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Article: 'Suicide case' GP is suspended; Guilty of misconduct: Dr Kerr.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 25, 2008
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Byline: Lucy Collins
A GP who prescribed a suicidal patient a potentially lethal dose of sleeping pills was yesterday banned from practising medicine for six months.
Dr Iain Kerr prescribed 30 sodium amytal pills to the retired businesswoman in 1998 after she told him she had thought about killing herself.
The 61-year-old Glasgow GP was found guilty of misconduct by the General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Panel.
It branded his actions 'inappropriate, irresponsible, liable to bring the profession into disrepute and not in your patient's best interest'.
John Donnelly, chairman of the panel, told Dr Kerr: 'You made a ...