Gagging on it?

Tony Delamothe’s editor’s choice highlighted articles by Jonathan Gornall and Jane Cassidy that show the dangers of employers gagging doctors from raising serious concerns about patient safety.1 2 3 He observed that “George Orwell would have savoured the designation of these [employing authorities] as ‘trusts’.”

The two articles show trusts behaving as “big brothers,” by silencing those who would speak the truth to protect senior …