3. King George V’s Doctor Ended His Life Faster To Make Newspaper Headlines The Next Day
As if the title didn’t already make you realize how horrible this doctor was, we’ll remind you. As he lay dying in 1915 from what was probably the result of years of smoking and injuries sustained in WWI, his last words were “God damn you,” directed at his nurse who gave him a sedative. After this incident, his doctor Lord Dawson of Penn injected him with a lethal dose of morphine and cocaine. He claims he did this to prevent the suffering of the king’s family and to preserve the king’s dignity. However, he then went on to report he also did it so that his death at 11:55 p.m could be reported in the next day’s edition of The Times.
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