Virtual Clinical Ethics Committee, case 6: fear of investigation affects patient care (the Shipman effect on the administration of opiates in the community).

The article discusses the impact of fear's investigation in patients health care in Great Britain in December 2006. The author states that due to Shipman murdered victims under guise of medical care and provoked against the medical profession as a whole, they could be under suspicion. He inferred that the investigations are obviously very stressful for those being investigated.