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Hey everybody, this is Tina again with Good Nurse, Bad Nurse. Welcome back to another episode of this podcast where we talk about healthcare professionals doing both good and bad things. That's pretty much it. That's what we do. So for today's episode, it's just going to be me. I don't have a co-host today. I'm just going to get on here and talk about these stories that I found. I almost can't wait to get to...

The Goodner story, it's a doctor and his team in England. And it is truly, your jaw is going to be on the floor when I tell you about this. I can't wait to get there. It is just an amazing story. It's unbelievable. It truly is unbelievable. The whole thing is going to end with you just going, wow, this is beautiful. So can't wait to get there. But in the meantime, we got to start out with, you know, the bad. We like to end on a good note, right? We're going to start off with,

with a story that is also set in the United Kingdom. And this is the story of Dr. Thomas Kwan.

In early 2024, so not long ago, it's just now early 2025, so early 2024, the United Kingdom was shaken by a chilling case that seemed straight out of a crime novel. Don't a lot of these cases sound like that? Dr. Thomas Kwan, a respected general practitioner from Sunderland, meticulously lauded

to murder his mother's long-term partner, Patrick O'Hara, using his medical knowledge and access to resources. This case delves deep into themes of greed, betrayal, and the dark potential of a trusted profession turned lethal. We're too familiar with that stuff here, right? So Dr. Kwan was 53 at the time and had a

established a reputable career at the Happy House Surgery in Sunderland. So for those of you that don't know, it took me a while to figure this out. I read a lot of books that are set in like the United Kingdom and I just like reading for some reason, and especially listening to audiobooks for like psychological thrillers that are set in

the UK. I love to listen to the audiobooks because of the British accent. And also, they're so mysterious and atmospheric, and I just love them. So one thing that I've learned from that, though, the reason that I'm saying this is the name of this Happy House Surgery

It's in the United States, when we hear the word surgery, we think of like surgical intervention. We think of going into an outpatient center or a hospital, going into like an operating room and being cut open in one way or another and like doing a procedure. That is surgery here. So when someone says they're going to surgery, they're going to surgery.

they're going to have like a procedure to be cut open and have something done. Well, that's not, from what I understand, and you guys let me know, I know you will, but let me know. But this, from what I understand, that just really means clinic there. I think it just means clinic. It's like, this is a general practitioner's physician office.

But it's called surgery. And it took me forever to read that or to understand that. And I would be reading, I was just thinking, they're going to surgery? And reading about physicians talking about, I'll have to be in surgery or I have to go back to surgery. And I'm just like, finally, it was like, ding, ding, ding. Okay, they use that word differently. So just to let you know.

In case you weren't familiar. So he was known for his dedication to his patients and built a seemingly stable life with his wife and young son. However, we all know that that can be deceiving for lots of people. You know, we show one thing to the world and then beneath that facade, there can be simmering tensions, you know, with family and that he was definitely wrong.

That was going on in their family with his family, primarily revolving around financial matters. That's obviously very common as well. And inheritance concerns. So his mother, Jenny Lung, had been in a relationship with Patrick O'Hara for like two decades. And this is something that I've wondered about before, about how

You know, you have a family, you have a, you know, this family with children, they raise their children, and maybe they accumulate some wealth. And it's just maybe they have a home, you know, whatever they have, they have. And that's something to leave to their children when they pass away at some point in the future.

But then one of the couple passes on, you know, the parent of these adult children. And then the surviving member of that couple remarries or, you know, gets into a long-term relationship with someone. And then what? Like...

How do you, you know, you've been married for a long time. Do you just like share everything? And I would imagine that's just like a conversation that has to be had, especially before you make any long-term decisions. But it's something that I've thought about before, about how people go about dealing with that sort of thing. And this was what came up with...

Dr. Kwan and his mother and her boyfriend, longtime boyfriend, partner, Patrick O'Hara. So in 2021, Lung updated her will to ensure that O'Hara could continue residing in her new castle home if she should pass away before him. That seems reasonable to me. To me that they're living in this home together now,

Even if it was hers before, they've been together for 20 years. It's his home. If something happens to me, the vast majority of the wealth is going to go to my adult children or split up, however. But you will be allowed to stay in this home until you pass away, and then it will go to the children. I feel like that is very reasonable.

