Deadly legacy of GMC’s Southall hearings fiasco

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Leonard Williams, retired paediatrician1

¹Doncaster and Bassetlaw NHS trust, Doncaster, UK

williams{at}doctors.org.uk

Professor David Southall must have been investigated more than any other doctor.1 He has appeared before the General Medical Council on five separate charges, and has been investigated by the police, his trust, and his strategic health authority. He has been cleared at every stage. He has been compared to Dr Mengele in parliament and vilified by the media, …