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GP who advised Shipman Inquiry is now pro-assisted dying

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Dr Aneez Esmail was medical adviser to the inquiry into serial-killing GP Harold Shipman .

He had been opposed to assisted dying until an experience with a terminally ill cancer patient six years ago .

Dr Esmail said an assisted death should be the choice of patients not doctors.

He has written to MPs urging them to support new assisted dying laws.

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English

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