The General Medical Council and the future of revalidation:Profession needs to debate regulator's role

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Olusola O A Oni, consultant orthopaedic surgeon (ooni141400@aol.com)

Anstey LE7 7TH

EDITOR—Esmail insinuates that the public has lost confidence in the medical profession.1 This is not true. The public puts doctors at the top of the professional tree in poll after poll. The elites of medicine have lost their nerve, and that is the problem. Esmail proposes that doctors are afraid of revalidation. We are not. What we, and our patients, do …