MedCrimes: a Medical True Crime Podcast · Kate Macy and Devon Rebecca

Micro-Dose! Christina Aistrup Hansen

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Perneil notices patients stabilizing, then repeatedly going into cardiac arrest on the night shift.

1. MedCrimes profiles Christina Aistrup Hansen, a Danish nurse linked to deaths and an attempted murder at Nykoping Falster Hospital. 2. Hosts Devin and Kate frame the case, note the episode is remote, and explain that Devin handles the pronunciation of Swedish and Danish names. 3. The episode asks how Christina, described as highly skilled in the ER, became known as the 'Danish Devil of Death.' 4. Christina was born on August 13, 1984, entered Herlev Nursing School in the mid-2000s, and later worked at Nykoping Falster Hospital. 5. She moved from a stable med-surg unit to the accident and emergency wing, which the hosts compare to an ER. 6. Colleagues called her ambitious and committed, but several nurses disliked her and felt uncomfortable around her. 7. The story shifts when Perneil Kersman Larson, a new single mother and nurse, joins the unit in 2014. 8. Perneil and Christina work late shifts together, call themselves the 'dream team,' and begin saving patients from near-death events and cardiac arrests. 9. Perneil then notices a troubling pattern of young patients and low-risk cases becoming unstable after arriving at the hospital. 10. She also notices missing doses of morphine and diazepam and sees that the cardiac arrests cluster during her shifts with Christina. 11. The host says Danish narcotics controls were less regulated at the time, which made diversion harder to catch. 12. Administrators initially tell Perneil not to spread gossip without evidence, reflecting a culture of silence around co-workers. 13. A relationship with doctor Dr. Niles London helps corroborate Perneil’s concerns and pushes the hospital to investigate. 14. Detectives later review about 20 deaths signed off by Christina and conclude she injected morphine and diazepam into patients’ bloodstream. 15. The episode names Arnie Herskoff, Vigo Holm Petersen, Anna Leis Pulson, and Maggreth Rossman as cases tied to the investigation. 16. Rossman survives the attempted overdose after Perneil’s quick thinking, and that intervention helps trigger Christina’s arrest on March 1. 17. At trial, a psychiatric personality survey finds histrionic personality disorder, and the prosecution argues that Christina sought attention through dramatic medical crises. 18. The hosts quote the prosecutor’s line that Christina made patients her 'extras' and discuss the dispute over intent versus cause of death. 19. The episode is conversational, highly detailed, and built around Devin and Kate’s back-and-forth explanations. 20. People interested in medical true crime, nursing ethics, and Danish cases will likely want this; listeners wanting light or non-medical stories may skip it.

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A hospital concern meets workplace silence, and corroboration changes how seriously it is examined.

Christina Aistrup Hansen's case is framed around the uneasy path from suspicion to proof inside a hospital, especially when the person voicing concern is warned away from gossip without evidence.

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You want a short medical case where a nurse's workplace suspicion needs stronger evidence before anyone will take it seriously.

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