Well, that decision, apparently Dr. Kwan did not agree with me because that decision infuriated him. He felt that he should be entitled to the entirety of his mother's estate. And so the strain in their relationship just escalated, as you can imagine. He even started installing spyware on his mother's laptop to monitor her financial activities.

So, driven by a toxic mix of greed and resentment, he devised an intricate plan to eliminate O'Hara from the equation altogether. So in November of 2023, O'Hara received a letter on what appeared to be, and we're going to put appeared in quotation marks,

to be official NHS letterhead. I feel like I need to throw in these little caveats because just in case you don't know, NHS is the national health system. It is the healthcare system, the public health healthcare system in the UK. And it's free to all.

Imagine that. But informing him of a scheduled home visit for a COVID-19 booster shot. Okay, so he gets this and he's like, oh, this looks nice and official, right? A subsequent letter included a QR code linking to a medical questionnaire, adding legitimacy to the ruse. I mean, he gets a follow-up document or letter

And it's got this QR code. I mean, this sounds legitimate and sounds like somebody went to a lot of thought, really put a lot of thought into this whole thing. But you know what? It wouldn't be, the story would not be on Good Nurse, Bad Nurse if he got away with it. So that should tell you something right there. You know, one thing that I always say on this podcast is like, you know, if you're thinking of doing something good,

nefarious if you're thinking of doing something illegal, committing a crime, doing something to harm someone else. Obviously don't. Just don't do it. How about just be a good person? But if you're just dead set on doing something because you just are that kind of person, at least have the self-preservation to understand that smarter people than I'm sure you think you are

have sat down and meticulously attempted to plan out a very intricate plot of putting an end to another human being. And they get caught all the time, all the time. So just throwing that out there for whoever needs to hear it.

So on January 22nd in 2024, Kwan checked in to a premier inn in Newcastle under the alias John Chan. He meticulously disguised himself as a community nurse named Raj Patel. He employed a wig, fake facial hair, tinted glasses, and a medical mask to obscure his identity. And this throws me off, even though he put, like,

Even though he had like the wig and the facial hair and the tinted glasses, I still feel like it would be weird because they knew each other. He had been with his mother for 20 years. I don't know how in the world he didn't, did he not say anything to him? He didn't recognize his voice. It just seems odd to me, but clearly it worked. So there's that.

So Kwan arrived at his mother's residence, where O'Hara welcomed him in, believing he was the nurse scheduled for the booster shot. During the visit, Kwan conducted routine checks before administering the injection. O'Hara immediately experienced excruciating pain, prompting Kwan to hastily exit the premises.

So following the injection, O'Hara's condition deteriorated rapidly. He developed severe pain and blistering at the injection site. He was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, which, as most people I think know, is a life-threatening, flesh-eating disease and definitely necessitates multiple surgeries, prolonged hospital stays. It is...

I've taken care of patients with this in the hospital before, and it can take down the healthiest of individuals. Young, it doesn't matter, you know, people going for hikes up in the mountains and maybe trekking through bodies of water. Or maybe just kind of like wading out into a lake, fishing, just different situations like that.

And there's just some kind of like bacteria or something alive in that water that ends up in, you know, if you've got a cut on you, ends up in your bloodstream, ends up in your flesh and starts, you know, this is not that really that kind of podcast, but I mean, it kind of is sort of turning into horror here. But that's what happens.

And it can spread so quickly that people can lose limbs and definitely lose their life over this. So whatever he injected him, whether he maybe just, I mean, why would he, if he thinks he's killing him, why would he try to use, you know, clean technique? Why would he care if he was, whatever it was he was injecting him with injects?

you know, was sterile or not. So clearly was not. And that caused him to have this medical emergency and

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A man calls an ambulance. They come and get him, take him to the emergency room. There, I think they call it A&E. And they're like, okay, what's going on? And he was, oh, well, I was at home and home health came and gave me a COVID booster. And it just started hurting really bad to the point that I, you know, it was just severe blustering and just started doing this. And I would imagine by the time I got to the hospital, who knows what it looked like.

