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Article: Suicide pill row GP criticised by expert Hearing told doc was wrong to give OAP medicine
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 18, 2008
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A GLASGOW GP accused of prescribing tablets to an OAP to help her
kill herself has come under fire from a GMC expert.
Dr Leonard Peter told a General Medical Council hearing that the
standard of care provided by Dr Iain Kerr fell far below that
expected of a general practitioner.
Dr Peter was called to give evidence by the GMC's counsel on the
third day of the hearing in Manchester, which is considering Dr
Kerr's fitness to practise medicine.
The panel has already been told Dr Kerr spoke in a staff
appraisal about giving the sleeping tablets called sodium amytal to
the elderly woman, known only as Patient A, so she could end her
life.
They have also heard the woman later went on to overdose ...