> Part of the problem of modern society is that statistical murder of thousands is treated as less of a crime than a normal murder of one person.

Society is actually quite consistent on that point (unfortunately). The body doing the statistical murder here is the regulator of the hospital system and it is part of the same organisation (the government) that handles the direct murder through the army. People tend to treat horrible missteps in war and medicine about the same.

It might be nice in a moral sense if there was some consistency. It isn't too late to disgrace George Bush and make the rest of his days a living hell, for example. But as political strategies go that seems like a bad idea.