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Article: GP at centre of suicide row suspended
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 25, 2008
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CAMPAIGNERS yesterday called for a change in the law to allow
patients to ask for help to end their lives, after a Scottish GP was
suspended for prescribing sleeping pills to an elderly woman so she
could kill herself.
Dr Iain Kerr, a family doctor in Glasgow, was found guilty of
misconduct after prescribing the pills to an elderly patient with
osteoporosis, who went on to kill herself using other drugs.
Yesterday, the General Medical Council (GMC) suspended the 61-
year-old from practising medicine for six months after a two-week
hearing in Manchester.
Campaigners said the case highlighted the "moral ambiguity" of
cases where patients ask for help to end their lives
But the medical ...