2. Egoistic
The second characteristic of the psychopaths are egoistic. Egoistic is the personality of the psychopath when they are enjoying others pain and even
laughing with others misfortune. Michael Swango also had not empathy to his patients although it was
regarding about the people‟s life when his patients turned blue and need help in the urgent situation. He was enjoying and even laughing when his patients were
died. He felt no empathy for his victims, so complete was his absorption in his self. The thrill of killing and getting away with was simply had no deterrent in the
form of empathy of the people around him. Michael Swango
scrawled “DIED” in large capital letters across the person‟s name when his patient died. Michael Swango liked celebrating the
demise and wanted to call attention to it. “Rosenthal went up to Michael and
asked him why he did such a thing “Don‟t you feel bad that she died?” Michael gave Rosenthal a
blank look, “No,” he replied. “That‟s just what happens” Stewart, 1986:33.
Michael Swango was on probation in America Ambulance. He had responded to an emergency call in Rochester, Illionis, in a small town close to
Springf ield. Michael‟s instruction was to administer any emergency treatment
called for and transport him in the ambulance to the nearest hospital but he made the patient walk to his own car ad told the family to drive him to the hospital
themselves.
At 8 A.M on February 6, the nurse, Richie, gave Barrick a bath. Barrick was alert, talked, cheerful and seemed to be recovering after what happened
before. Richie noticed that the Central Venous Pressure CVP was low in the central line, an intravenous tube supplying medication to the major blood vessels.
She called a doctor to check the line and checked other patients. Few minutes later, Michael Swango entered to the Barrick‟s room. Michael Swango had drawn
the curtains entirely around Barrick‟s bed. Richie was shocked when she came back to the B
arrick‟s room. Barrick had turned blue and stopped breathing. The nurse screamed “Code Blue Code Blue” then began mouth to mouth
resuscitation, desperately trying to get breath into the patient lungs. The nurse looked up and saw Dr. Michael coolly watching her from the back of the room,
did nothing to assist her or the patient. “That is so disgusting,” Michael said of the nurse of her efforts at mouth to mouth resuscitation, his voice tinged with
contempt” Stewart, 1986:63. On the afternoon, 20 February, Popko came to visit her daughter who had
undergone intestinal surgery for a deformed bowel. She was sitting close with her daughter when Michael Swango came and asked her to leave the room to give the
injection to raise her blood pressure. He called Popko to his room after he gave the injection to his daughter. He was enjoying the pain of the other people because
he had not empathy. “He leaned back and put his feet on the table. “She‟s dead
now,” Michael said of Mary‟s daughter. “You can go look at her” Stewart, 1986:85.
3. Irritable
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