Published 13 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2068
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Southall verdict

GMC has no clothes

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The General Medical Council has obviously realised the damage it has done to the child protection system, and that is why it has lifted the restrictions on Professor Southall.¹ Andrew Reid from the GMC isn’t fooling anyone with his comments about Southall having "learnt" from the GMC proceedings.

We have all "learnt" that the GMC is a spineless poodle that was prepared to make a scapegoat of honest doctors in order to curry favour with the media and the government. Child protection has been damaged for decades, along with professional self regulation, but that’s the price the GMC has paid to avoid abolition.

But the GMC has completely lost the respect of ordinary doctors. If it wants to regain that respect it would help if it either said sorry—or at least kept silent.

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¹ Bridge Street Surgery, Brigg, North Lincolnshire DN20 8NT

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Competing interests: None declared.

1. Dyer C. Southall is allowed to return to child protection work. BMJ 2008;337:a1811. (24 September.)[Free Full Text]

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