A DOCTOR killed herself because she was tormented by fears that she could not do enough for her patients, her husband said today.
Dedicated GP Dawn Harris, 38, was found hanged at her home in Holcombe Brook, Bury, by her husband Michael Churchill.
Mr Churchill said the stress of being a doctor had become too much for his wife, who worked at Lever Chambers medical practice in Bolton.
Mr Churchill, 38, said: "She was a perfectionist.
"She had become depressed because of the stress of the job she longed to do, but also because she couldn't do more to help heal people. Dawn judged everything she did too highly. She cared for everyone and loved her job."
Dr Harris read medicine at St Andrew's University in Scotland before moving to Manchester University, where she graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery.
It was there she met her husband and they married in 1992 and moved to Summerseat.
Enthusiastic
Dr Harris worked as a junior doctor at Bury and Fairfield General Hospitals before working at Minden medical centre in Bury with doctors Derek and Patricia Fletcher until 1996.
Dr Patricia Fletcher said: "Dawn was enthusiastic, hard working, energetic and attractive.
"When she left we missed her vibrance, her laughter and her clinical competence.
"Her death is a great loss to general practice and her patients, but an even greater loss to her husband and family."
Dr Harris left the Minden practice for the Lever Chambers practice, where she worked until her death.
A Lever Chambers spokesman said: "We are all shocked and deeply saddened by this tragic loss.
"Dr Harris was an extremely capable and dedicated family doctor, popular with colleagues and patients.
"She will be greatly missed by everyone at the surgery."
Dr Harris had a keen interest in motor racing and exotic animals and she and her husband were due to go on safari in Africa for a fourth time in November.
Her body was discovered on Saturday night. An inquest will be held.