In Scotland without intent to do harm there wouldn’t be a prosecution for healthcare staff. There are long lists of medics who have been criminally convicted for their wilful & reckless behaviour. The medical community stands behind Dr BG for a reason
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You can apply anything to anyone but wrong to send junior doctors to prison when there are many systems failures. If not system will never learn, we won't have good doctors left and many patients will suffer and I will emigrate gladly
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I've seen nothing to suggest BG spent a single night in prison. Have you? But it's not wrong to send grossly negligent people whose actions kill another to prison. No matter who they are. Doing so does not prelude us from improving the systems too. Mutually exclusive goals for me
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Suspended prison sentence is enough for a good doctors life to be ruined and injustice to thrive and junior doctors to be frightened and scared and system leaders to escape.
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From the U.S. perspective, it is shocking to see a system where overwhelmed physicians and nurses with honorable intentions who have made an honest mistake are held criminally liable and incarcerated. It really makes one wonder why anyone in the U.K. goes into medical work. 1/2
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Patients don't seek doctors for the doctors' honorable intentions or honesty. That's assumed.
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We are not discussing why people seek doctors, we are discussing the meaning of criminal negligence and why a physician was convicted of a crime. Seems the jails would be very full if anyone who made a mistake at work could be imprisoned. Criminality assumes malicious intent.
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In English Law (not in wise sensible Scotland) gross negligence manslaughter does not require intent to harm. So any iatrogenic harm can become a crime.
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I still don't understand this, tbh. I thought the whole point of any manslaughter charge was to recognise the crime of causing another's death without intent. If there's intent then it's plain murder, surely?
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I agree! No problem, it is Saturday. You do well to this issue, giving balance. I am frustrated with the number of hcp commenting against a court ruling. I wrote 1 comment a week ago & it caused a tsunami of notifications blaming everyone but BG & especially jack mother.
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Never apologise for doing a good job or for telling the truth. Always apologise if you make a mistake or hurt others feelings
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