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Shipman Case Study

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Other than his mom dying when he was 17, Shipman had a pretty normal life.The question of why he killed so many of his patients still remains a mystery today. However, there are some conclusions people have made. Some believe it was because he witnessed his mother’s suffering and believed that sudden death at the end of a trusted and friendly physician’s syringe was a preferable option, others say that he hated women (most of his patients were women) for some unusual reason, or that he was obsessed with power-power that was perhaps exemplified by his choosing the time and manner of his own death and ultimately frustrating those who wanted to know “why”?

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