The underlying story, that a health-care provider would deliberately harm their patient to remain in contact with them is disturbing on a number of levels, and reflects an obsessive behavior that absolutely frightens me. We trust doctors and nurses to make us better and stories like this, and in real life, where they harm and even kill their patients to make themselves admired. Munchausen by proxy is the psychological term and all the more horrifying that it is common enough to require its own name...