Doctor Gerry in Glasgow: when and why did he move south?

Smokeandmirrors wrote:I looked into this. What I understand is that it is low residue and metabolises quickly. I looked into a while ago but various googling for drug residue in post mortem cases etc throws up a few things. Nothing as I recall definitive about this drug, I guess most of the evidence comes from medications commonly used in suicides etc. But, I do remember that there has to generally be long term use of a medication for it to leaves trace in bones.

However if someone had an underlying heart issue, terfenadine being linked to arrhythmia, I speculate that 1 single tablet could trigger off something. Also, terfenadine's lethal aspect is enhanced by grapefruit juice, and the combination is very dangerous. Specifically grapefruit juice.

Châtelaine wrote:What I wanted to emphasize with my earlier post today, is that doctors have a different perception of medication. The major part of them tend to be very easy going with them. They know about the possible dangers, but calculate those lower risks as compared to the statistically higher possible "comfort, result, cure" ...

I may have mentioned here before, that my first ex-future-father-law-to-be [yes, I didn't marry his son in the end] was a GP. When his new live-in girlfriend [who was the girlfriend of his youngest son, who then tried to commit suicide] came down with an appendicitis, he kept her on morphine for days to have the time to get her medical insurance sorted out, so that her hospitalisation and surgery would be paid for ...

So yes, IMO, it is very well possible that some substance has been used to keep the children asleep, whilst they went out for dinner. IMO, IMO ...

Châtelaine wrote:The recreational ones? I think [as in "IMO"] that's where another well-known character comes into the picture.

Châtelaine wrote:It is late, Nina. Should I look for stats on drug-abuse by doctors ... ? There's so much documentation about their drink & drug abuse that it's scaring ... And, I have to add, somehow understandable with the pressure they live under, however, not completely excusable. Especially not in case of fatalities.
Note: I am NOT applying this to seven of them here under discussion, but I am not excluding them either.

Portia wrote:

jd wrote:gerry mccann was in the news in 2000 re drugs in sport/athletics

Dr Gerry McCann, a lecturer in sports medicine at the Centre for Exercise Science and Medicine at Glasgow University, said the list of banned substances was so comprehensive that it was highly unlikely that an athlete could take a legal substance, but register a positive result in a doping test.

However, he said there were two areas that could catch athletes out.

Some cold and cough remedies include banned stimulants such as ephedrin and pseudo-ephedrin.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2000/drugs_in_sport/859465.stm

Sorry, forget the name of the (histamine) substance we discussed 2-3 weeks ago.

As GM studied banned substances, even lecturing in them, and as he therefor clearly was an expert on banned substances:
then how come he feigns the (anti?-)histamine accompanying the McCs on their week long holiday was current in 2007, instead of having been banned many years before, as causing cardiorythms as they were proven to do?

Again, why did they take this letal and scrapped stuff on this holiday?

And: did the McCs administer it to their children?

• terfenadine is only available in the UK on a named-patient basis through specialist importers. There are no longer any licensed preparations containing terfenadine available in the UK (November 2005)  "
  

Rufus T wrote:
Sorry to nit pick, but terfenadine is not banned in the UK, it was removed from sale and became available by prescription only. Not sure if that makes a difference.

PeterMac wrote:

Rufus T wrote:
Sorry to nit pick, but terfenadine is not banned in the UK, it was removed from sale and became available by prescription only. Not sure if that makes a difference.

WIKI
Terfenadine-containing drugs were subsequently removed from the Canadian market in 1999,[5] and are no longer available for prescription in the UK.[6]

http://www.gpnotebook.com/simplepage.cfm?ID=-1603600346
Notes:
terfenadine is only available in the UK on a named-patient basis through specialist importers. There are no longer any licensed preparations containing terfenadine available in the UK (November 2005)
Reference:

Committee on Safety of Medicines (21/4/1997). Terfenadine: proposed change to prescription use, letter from Professor M D Rawlins.
Current Issues in Pharmacovigilance (1997), 23, 9.

In other words you can't get hold of it.  So why did Gerry have it.

missbeetle wrote:Gerry first started coming to Leicester in order to participate in cardiology conferences held at Glenfield Hospital. It was usual for us to fetch him at the airport and take him to the conference and later return him to the airport. It is for this reason the family serves and we were always present when Kate or Gerry needed us. After selling our home in Glasgow, Kate rented a room in The Limes in Rothley and Gerry stayed at the hospital' I think that he made circuits between Glenfield Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Boston Hospitals. They married in 1998. They arranged to buy a home in Queniborough. I remember that Kate was anxious to have children and I also remember the day she informed us she was pregnant with Madeleine.

(snipped from Janet Kennedy's rogatory interview)

It sounds to me like the McCanns lived in a Glaswegian property owned by the Kennedys.