The British Medical Association yesterday defended the use of a controversial technique to help terminally ill patients die after a grieving son called for a police investigation into the treatment of his mother at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh.
Peter Tulloch says his 83-year-old mother Jean was put on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) when she was at the hospital. Under LCP, medical staff who judge that a patient is close to death withdraw food and water while the patient is sedated.
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