A doctor who gave a patient six times* the proper dose of a painkiller has told a General Medical Council panel he "bitterly regrets the error." Dr Michael Stevenson, 57, of Cumbria, said he thought he had given a 59-year-old builder 5mg of diamorphine in 2005, but had actually administered 35mg. The panel heard the man stopped breathing and needed an antidote.Well, apart from the woman you killed in the same year, of course.
In 2007, the 57-year-old GP admitted manslaughter after accidentally giving a female patient a fatal overdose.
He was given a suspended jail sentence for the mistake which killed Marjorie Wright, of Workington, in January 2005...
"Clearly I bitterly regret the error. I go over it in my mind and try to find an explanation. It has had a big effect on me. I have never ever made an error of that magnitude in my life."
* I make that seven.
Source; BBC
2 comments:
So, given the opportunity of getting my hands round his throat and then,having rescusisated him, I could condemn him to a life of eternity with Gordon Brown, I could plead my sorrow and ask for forgiveness?
"I make that seven"
You weren't using the BBC calculator.
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