RE: Professor Sir Roy Meadow struck off medical register

["Lisa fontes" <lfontes@xxxxxxx>]

I looked up this information and found a website from The Guardian that
discussed this and the quashing of shaken baby verdicts in the UK. It
does sound like part of a backlash.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/0,7368,350542,00.html
What's going on in the UK? Is it similar in other countries?
Lisa Fontes, Ph.D.

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Subject: Professor Sir Roy Meadow struck off medical register

I am wondering what reactions there might be from this list's members to

the news of Professor
Sir Roy Meadow being struck off the medical register by the General 
Medical Council and what
you think the implications might be for child protection, expert 
testimony in court and how the
syndrome (he called it Meadow's Syndrome as well as Munchausen's 
Syndrome by Proxy) he
is perhaps best known for, should now be handled.

He was of course more recently also known for Meadow's Law, relating to 
multiple unascertained deaths of
infants in a family, sometims called Cot Death, SIDS or SUDI. He did not

originate the reasoning in this of course
as I'm sure US followers will know.

So far there's been little reaction from the States, Canada, Australia 
or New Zealand
(to Meadow being struck off), where the label has been more frequently 
used than elsewhere
in the world other than the UK.

Reactions here  in the UK, as searches on Google News will tell, you 
have been pretty fierce with paediatricians
and the Lancet warning of dire outcomes.

Not all professionals go along with this, some saying it's time experts 
followed the rules of court
and didn't step outside their specialities (which is what Meadow was 
found to have done).

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