bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
A FAMILY doctor who kept his job despite prescribing sleeping pills to a suicidal woman has said that he remains in favour of patients having the right to end their lives. However Dr Iain Kerr, a GP in Glasgow, has given an assurance that he will not prescribe potentially fatal drugs to patients who want to [...]
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Troy and Sharlene Kerr admit neglecting tied-up childArticle from: PerthNowFont size:Email article:Print article:Submit comment:Todd Cardy, court reporterSeptember 05, 2008 12:50pmA PERTH couple has admitted neglecting a six-year-old boy for two years including a period in which he was tied to a cot for nearly three weeks.Troy Iain Kerr, 31, and his wife Sharlene Natalie Kerr,...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Troy Iain Kerr, 31, and his wife Sharlene Natalie Kerr, 33, face possible jail terms after entering pleas of guilty to an amended charge of recklessly failing to protect the boy from harm between November 1, 2005, and November 9, last year. Both also pleaded guilty to the unlawful detention of the boy, who is not their biological child, at the couple’s Butler home between October...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
By Gerri Peev THERE was something poignant about the moment Dr Iain Kerr emerged from a meeting with his health board employers to tell supporters he was not to be sacked for supplying sleeping pills to suicidal patients.
Scotland on Sunday (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
GP Iain Kerr was last week suspended from practising medicine for six months after prescribing the tablets to an elderly woman who later took her own life.In his first interview since the hearing, the Glasgow GP told Scotland on Sunday that he would never again provide drugs in the same circumstances.But he said he would work with like-minded MSPs who are lobbying for a change in the...
