Harold Frederick Shipman's Impact On British Medicine

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Harold Frederick Shipman was a British doctor who had a great impact on British medicine. Unfortunately, Shipman betrayed the trust of his many patients in the most appaling way possible, killing at least 215 and possibly 260 of them.
Harold Frederick Shipman, also known as Fred, was born on January 14, 1946 in Nottingham, United Kingdom to Vera, a homemaker, and Harold Shipman, a lorry driver. He was the middle child of the 3 children his parents had and he was the favorite child of his domineering mother, Vera. She established a high sense of superiority in Shipman at an early age which later on tainted a lot of his relationship, leaving him to be a very alienated teen with not many friends. When she died of lung cancer at age 42, in June

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