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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Chris Slater

Doctor fights back tears after GP under ‘unbearable pressure’ takes her own life

A Greater Manchester GP fought back tears on national television as she detailed the strain doctors were currently under. It follows comments from the husband of a GP who took her own life blaming her death on the “unbearable pressure” of the job.

The body of mum-of-two Dr Gail Milligan was discovered in woodland in Bracknell in Berkshire on Thursday, July, 28, 24 hours after she was reported missing from home.

Her husband Christopher Milligan posted an emotional tribute to his "wonderful, beautiful, funny and absolutely bananas wife, mother and doctor" in which he also described the huge workload she faced and in which he wanted to raise awareness of the pressures doctors are under reports Berkshire Live.

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