All Shipman proposed was that he should take an electrocardiogram (ECG ), presumably the following week.
But Shipman did become a serial murderer and used injected opiates as his method of killing.
But until then the trust that Shipman enjoyed appeared boundless.
He has no reason to suspect that Shipman did anything untoward.
It is entirely possible that Shipman gave a much stronger opiate than pethidine.
Shipman certified that the cause of Mr Mitchell 's death was heart failure.
Shipman recorded the immediate cause of death as cerebral embolus, which had lasted minutes.
The judges had quashed the decision of Alan Milburn, then the Health Secretary, to hold the Shipman inquiry behind closed doors.
The name is of uncertain origin; some derive it from lolium, tares, quoting Chaucer (C. Shipman's Prologue) "This Loller heer wil prechen us somwhat..
We now know that, in later years, Shipman was to become a serial murderer.