English paediatrician to be reinstated

doi:10.1136/bmj.322.7294.1085/a

BMJ 2001;322:1085 ( 5 May )

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English paediatrician to be reinstated

Annabel Ferriman BMJ

One of the doctors who was suspended from work at North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke on Trent, because of complaints by parents over the diagnosis of child abuse, is to be reinstated, it was announced last week.

Dr Martin Samuels, a consultant paediatrician, who was suspended in November 1999, because of complaints by parents of harassment and victimisation, has been cleared of "professional misconduct or incompetence" by a hospital inquiry.

Dr Samuels�s colleague Professor David Southall, who was suspended at the same time, remains suspended because the allegations against him are more complicated. The trust said that the additional time taken to resolve Professor Southall�s case "reflects only a greater volume of work that needs to be undertaken in his case and is not indicative of any likely outcome."

Both doctors were also the subject of a separate investigation into a research trial involving the . . . [Full text of this article]

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