KEVORKIAN BRINGS BODIES TO HOSPITAL.

Byline: Associated Press 

Dr. Jack Kevorkian stepped up his campaign for doctor-assisted suicide Thursday, helping a woman with multiple sclerosis kill herself and then bringing the body of a man to the same hospital eight hours later.

The bodies were the third and fourth Kevorkian has delivered to the hospital in eight days. Before the last body, Kevorkian had acknowledged helping 37 people die, nine since his most recent acquittal in May. Kevorkian attorney Geoffrey Fieger said he did not know anything about the body that Dr. Robert Aranosian, director of the trauma center at the Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital, said Kevorkian took to the hospital about 9:10 p.m.

Aranosian said the man appeared to be in his 60s.

Earlier Thursday at the same hospital, he brought in the body of Patricia Smith, a 40-year-old nurse from Lee's Summit, Mo., who suffered from ``rapidly progressing multiple sclerosis,'' said Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger.

Her husband, corrections worker David Smith, and her father, James Poland, also were with her when she died, Fieger said.

Their deaths came two days after the lethal injection of Louise Siebens, 76, of McKinney, Texas, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease.