Dr Howard Martin, 71, is accused of murdering Frank Moss, 59, Stanley Weldon, 69, and Harry Gittins, 74, by giving them overdoses of morphine.
Update: See also this article by Paul Stokes in The Telegraph, Oct. 26.
Rosa By Starlight by Hilary McKay
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British author Hilary McKay has a history of writing odd and quirky
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One wonders if there is something hinky about the British medical system that leads to this God complex. Perhaps rationing care enough leads you to think you can make the ultimate rationing decisions.
I suspect that plays into it. I think there's also been a huge push in the medical professions to bolster the idea that suffering can be eliminated, and should be at all costs. That patients become mere ciphers under such a system, movable from the living to the dead column to keep the living column free of marred or struggling specimens, hasn't seemed to sink in at enough levels, I think.
That surviving family members are finally fighting back, and that prosecutors do see it as murder, gives me hope.
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