On several occasions she was the first one to notice that a patient was going into cardiac arrest and to sound a “code blue” to bring the emergency resuscitation team. She always stayed calm, and was competent and efficient in administering to the patient. Sometimes she would give the patient an injection of the heart-stimulant drug epinephrine to attempt to restart the heart before the emergency team arrived, occasionally saving the patient’s life in this way. The other nurses had given her the nickname “Angel of Death.”But that same year, three nurses approached the authorities to express their growing suspicions that something was not quite right. There had been just too many deaths from cardiac arrest in that particular ward, they felt. There had also been several unexplained shortages of epinephrine. The nurses were starting to fear that Gilbert was giving the patients large doses of the drug to bring on the heart attacks in the first place, so that she could play the heroic role of trying to save them.
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