Roy Meadow: the GMC's shame

[摘要] At the beginning of July, Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, argued trenchantly that the retired paediatrician Professor Sir Roy Meadow, then facing charges of serious professional misconduct before the General Medical Council, ‘should not be found guilty’.1 Dr Horton further insisted that ‘his referral to the GMC should never have taken place’. Yet by the end of the month, Professor Meadow had been found guilty and was struck off the medical register. I share Horton's concern that Meadow has become a scapegoat for a series of high-profile failures of the criminal justice system.2-4

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