News - 26/02/2016

Elvis Presley's personal doctor "Dr Nick" dead at 88

Elvis Presley's personal doctor "Dr Nick" dead at 88

According to an obituary posted on the website of Memorial Park Funeral Home (in Memphis), Elvis Presley's former personal doctor has died. The post says that 88-year-old George C. Nichopoulos died on Wednesday, February 24.

Known as "Dr. Nick," Nichopoulos was Presley's doctor for 11 years before the singer's death from heart disease on August 16, 1977. The Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners later suspended and ultimately revoked his medical license after it ruled he had over-prescribed potentially addictive drugs to 13 patients, including Presley and fellow legendary rock'n'roller Jerry Lee Lewis.

A jury in 1981 acquitted Nichopoulos of criminal charges of indiscriminately and negligently prescribing drugs to Presley. In a 2009 interview with The Commercial Appeal, Nichopoulos said, "I don't regret any of the medications I gave him. They were necessities".

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