The Patient Killer: Harold Shipman and the Architecture of Medical Murder

The Patient Killer: Harold Shipman and the Architecture of Medical Murder

In January 2000, Harold Frederick Shipman became the most prolific serial killer in recorded British history, a trusted general practitioner who murdered approximately two hundred and fifty of his own patients across a twenty-five-year career in the NHS. His weapon was diamorphine. His cover was the death certificate. His enabler was every institution that should have stopped him and did not.

The Patient Killer is the d...