Krapton is so full of tit. When was it either “cut” or “held back”. They read out a snippet of everyone’s favourite troglodyte Janet’s statement weeks ago when they read out a summary of the answers from the survey. Then they published it in full the other day.
Like you say, utterly irrelevant anyway.
Interesting article! Looks like very often people can regard somebody that’s utterly evil as really professional and trust worthy!
Shipman was excellent doctor, say colleagues
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Staff and agencies
Tue 28 Jun 2005 12.43 BST
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Harold Shipman was regarded as "practising excellent medicine" by his colleagues, a doctor told a disciplinary hearing today.
Dr Jeremy Dirckze is one of four family doctors appearing before a General Medical Council fitness to practise panel in Manchester on charges of serious professional misconduct. The GPs signed an abundance of cremation forms for the serial killer's patients.
Shipman is thought to have murdered at least 250 of his patients by administering lethal injections.
When Dr Dirckze was asked whether he ever had doubts about the truth of what Shipman said, he answered: "No."
Dr Dirckze told the hearing: "He was always regarded as being authoritative and practising excellent medicine. He was up there practising ideal general practice. He gave the impression of being above average. He was practising a superior level of medicine to the rest of us."
Dr Dirckze worked close to Shipman's one-man practice in Hyde, Greater Manchester. He countersigned 35 cremation forms between 1995 and 1998 for the mass murderer. Dr Dirckze is one of six doctors who signed a total of 214 of these documents.
Two of the GPs were cleared of the charges last December due to insufficient evidence. The watchdog's investigation has now reconvened to hear the cases of the remaining four.
Dr Dirckze, who still practises at the same Brooke surgery in Hyde, is accused of serious professional misconduct in relation to 12 of the deaths. He denied the charge and said he, other doctors and patients "trusted Shipman implicitly", before the killer's arrest.
He told the panel that there was no reason to suspect Shipman of any wrongdoing before his arrest in 1998.
Opening the case for the defence, Adrian Hopkins QC asked Dr Dirckze about cremation forms he was asked to sign by Shipman.
"Were any of the descriptions Dr Shipman gave medically implausible?" Mr Hopkins asked.
"No," Dr Dirckze replied.
Mr Hopkins asked: "Was there ever any reason to doubt the diagnosis or cause of death?"
Dr Dirckze responded: "No. They were very comprehensive."
Asked whether he ever had doubts about the truth of what Shipman said, Dr Dirckze again replied: "No."
Dr Dirckze added that Shipman would often go "beyond the call of duty" to help his patients and would visit people "two or three times a day" when they were ill.
"That was his way of giving them more appropriate care than just sending them to hospital," said Dr Dirckze.
He added that Shipman was a popular doctor among patients because he gave them "a more personal approach".
Dr Dirckze said: "He came across as very caring and would go beyond the call of most GPs' duty.
"Very often we heard stories of what he was doing that the rest of us wouldn't dream of doing.
"He used to call in on an elderly disabled patient on his way home after work and would wheel him round the block in his wheelchair."
Shipman is thought to have murdered at least 250 patients with lethal morphine injections between 1975 and 1998.
He was jailed for life in January 2000 after being convicted of 15 counts of murder at Preston crown court, and he was found hanged in his Wakefield prison cell early last year.
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