Well, they're going, that does not at all coincide with someone who was just giving you a booster, a COVID booster. That is, something is not right here. So they called the Northumbria police and investigations revealed that, of course, the NHS letters were forgeries. And there was no record of a nurse named Raj Patel.

So, law enforcement pieced together Kwan's actions. There were surveillance cameras that captured his movements. CCTV is everywhere. As I mentioned earlier, you, I don't care how smart you are, you can't get away from the fact that there is closed circuit television all over the place, all up and down the streets everywhere.

Every house, it's everywhere. You cannot go anywhere in this world anymore that you're not on camera somewhere. And so just the fact that he thought he was going to go somewhere, well, it saw him arriving at the hotel looking one way and then leaving in this disguise. And CCTV also saw him with that disguise leaving his mother's home.

His vehicle was identified. He had put false license plates on there. Like I said, he thought he had planned this whole thing out down to every detail and did not miss anything, but clearly he did. So a raid on his home, we're not even done with the level of just, oh my goodness. A raid on his home uncovered a cache of hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, liquid mercury, and materials of ricin productions.

I've talked about another person using, I think maybe multiple times on this podcast, where they ordered seeds like from over some on the Internet. And, you know, we're trying to like chop them up and slowly poison someone. And supposedly it's not detectable. Yeah, I would assume anything is detectable these days. People just don't even think you can get away with it.

The case proceeded through the judicial system, and there were significant developments. For one thing, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder and administering a noxious substance. He initially denied the former, but admitted to the latter. Then, after he faced overwhelming evidence, he changed his plea to guilty for attempted murder during the trial. So...

In November 2024, he was sentenced to 31 years and five months in prison. The judge emphasized the breach of public trust and the calculated nature of his crime. And yeah, 31 years. I mean, think about this. We're talking about, you know, you go all the way back to the beginning of this story. And this woman who, this is her house. It is her estate. And she's

She is, the only thing she's wanting to do is just to make sure that he is provided for. Should she, something happen to her, this long-term partner, 20 years, has a place to stay for the rest of his life. And that wasn't good enough. Versus spending 31 years and five months in a cell, locked up, away from everyone, losing your job that, you know,

You must have been good at it, good reputation. Patrick O'Hara's life was irrevocably altered. He had physical and emotional trauma. He endured severe physical pain, multiple surgeries, and a prolonged recovery. The psychological impact included post-traumatic stress disorder and the disillusion of his long-term relationship with lung, as you can imagine the stress that that put on that relationship.

And that's it.

And that's just something that we all need to think. Most people listen to this podcast, I think, are in health care, nurses. I know there are some nurses. They're mostly nurses or they're CNAs. They're phlebotomists. They're respiratory therapists. They're occupational therapists, physical therapists. I always feel like when I start down this road, I feel like I know I'm forgetting people. I know I'm forgetting people. There's so many of us and we're trusted by people. We're trusted with these very intimate moments. We're trusted in these

these very vulnerable moments. And we should take that very seriously. But unfortunately, some people allow greed and selfishness to get in the way of the reason that they went into health care to begin with. And that's very sad. That's very sad. So I guess it wraps up the bad doctor story. I told you guys I was so excited to get to talk to you about this story.

Good nurse story. And it's, it's a doctor as well. This, you guys, I'm telling you what, like seriously, like make sure you're sitting down before you listen to this story. It's just, it's a great one. It's just one of my favorite ones that I've done. So,

This is the story of Dr. Andrew Bennett. As I said, this is set over in England as well. I tried to find healthcare professionals that sort of match the bad nurse story that I did, and then maybe even the setting, if at all possible. So I was glad that I was able to find this story.

It was supposed to be an ordinary day for 37-year-old Natasha Sukunbi. He was nearly full term in her pregnancy. So like so many expectant mothers, she was excited, a little nervous, and counting down the days until she would meet her baby.

But on that fateful day in December of 2024, something went terribly wrong. As Natasha sat in the waiting room of Milton Keynes University Hospital's A&E department in England, that's, of course, the emergency department, as we would say here in the United States, she suddenly collapsed. In an instant, her body went limp, her pulse disappeared, and the room erupted into chaos.

