Transcript for Wakefield Interview - Question 3: Dr David Salisbury calls the the GMC !

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Transcript for Wakefield Interview - Question 3: Dr David Salisbury

calls the the GMC !

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[Transcript.] Where dies it leave the GMC if you are not

guilty? Very good question on a very broad front. They have some

tough decisions to make. One on the level of the case itself, and

have they mis-instructed their experts, are they going to have to

retrench in a different set of charges. They have to take time to

structure those charges and get a response from their experts. Are

they going to be allowed to do that, I don't know, but it must be

becoming obvious to them now that much of the original information

they were given, was, had been, misconstrued, and basing their

charges on that information has been in error.

 

At another level they are under big pressure from the Department of

Health, and David Salisbury in particular has been calling them on a

regular basis urging them to prosecute this case more vigorously

against me, be nastier, be meaner, throw more in, and I know this

because we get sent the unused material, and so I took the

opportunity (he didn't know this, I mean you get all the telephone

conversations, all the conversation between people, all the draft

reports which is an interesting advantage to us), so I was able to

write to David Salisbury and was able to say I am now in a position

to have read the unused material from the GMC, and I note your

entreaties to them....He was furious, he contacted the GMC and said:

" I didn't know they were going to get the unused material...you never

told me, this is a disgrace! " And the wonderful thing about that is

that we get the documentation of that telephone conversation as well (laughs).

 

So, you can see they are under a great deal of political pressure to

prosecute this case and it is interesting in the public domain David

Salisbury has said we don't want this to be seen as a vendetta on

behalf of the Department of Health. So, mixed messages.

 

PART TWO. The other dilemma they have is who do they represent in the

end? Because the GMC have historically stood for the patient, the

patients rights, the patients protection from, for example, medical

malpractice. Well, who do they stand for now because we stand for the

patients. Everything we have done is in the best interests of the

children. What they are representing and prosecuting is not on

behalf of the children no parent has complained against us, but on

behalf of the Department of Health, on behalf of the new kid on the

block, 'the greater good.'

 

So here we have a body who has traditionally represented the patient,

the victim, if you like, against the medical profession or against

medical malpractice. Now they are defending the diktat of public

health against the rights of the individual.

 

So they are in a real quandary, or if they are not they should be,

about quite who they represent, because I know who I represent--the

individual patient.

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