This Pandemic Nurse Was Hiding a Dark Secret From Her Patients

Squashing Any Suspicions 

Julia loved to take advantage of the most vulnerable patients. Some, however, grew suspicious that the "nurse" treating them wasn't completely capable. Every time someone started to doubt her, she would swoop in and make up some story about how she must have known them before they fell ill. One time she said to a man who questioned her, "Don’t you remember me? Why, when I was a little girl I used to hitch on your wagons!”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.