3 comments about The Good Doctor (St. Martin's True Crime Library).

1. The only reason that I am giving 4 stars is because the author did not list all the victims of Dr. SHipman's unsuspected reign of terror in Lancashire. In his long career, he probably killed at least 200 victims--men, women, children, for no apparent reason until he was stopped by the law. Sadly, I cannot stop thinking about all the victims who had dreams to see Israel, cruise, grow up, or old with their loved ones in Lancashire. Dr. Shipman was supposed to be respected and trusted with their lives; he killed his beloved patients without such motives at all. The book is an easy read unless you're trying to find out the victims and give them a proper memorial. This book is for those victims and their families! Maybe we can learn from what happened in Lancashire!



2. This is the best book by Wensley Clarkson that I have ever read! The writing is so detailed and so well organized, that I had a very difficult time putting it down!
   
   Clarkson relays the story of Fred Shipman who, in 2000, was convicted of 15 murders; deaths that occured on his watch as their doctor after he induced their untimely demise with overdoses of morphine. Although convicted of only fifteen, it is believed that Shipman is responsible for more than 350 deaths.
   
   In addition, Clarkson does a marvelous job of giving readers an inside view to Shipman's family and tries to relay to the reader how, despite they are still living, they too are victims of this horribly depraved man.
   
   I highly recommend reading this book if you enjoy true crime. Not only is it entertaining, but will serve as an eye-opener into how one should never place one hundred percent trust in their doctor.



3. A well organized, well written book. I have been a nurse for 17 years and whenever I ever hear of a healthcare worker murdering those who depend on them so heavily, it just blows my mind! It just defies everything you were taught or learned.
   HOPEFULLY, the medical establishment has learned something from stories like this, and have ways to police it more QUICKLY than they did Shipman's case.

1 comments about Harold Shipman - Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Dr Harold Frederick Shipman.

1. I have to say that I was very impressed with the information regarding Dr. Harold Shipman who may have been one of Britain's and if not the world's most notorious serial killers. Unlike others, Shipman targeted older women. When he felt like playing God, he took their lives quietly. There was no violence. He would kill them by using a drug. He got away with murder on several occasions because people believed in his story of natural causes. There was nothing natural about it most of the time. He felt like playing God. I believe this book was more solid than the other book I read. They were more ready to provide information on the exhumation of the victims who were mostly women but there male victims as well. Unlike other serial killers, he did not do it because for sexual gratification. He did it because he enjoyed the power of playing God by determining who would live and who would die. There were many healthy women. Unless you read the Shipman Inquiry which is provided online, you can know about all the victims. You can know about whose remains were interred in this book. Thankfully, the authors have decided to reveal that information of which cemeteries. In England, 70% of the deceased are cremated and it would be impossible and not only costly to examine the cremated remains if they are still available. Many families have scattered their loved ones remains. Sadly, the tragedy is that the doctor was trusted and beloved while he was also suspected. Shipman could have a cruel streak which he mistreated office employees as well as some patients and colleagues. Now, he is gone. HE committed suicide in prison.