A widow has told for the first time how her husband died after being slowly “poisoned” when the high-profile private GP overseeing his care failed to ensure that a powerful drug his patient was taking was not harming him. Barbara Vavalidis is suing Dr Peter Wheeler, a society doctor in London who was Princess Diana’s personal physician, over the death of her husband, Stefanos, from liver failure in 2016. “I would have thought that the person using a private GP practice thinks that it’s at least as safe as the NHS, if not safer. That shows that private medical care is not necessarily as safe as that from NHS GPs, they say. The practice has since installed the software, which is standard in NHS GP surgeries.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2017 22:52 UTC