10 Evil Doctors who Abused their Patients in the Most Creative Ways

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

Dr. Marcel Petiot

Marcel Petiot (1897-1946) claimed about 60 lives through conducting criminal activity during the 1st and 2nd world wars. After finishing medical school, Petiot started an internship in a mental hospital. The irony is that Petiot himself was diagnosed with not only one but many mental disorders.

Dr. Petiot managed to establish a remarkable reputation to allure patients. Soon enough, the clinic was filled with rumors that Petiot was conducting numerous illegal abortions and prescribing addictive remedies excessively.

Outside the clinic, he was caught burning human bodies in his house’s basement. The police first sent firefighters due to the heavy smoke coming out of the chimney only to find human remains in the fire. In 1946, Petitot was sentenced to death.

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Dr. Michael Swango

Michael Swango is a serial killer who used his medical practices to end more than 60 lives. Nurses who worked with him started noticing that healthy patients were dying at a fast rate without any obvious reason.

One day, a nurse caught him injecting some liquid into a patient who later became awfully sick. His co-workers also started noticing that whenever Swango brought food or drinks in, many patients become strangely sick. Swango was found guilty of poisoning his patients and co-workers and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.

After his release, Swango forged his ID to become Dr. Daniel J. Adams. Once again, he started killing his colleagues and patients. In 2000, the doctor was sentenced to 3 consecutive life terms in jail. Apparently, Swango was overjoyed as he committed his crimes, according to passages he’s written in his notebook.

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Dr. Jayant Patel

This doctor was responsible for nearly 90 deaths in only 2 years (the real number of victims is unknown.) However, he wasn’t mentally ill, didn’t carry out any insane experiments, and had no murderous intentions. The problem with Patel was his terrible lack of hygiene and disgusting incompetence.

According to Patel’s co-workers, he performed surgery on other surgeon’s patients, carried out unnecessary operations, and severely harmed and even killed so many patients. Due to his horribly gross practices, Patel was nicknamed Dr. Death.