Retired alloy admits assisting 3 patients die


“These were people who we suspicion had mental capacity, who had looked at
a options, who had motionless what was a best march of movement for them and
come to this conclusion.”

He combined that on any arise there was a “fair volume of discussion” before
he prescribed drugs that, if taken in an overdose, would be adequate to end
their lives.

“I insisted that a people concerned should hit their kin and
if a kin were in agreement with this afterwards we would lift out my part
in a agreement,” he said.

He pronounced a couple, in their eighties, struggled to get out of their home
since of opposite medical problems.

He told The Herald ewspaper: “They asked for something that they
could take in an overdose that would lead to their suicide. we pronounced that I
wanted them to tell their daughter what was going on and if she had no
eager objections afterwards we would give them a medication that in fact I
did.”

The third chairman was a licentiate who was pang from ongoing respiratory
problems and bad bladder control and asked him about a series of
anti-depressants he would need to swallow to finish his life.

Dr Kerr said: “He took a overdose and we went in to see him. He was
still alive and we phoned his sister to tell her what had happened and to say
that we was not formulation to send him to hospital, and she was fine with that.”

According to a GP, a male remained alive for dual or 3 days, during
that he visited him to safeguard he was not suffering. He was interviewed by
prosecutors about a box and asked if he was in a man’s will. Dr Kerr
pronounced he had not benefitted financially from any of a deaths.

He concurred that his purpose in any of a cases had been bootleg and said
a cases were reported willingly to a procurator fiscal, who motionless a
charge was not in a open interest.

Dr Kerr’s acknowledgment comes as a eccentric MSP Margo MacDonald, who has
Parkinson’s disease, is again seeking to move brazen a check to allow
assisted suicide. Her initial check before a Scottish Parliament was rejected
by 85 votes to 16.

Dr Kerr pronounced he believed it should be authorised for doctors “if they wished”
to assistance patients finish their lives.

Five years ago a General Medical Council found him guilty of bungle for
prescribing sleeping pills to a suicidal patient. He granted sodium amytal
to an 87-year-old lady in 1998 after she voiced unhappiness with her
peculiarity of life and pronounced she had deliberate suicide.

He also prescribed temazepam to a lady in Dec 2005 and she was found
passed during her home 11 days later.

Dr Kerr, who worked out of Williamwood Medical Centre in Clarkston, was
dangling for 6 months and told that his actions were “inappropriate,
irresponsible” and not in his patient’s best interest.

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