HAROLD SHIPMAN
DOCTOR VISITS TURNED DEADLY
We all expect doctors to take the greatest care of us. We trust them with our lives. And yet there are some doctors who become obsessed with harming their patients. Perhaps the worst of all killer doctors was England’s Dr Harold Shipman – one of the most prolific serial killers of all time. He killed his patients for his own pleasure, betraying those who trusted him in the most unimaginable ways.
His method was both simple and horrifying. First, he’d diagnose his patients with an illness they did not have. Then, he’d inject them with a lethal dose of diamorphine. The estimated 250 people he killed between 1975 and 1998 had absolutely no idea that a routine visit to
