title: [Homicide crimes in hospitals].
abstract: Report of some cases of willful homicide in hospitals of the former GDR. In no case the patient has wished his death. Besides compassion the cause of the homicide was a large carefully expense and in two cases the attempt to prove the incapability of the competent doctor. The patients were only means to an end. All the cases are discovered by the great number of obscure death.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Gerichtliche Medizin und Kriminalistik, Universität Leipzig.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dürwald
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002423:Cause of Death; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005859:Germany, East; D006708:Homicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D016365:Liability, Legal