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Re: Professor Sir Roy Meadow struck off medical register
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We've had the finding of the GMC hearing, as reported, it's on the GMC
main web site.<br>
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I'll dig out a URL tomorrow.<br>
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There has been a round of reaction from medical professionals, much
reported here.<br>
<br>
There will undoubtedly be a round of contrary opinions, and in due
course there could<br>
be a public inquiry or Royal Commission along the lines of the
Cleveland Inquiry.<br>
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It's a hugely complex and emotion rousing field. I was sitting on the
public bench <br>
in an appeal court hearing in London only today where the three appeal
judges would<br>
only permit reference to Meadow having been struck off for wrongly
introducing statistics<br>
and they would not allow any criticism of the rest of his work.<br>
<br>
Some have already argued that when an eminent expert slips in one
respect then maybe <br>
other parts of his work should also be examined. He did after all shred
(or had shredded) all his paperwork<br>
and data from his research and case studies so they could not be
independently reviewed<br>
to validate the opinions expressed in court.<br>
<br>
The GMC cannot now hear the cases being prepared which would have meant
looking<br>
at the rest of his research and diagnostic procedures in different
kinds of territory.<br>
<br>
So it's not just the doctors who are objecting to him being struck off,
it's other complainants<br>
as well who were lining up cases of professional misconduct who wanted
the full spread<br>
re-examined. Won't happen now unless perhaps in civil actions or maybe
if a research <br>
review board looks at it.<br>
<br>
More on this later as matters progress.<br>
<br>
Brian Morgan<br>
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Lisa fontes wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/0,7368,350542,00.html";>http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/0,7368,350542,00.html</a>
What's going on in the UK? Is it similar in other countries?
Lisa Fontes, Ph.D.
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Brian Morgan
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:34 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
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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