@drcmday watched GMC v Bawa-Garba in High Court and has written a blog about the way the GMC chose to argue the case against a junior doctor convicted of manslaughter for a medical error in the context of multiple system failures & errors from other staff
http://54000doctors.org/blogs/whose-interests-are-the-gmc-really-trying-to-serve-in-the-bawa-garba-case.html …
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Sorry Anne, it's only just dawned on me that you're referring to the Dr Freda Mulhem case. Just a 12 month suspension by GMC there. Why is that manslaughter conviction any less damaging to public confidence than
#BawaGarba, one wonders? -
15 years ago the landscape was much less adversarial, legalistic, and dare I say blaming Recently the default has become that the doctor is at fault until proven otherwise. Perhaps .
@jeremy_hunt as Our Dear Leader for most of that time might know why this change has occurred -
You could argue that I'm a part of that 1st paragraph shift. Though not by choice, I promise you. But the 2nd paragraph would not be in keeping with my experience I'm afraid. On the contrary in fact. Whatever's changed, I haven't felt it yet.
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I’ve been around long enough to qualify as a cynical old mare. I imagine a black Muslim female dr who failed in her duty to save a cute white child is doomed in the ‘court of public opinion’. Which the GMC is obliged to take account of, under the euphemism ‘public confidence’
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That would almost smack of deferring to mob rule. I sincerely hope there's something more lawfully robust than just appeasing a crowd behind such cases. Especially one as unpleasant as that might imply.
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Doubt there’s any robust legal definition of what “Maintaining Public Confidence” actually is, or should involve.
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Well whatever definition GMC chose to work by, you'd at least like to think they would be applying it uniformly. This suggests they haven't done that.
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