The Doctor Who Killed Old Ladies. / Marjorie Miller.
by Miller, Marjorie; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 62Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2001; U.S. News & World Report (Syndicate), 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Shipman, Harold | Murder -- Investigation | Physicians -- Malpractice | Serial murders | Medical personnel -- Malpractice | Serial murders | Great Britain -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: THE DOCTOR WHO KILLED OLD LADIES -- "A year after Harold Shipman was convicted of injecting 15 elderly women with fatal doses of heroin, a government report released Friday [Jan. 5, 2001] suggests that the revered family doctor may have killed closer to 300 of his patients during a quarter of a century of practicing medicine." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article profiles convicted murderer Dr. Harold Shipman and maintains that "few serial killers have wrought so much devastation in such a small town.".Summary: WHEN HEALERS KILL -- "Harold Shipman was a well-loved family doctor in the suburban town of Hyde, England. So when police began investigating Shipman for murder in 1998 after an elderly woman died suddenly, inexplicably leaving him all of her money, many people offered their support. Jane Ashton-Hibbert wanted to send him a card, and her husband planned to leave his own doctor in favor of Shipman. But a year ago [2000], a jury convicted Shipman, 54, of injecting 15 women with lethal heroin doses, and authorities now say he probably murdered as many as 300 more. These days, Ashton-Hibbert runs a support group for families of Shipman's patients, and last week coroners concluded that her own grandmother probably died at his hand." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article examines doctors who kill rather than cure and maintains that better monitoring of medical professionals may prevent such incidences in the future.
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This MARC record contains two articles.
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: When Healers Kill, Jan. 22, 2001; pp. 46-47.
Originally Published: The Doctor Who Killed Old Ladies, Jan. 6, 2001; pp. A1+.
THE DOCTOR WHO KILLED OLD LADIES -- "A year after Harold Shipman was convicted of injecting 15 elderly women with fatal doses of heroin, a government report released Friday [Jan. 5, 2001] suggests that the revered family doctor may have killed closer to 300 of his patients during a quarter of a century of practicing medicine." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) This article profiles convicted murderer Dr. Harold Shipman and maintains that "few serial killers have wrought so much devastation in such a small town.".
WHEN HEALERS KILL -- "Harold Shipman was a well-loved family doctor in the suburban town of Hyde, England. So when police began investigating Shipman for murder in 1998 after an elderly woman died suddenly, inexplicably leaving him all of her money, many people offered their support. Jane Ashton-Hibbert wanted to send him a card, and her husband planned to leave his own doctor in favor of Shipman. But a year ago [2000], a jury convicted Shipman, 54, of injecting 15 women with lethal heroin doses, and authorities now say he probably murdered as many as 300 more. These days, Ashton-Hibbert runs a support group for families of Shipman's patients, and last week coroners concluded that her own grandmother probably died at his hand." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article examines doctors who kill rather than cure and maintains that better monitoring of medical professionals may prevent such incidences in the future.
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