The common theme of the murders committed by Lucy Letby, Beverley Allitt and Harold Shipman is the failure of colleagues to consider that someone in the caring profession could act with malice towards patients in their care (Lucy Letby joins grim list of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, 18 August).
Perhaps we should consider the contrary – that people with psychopathic traits would preferentially join these professions so as to be in a position to exert control and harm patients who are inevitably vulnerable.
