RIGHT TO KILL.
Doctor Confesses Murder of '39
- Patients. " v . FATAL ERROR OVER HIS WIFE. BERLlN,'November 1. An eminent practitioner, Dr. Bukov, committed suicide by taking poison. Before doing so he wrote to the Public Prosecutor, confessing Lhat hehad painlessly poisoned 39' patients, • all'suffering from incurable diseases. They included' his wife,, whom he had thought was suffering from cancer. When he conducted a post-mortem examination, however, he found to his horror thai he had wrongly diagnosed her complaint, which he could have cured. ' v". ;
Filled with . remorse the, doctor said lie had decided to die the same death he had, given his wife. He wr.ota a letter warning physician's not to abrogate the functions of Providence.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 259, 2 November 1931, Page 7
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