Do No Harm: Doctors, too, take advantage of vulnerable patients

Harold Shipman is an infamous name in medicine. He was a British General Practitioner who was convicted in the year 2000 of murdering 15 of his own patients. An inquiry suspected he may have been responsible for over 250 deaths, making him the most prolific serial killer in recorded history. He earned the unenviable title, 'Dr Death', and hanged himself in his prison cell before his sentencing.

Women are especially vulnerable to rogue doctors, they totalled 80 per cent of Shipman's victims.