Re: Will send this to Dr Skinner

[Guest guest]

You may be aware already but Dr. Wakefield has started legal action in the

States with regard to what has happened to him. Hopefully this time justice will

be done but we'll see.

Janet

--- In thyroid treatment , " Sheila " <sheila@...> > Professor

- has taken his case against

> the General Medical Council to the High Court'.

> The decision to strike off an eminent doctor over the MMR jab controversy

> has been defended at the High Court as " just and fair - not wrong " . The

> General Medical Council (GMC) admitted to a judge that " inadequate reasons "

> may have been given by a disciplinary panel that found Professor

> - guilty of serious professional misconduct. Those reasons

> related to conflicts over expert evidence. Professor - is asking

> Mr Justice Mitting at London's High Court to rule that he was denied a fair

> hearing. On the fourth day of his challenge, the judge said that the case

> had been " complex and difficult from the start - it greatly troubles me " .

> The professor is being supported by the parents of many children with autism

> and bowel disease seen by him at the Royal Free Hospital, north London, up

> to his retirement in 2001. They say one consequence of the GMC's decision is

> that families now face serious difficulties in f inding NHS treatment for

> autistic children with bowel disease. In May 2010, Prof - lost

> his license to practice along with Dr Wakefield, the doctor who

> triggered a global scare about the MMR vaccine. QC, appearing

> for the professor, told the High Court the disciplinary findings were

> seriously flawed and must be quashed. He said investigations, including

> lumbar punctures and colonoscopies, were carried out because they were

> clinically indicated and were necessary for the purposes of diagnosis and

> treatment - not for a research project.