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Criminal

The Nurse

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When Amy Loughren started working as a nurse at Somerset Medical Center, she did everything she could to hide the fact that she had a heart condition. And then, another nurse named Charles Cullen discovered Amy’s secret. He told her that he would keep it, but she didn’t know that he was keeping his own secret too. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Tell me a little bit about what an ICU nurse does.

0:35.0

So as an ICU nurse, we are really taking care of the most sick patients in the hospital.

0:50.2

They could be there because they had a heart attack. They could be there because they have problems with their lungs and breathing and they need to be on special machines and special drips. They can have so many different IV bags hanging. They can have different

1:09.9

apparatuses attached to them that only ICU nurses know how to manage.

1:17.0

Amy Lockrin had been working as a nurse for almost 15 years, when in 2001 she got a job at Somerset Medical

1:26.6

Center in New Jersey, about four hours away from where she was living.

1:31.8

And I made an arrangement with the hospital that I would come down. I would work only on weekends and I would stay in the hospital. For that I was paid an exorbitant amount of money and also I needed that money because I was quite

1:49.8

sick and I needed a procedure that my insurance was not going to cover completely.

1:58.0

Amy told us she'd had issues with her heart since getting into a car accident in 1993.

2:05.5

She saw a lot of doctors, many of whom said her heart problems were stress-related.

2:11.4

She worked night shifts. Finally, she got a diagnosis, electrical

2:16.9

cardiomyopathy. At that point they were talking about putting me on the

2:22.0

transplant list.

2:23.9

Did you tell the hospital that you had this condition?

2:28.0

No.

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