Do you know who Dr. Harold Shipman is? You might have heard of him as Fred Shipman.
British doctor and serial killer who murdered about 250 of his patients, according to an official inquiry into his crimes. Shipman’s murders raised troubling questions about the powers and responsibilities of the medical community in Britain and about the adequacy of procedures for certifying sudden death. Shipman was born into a working-class family in Manchester. A bright child, he became interested in medicine as he watched his mother receive morphine injections to ease the pain she suffered while dying of lung cancer.
In 1970 he received a medical degree from Leeds University, and a few years later he became a general practitioner in Lancashire. In 1975, after it was discovered that he had written several fraudulent prescriptions for the opiate pethidine, to which he had become addicted, he was forced out of his practice and into drug rehabilitation.
In 1977 Shipman found work as a general practitioner in the town of Hyde in Greater Manchester, where eventually he gained respectability and developed a thriving practice. In 1998 one of his patients, an 81-year-old woman, was discovered dead in her home only hours after Shipman visited her. Her family was perplexed by the suddenness of her death (she had appeared to be in good health), by the fact that her will had been changed to benefit Shipman, and by Shipman’s insistence that no autopsy was necessary.
In 2000 he was convicted on 15 counts of murder and one count of forgery and sentenced to life in prison. Shipman committed suicide while in prison, hanging himself in his cell. A government inquiry was ordered to determine how many more patients Shipman may have murdered; in 2005 an official report found that he had killed an estimated 250 people beginning in 1971. Some people say His motives were unclear; some speculated that Shipman may have been seeking to avenge the death of his mother.
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/harold-shipman
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/shipman-harold.htm
https://allthatsinteresting.com/harold-shipman
Do you think what he did was wrong? Why or Why not?
Why do you think he did what he did?
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Kenzie,
Much of this has been plagiarized.
I think that there is no question to the fact that what Dr. Shipman did was wrong. He murdered hundreds of innocent people and exploited his patients for financial gain. I don't know why he did it, whether to avenge his mother or to just get money from the wills.
Of course what he did was wrong because killing peole should never be justified. I'm sure the death of his mother was very hard on him, but that is no excuse to kill over 250 people. He may have been psychologically sick, but someone should have suspected this in his 30 years of practice.
i agree with you that is no excuss
It of course was wrong that what he did and there is no way to justify it. I have no clue why he did it but it might have something to do with the stuff he learned in medicine and maybe he got psychologically sick.
true maybe he did get sick and that's why he did what he did but we really don't know
I don’t know why he did it. I think what he did was wrong because he killed helpless people. Usually, people can trust doctors but in this case they shouldn’t have. People should look into the doctor that they are going to go see for whatever you need.
I100% totally agree with you and yes we should trust doctors
I think what he did was clearly wrong. I never think it is okay to just become a serial killer. I believe the reason he did this is due to his mom dying of lung cancer. He was probably trying to make himself feel better or by getting payback. Or somehow make other people go through what his mom did.
yes i agree with the payback for his mom but i can see why he is thought it was payback
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