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Thomas Lodwig
Thomas Lodwig was an English doctor, accused of murdering a patient with terminal cancer in 1990. He was acquitted after the prosecution offered no evidence at his trial.〔(''Killing the Willing ... And Others! Legal Aspects of Euthanasia and Related Topics'', Greg Smith )〕〔(Euthanasia )〕
==Case history==
Lodwig was senior house officer at Battle Hospital, Reading. A 48-year-old patient with terminal pancreatic cancer〔(Margaret Otlowski, ''Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law'', Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 177 )〕 had been receiving regular and increasing doses of heroin for pain relief. Morphine was also administered. By 29 September 1988, the patient was in continuous uncontrollable pain, and was suffering fits. His family, expecting him to die, asked Lodwig to do something to relieve his pain. Lodwig instructed a nurse to bring him some potassium chloride and lignocaine. When the nurse asked why, he said, "I'm sending someone out there". He then "drew a finger across his throat and pointed in the air" (an act his counsel later claimed was said as a joke). A few minutes later the patient died. The nurses on the ward became suspicious and the next day the hospital administration called the police.〔
Lodwig did not record in his notes the use of the potassium chloride or lignocaine, or the exact time of death.
A postmortem established that the patient also had significant narrowing of the coronary arteries.〔
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