A General Medical Council disciplinary panel is holding a three-day hearing in the case of Dr William Lloyd Bassett. Bassett is accused of injecting around 10 times the accepted amount of diamorphine into a 65-year-old man who was suffering from terminal lung cancer in May 2009.
In his notes, Bassett described telling the family about what he had done. He said they discussed the high dose of morphine and were "told honestly what morphine did, ie) hasten death". The notes also said: "Family accepts this." The hearing was told Dr Bassett said in his notes it was "large dose but he is dying and I would like him to die in peace."
The doctor accepts that he administered 100mg of diamorphine, that he took no action to reverse it, and that his actions put the patient at risk of respiratory failure. But he denies he did it to hasten the patient's death. (Independent; Shropshire Star)
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