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She took lives instead of saving them
When ninety-seven-year-old Aggie March passed away during the night of November 13, 1984, a visit from Death was not unexpected. She was one of the oldest residents of the North Horizon Center in St. Petersburg, Florida.
However, what was unexpected was that ninety-four-year-old Anna Larson, also a resident of North Horizon, would almost die from an overdose of insulin. Anna was not diabetic so why had she been given insulin? She survived but there was no answer to what had happened.
Insulin is used to stabilize the blood sugar in diabetic patients. When given to a non-diabetic person it may lead to severe drops in the person’s blood glucose levels and may cause death. It is strictly controlled in all medical facilities. At North Horizon, it was kept in a locked cabinet. Only one person had the key, the night nurse, Bobbie Sue Dudley, who had seemed like a good hire for the night shift, that most nurses didn’t want.
Bobbie Sue was born in 1952 in Woodlawn, Illinois to a large religious family. What North Horizon didn’t know was that she had a history of psychiatric problems and hospitalizations. Her nursing license had been suspended back in Illinois. She’d also lost custody of her son because it was proven that she overdosed him with tranquilizers. Her ex-husband made sure she…