Natasha's heart had stopped. This was a pregnant woman in cardiac arrest, one of the rarest and most life-threatening medical emergencies a doctor or any healthcare professional can face. Time was now their greatest enemy. A mother's heart had stopped beating.

Maternal cardiac arrest is not just rare, it's catastrophic. It occurs in only 1 in 30,000 pregnancies, and when it does, doctors have mere minutes to act. The mother's body, which has been working overtime to support the growing baby, becomes incredibly fragile under extreme stress. If resuscitation is delayed by even a few minutes, the chances of survival for both mother and child plummet.

For Dr. Andrew Bennett and his team, there was no time to hesitate. The statistics were grim. If a mother's heart doesn't restart within four minutes, her baby's oxygen supply will be cut off, leading to brain damage or death. And if the baby isn't delivered within five minutes, their chances of survival drop to almost zero.

But Natasha's heart had already been still for 14 minutes. Every second that ticked by was a step closer to tragedy. Yet instead of surrendering to the odds, the medical team did something almost unheard of. They performed CPR and an emergency C-section at the same time. A perimortem C-section...

is an emergency procedure in which doctors deliver a baby from a mother who is clinically dead or near death. The goal is not just to save the baby, it can actually help restart the mother's heart by relieving pressure on her major blood vessels. So, it is so rare.

that most medical professionals will go their entire careers without performing something like this. And their survival rate, almost non-existent, if not done within five minutes. Natasha had already been gone for nearly three times that limit.

Yet Dr. Bennett and his team refused to give up. Thirty medical professionals surrounded Natasha, each playing a crucial role. As chest compressions continued, another set of hands carefully made the incision. Blood loss was a risk, but waiting any longer would mean certain death for her baby. Incredibly, within moments, a tiny baby girl was lifted from Natasha's lifeless body. She was alive.

The room, still frantic, now had two lives to save. Natasha remained unconscious, her body refusing to restart. But with the baby delivered, her doctors had a chance. Her heart had been still for 14 minutes, but they kept going.

The miracle happened next. At the very moment her daughter, baby Bo, took her first breath, Natasha's heart began to beat again. It was something no one in that room had ever seen before. Against every odd, a mother who was clinically dead for 14 minutes had come back to life and her baby had survived.

Three days later, Natasha opened her eyes in the intensive care unit. Her body had been through something unthinkable, but she was alive. And then the nurses told her the most unbelievable part of the story. She had given birth. Tears filled her eyes as she reached for her newborn daughter, Bo, whom she had no memory of delivering. She said, it doesn't feel real. I went into A&E thinking I had a chest infection, and I woke up three days later with the baby.

Baby Bo had survived the ordeal with no complications, despite having been delivered under the most impossible circumstances. Natasha's story is one of the most astonishing medical recoveries ever recorded. The fact that both she and her baby survived is nothing short of a statistical anomaly. Only 54% of women who suffer cardiac arrest while pregnant survive at all. Babies delivered more than 10 minutes after the mother's heart stops almost never make it.

Most newborns who go without oxygen for that long suffer severe brain damage or worse. Natasha's 14 minutes of cardiac arrest should have been fatal, but thanks to the quick thinking of Dr. Bennett and his team, both she and her baby defied the odds.

Even seasoned doctors were left speechless. This doesn't happen, Dr. Bennett later admitted. Not like this. Not with both of them surviving. Today, Natasha and Beau are healthy and thriving. Natasha still can't believe what happened. I'm just grateful, she said. Grateful to be here. Grateful that I get to be Beau's mom. And she said mom because they say mom there, which I love.

For the doctors and nurses who worked that night, the case is one they will never forget. A reminder of the razor-thin line between life and death and the power of medicine when everything goes right. Against all odds, against science and against time itself, Natasha and Beau survived and the world got to witness a true medical miracle. Oh, I love that story so much.

Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this episode of Good Nurse, Bad Nurse. And in the meantime, you can send me an email. I'd like to hear from you guys. Tina at GoodNurseBadNurse.com. You can check us out on social media at Good Nurse, Bad Nurse. And I always have to remind you before I go, even if you're a bad girl or a bad boy, be a good nurse.