Dr Prashen Pillay, who accidentally prescribed 77-year old Joan Dixon a cardiac drug at 1,000 times the recommended dose, embarked on a two-year hellraising spree A disgraced doctor who accidentally killed a patient after prescribing a lethal dose of drugs then went on a two year hell-raising spree around Britain, a tribunal heard. Dr Prashen Pillay did runners from restaurants, hotels and petrol stations and was even caught urinating in front of shocked shoppers at Morrisons supermarket. Despite being suspended from practicing medicine, the 43-year-old turned up at a London hospital London falsely claiming he was qualified to carry out treatment and attempted to move a patient.Dr Prashen Pillay prescribed Joan Dixon, 77, with a lethal dose of a drugsPatient died after receiving ten times the recommended level of DigoxinPillay vowed to make it his 'life's work' never to repeat the tragic mistakeBut he went on to commit a litany of petty crimes over the next two yearsIncludes doing runners from restaurants and petrol stations without payingKicking a police cell door and urinating on floor of Morrisons supermarket
_ then changed into operating clothes, walked into the operating theatre and cannulated a patient - inserting a tube into the vein.