An experienced hospital consultant died from an accidental overdose after injecting himself with an anaesthetic he hoped would help him sleep, an inquest has heard.
Dr Michael Davies self-administered a fatal amount of the drug Propofol – the same drug which killed singer Michael Jackson – in a bid to counter sleeping problems in January.
The 43-year-old, an anaesthetist at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton who had travelled to Hampshire to help with an operation, was later found dead by his mother-in-law.
Parish councillor Dr Davies had two sons, aged six and seven and died just four months before the birth of his third child.
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