Proof that GP appraisals work
July 25, 2008
A GP from Scotland was suspended for six months for giving a suicidal patient sleeping pills to enable the patient to kill herself.
According to The Independent, health authorities became suspicious after he listed helping patients at the end of their lives as one of his achievements during his GP appraisal.
Surely there is nothing wrong with ‘helping patients at the end of their lives’, but perhaps there was more to it than the article suggests.
Dr Kerr also told psychiatrist Dr Alexander Cooper, to whom he referred Patient A three months before her death: “Some years ago she discussed suicide with me and I’ve been in the habit of supplying her with barbiturate tablets which would assist her in her endeavour.”
A treatment for depression you wont find in the textbooks! (or even on google)
Entry Filed under: General Practice. Tags: assisted suicide, depression, euthanasia, GMC, GP appraisal, sleeping tablets, suicide.
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