I think he should never be allowed to practice again. In my opinion, it was very bad judgment on his part to go through all he did and then start his shift without first resting and winding down in order to be at his best to do the job correctly. As a physician that obviously has patients live's in his hands, there is no room for error; and if he had bad judgment about starting a shift without proper rest, I certainly wouldn't trust him to make life or death decisions. I think his letter was very heartfelt, but put yourself in the place of the loved ones who lost their family member to his malpractice and bad judgment when, if not for that; he might likely still be alive. I think I would have a very difficult time trying to forgive him; and even if I did eventually, I would still think he shouldn't have another opportunity to cause another person's death and cause another family the trauma they must have suffered as a result. Even if it was accidental on his part.

Professionals don't make mistakes like that do they? Personal if he took a life by *mistake* or not he should pay the price and go to jail!

No. He said he was not "conversant" with that drug. It is his job to be "conversant" with the medication he orders given or gives himself. It is not o.k. with me. He does not get off by feeling remorseful. He didn't know what he should have known and for that there is no excuse.

It's a hard thing Suby, how this one mistake has ruined his entire career. I think he should not practice, we rely on these people to take care of us and not make mistakes. But not be seen by the court of law, i don't think he purposely did it. And taking another person's life will be on his mind for the rest of his life. Since he is a doctor of the NHS, i don't think they will prosecute him. - - - - - Suby, i know you were a vet for many years and owned your own practice, and i know your opinion is probably different from mine. Do you agree that this death is a 'life sentence' in its self?

This is certainly a nice gesture to have written that brief, but I am afraid that the case will not be solved so easily. Actually, it is not just the error of one person, it is probably the reliability of a whole system which should be questioned. I think it would be wrong to give the responsibility to Dr. Ubani alone as a scapegoat: "Four contracts for out-of-hours medical care held by a company that hired a German doctor who gave a patient a lethal overdose accidentally are under investigation by the country’s health regulator. The newly formed Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to examine services provided by the company Take Care Now after being made aware of concerns about how it works. The inquiry comes after the case of Daniel Ubani, a German doctor providing out-of-hours cover who administered ten times too much of the painkiller diamorphine accidentally to David Gray, 70, while working for a health trust in Cambridgeshire last year." "A spokesman for the CQC said that it had been alerted to other concerns about Take Care Now and would be deciding on the scope of the inquiry this week. The company has four contracts for out-of-hours cover for the National Health Service in Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Great Yarmouth and Waveney, and Worcester. Mr Gray’s son, Stuart, a GP, told The Times that he had acquired evidence of systemic problems in the way Take Care Now operated. These include an induction by the company carried out on Dr Ubani 24 hours before his visit to Mr Gray — his first shift in Britain — in which the assessor warned that he had not been given enough time to do a full appraisal of his competence. Concerns had also been raised by a primary care trust about the way the company had been using high-dose painkiller ampoules, Mr Gray’s son added. “From the documents I have seen it appears that the company should not have been operating out-of-hours services the way it was,” Dr Gray said. “There was negligence on several fronts.”" Source and further information: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6220681.ece