“She might be violent.”

— John Bodkin Adams

When asked in August 1939 why he injected elderly patient Agnes Pike with Morphine while another doctor was examining her in order to give a second opinion. The patient was being heavily sedated by Adams and her relatives had become concerned.

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general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer 1899–1983

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