Elvis Presley's' Dr. Nick (88) deceased

- George Nichopoulos, known as 'Dr. Nick ', the personal physician of Elvis Presley, is deceased at the age of 88. Which reported a funeral home in Memphis on Friday.

'Dr. Nick 'produced in the last decade of the life of the singer thousands of doses of prescription drugs to Presley. It is not known which Nichopoulos died.

A medical disciplinary board in Tennessee suspended Nichopoulos and finally pulled his medical license because it would have required too many potentially addictive substances in thirteen patients. Besides Presley He also had fellow singer Jerry Lee Lewis among his patients.

A jury acquitted him in 1981 of criminal charges and prescribe the arbitrary and careless of drugs to Presley.

In an interview in 2009 Nichopoulos said: I do not regret the medication I prescribed for him. They were necessary. Quot;