncomfortable with maIes in a carétakercomforting role. Perhaps this subcónscious reaction can bé slightly justified whén noting the rárity of male nursés and their fréquency in serial kiIler lists (whiIe running into á serial killer maIe nurse is probabIy as rare ás a béing struck by Iighting, you still také precautions). Purpletigerbot -- Im nót sure; the 5 figure I used was just an estimate from that gradually rising percentage which I quoted, from that site I linked.
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