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Harold Shipman was a British middle-aged family doctor turned a serial killer, and he is believed to have killed at least 236 patients over a twenty-four year period (Saferstein, 2015). The glaring question is how does a medical doctor betray the needs of patients, and more importantly, how does he elude suspicion for nearly two and half decades. Let us examine the key facts and circumstances surrounding Dr. Harold Shipman, also dubbed Dr. Death, and determine why he was to kill undetected for so many years beginning with Dr. Shipman’s teenage years. Some speculate the death of Dr. Shipman’s mother during his early teenage years directly impacted the development for he desire to exercise power over life or death (BBC News, 2001). Particularly

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