- Jack Gilliat, consultant physician1
- 1London E15 3HQ
- gilliatj{at}doctors.org.uk
The fluidity and ubiquitousness of the internet and mass media can result in a doctor’s reputation being savaged by misguided or malicious patients’ comments published in the public arena. The General Medical Council’s recently enacted supplementary guidance on responding to criticism in the press is deeply worrying.1 2
It specifically muzzles a doctor from …
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