A Tale of Two Doctors And A Murdered King By Giovanni Di Stefano
In 1978 at the University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology Professor Keith Simpson was delivering a lecture to aspirant medical students. Some were alarmed when he opened with the words. ‘Doctors are in a particularly good position to commit murder and escape detection. Their patients, sometimes their own fading wives, more often merely aging nuisances, are in their sole hands. ‘Dangerous drugs’ and powerful poisons lie in their professional bags or in their surgery. No one is watching…