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Article: GP is accused of giving OAP pills for suicide
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 15, 2008
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A DOCTOR has been accused of prescribing tablets to an 87-year-
old patient to enable her to take her own life.
Dr Iain Kerr, of Williamwood Medical Centre in Clarkston, East
Renfrewshire, appeared before a General Medical Council hearing.
He is accused of giving the woman - who it was said was afraid of
becoming a burden on her family - sleeping pills against official
guidance.
The woman later died in 2005 of an overdose from different drugs.
A further five cases of inappropriately prescribing patients the
same sleeping tablets, which official guidance say should be used
only to treat "severe and intractable insomnia", were also brought
before the hearing.
The GMC panel was told a poem ...