The Return of Dr. Southall (UK) Go figure!!

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Makes me think the GMC is as wacky as the FDA/CDC/Health Canada at

times. They'll persecute the likes of Jayne Donegan, Blakemore

Brown, and Wakefield, but they let this bloke practice again!

Something is very wrong with this picture!:

From The Times

September 22, 2008

Southall, specialist in Sally case, given another chance

Southall

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A paediatrician found guilty of serious professional misconduct after

accusing a father of murdering his two baby sons has been allowed to

return to child protection work.

Southall made the claim having watched a television programme

about the case of Sally , a solicitor who was convicted of

murdering her children and jailed in 1999.

The programme was broadcast in April 2000 and featured an interview

with Mrs 's husband, Steve. After watching it Dr Southall

claimed that it was " beyond reasonable doubt " that Mr had

killed the babies. The consultant was subsequently banned from child

protection work by the General Medical Council (GMC).

Mrs was cleared by the Court of Appeal and released from prison

in January 2003. She never recovered from the trauma and died of

natural causes last March, aged 42.

The GMC has since found Dr Southall, 60, guilty of serious

professional misconduct in another, separate case in which he was

said to have accused a grieving mother of murdering her ten-year-old

son. Yesterday the council revoked the earlier restrictions on his

practice with immediate effect.

Speaking after the hearing, Dr Southall said: " I would like to say

how pleased I am by the General Medical Council's decision today. I

would like to thank my paediatric colleagues, especially those who

came to give evidence on my behalf. "

Reid, chairman of the GMC's fitness-to-practise panel, said

the doctor had expressed regret and remorse for his actions and

demonstrated " considerable insight " into his failings.

Dr Southall told the panel last month that he still thought that he

had been correct in raising the alarm over Mr , but admitted

that the language he had used in the accusation had been injudicious.

He believed that Mr had tried to suffocate his eldest son,

, in a London hotel room in 1996. He came to that

conclusion after hearing, in an interview on the Channel 4 Dispatches

programme, Mr describe how the child had suffered a nose bleed

and breathing difficulties. He wrote a report on the s after

talking to social workers and police officers involved in the case.

He said that he owed an apology to the late Mrs for his

assumption that if her husband had smothered , who was 11

weeks old, he must also have killed their second son, Harry, who died

13 months later aged 8 weeks. Mr was exonerated.

Dr Southall maintained that the incident in the hotel room " has not

been explained by the passage of time " .

The GMC recommended that Dr Southall be struck off the medical

register after finding him guilty of misconduct for a second time in

December. But the High Court overturned an immediate suspension from

work pending the outcome of an appeal that will be heard at the High

Court in January.

In February last year the Government announced that a review would be

held into a number of criminal cases in which Dr Southall had given

evidence for the prosecution after allegations that he had

inappropriately kept up to 4,450 personal case files on child patients.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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