Harold Shipman, a British doctor, was believed to have murdered about 250 patients. In most cases, he injected his victims with a lethal dose of the painkiller diamorphine. Most of his murders were committed during home visits, and when Shipman signed the death certificates, he attributed the incidents to natural causes. He often falsified medical records to suggest that patients were sicker than they actually were.
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