Doctors First, the Patients Second; Judge Lambasts Attitude of Watchdog

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HAROLD Shipman would probably have got away with murder as long as he did even if the General Medical Council had handled his case as it ought to have done, the judge conducting the inquiry into his catalogue of murders admitted yesterday.

But that did not stop Dame Janet Smith from administering what one patients' campaigner described as a "well-deserved kicking" to the professional watchdog, which she accused of putting doctors' interests before those of patients.

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Doctors First, the Patients Second; Judge Lambasts Attitude of Watchdog

Dame Janet, a High Court judge, also claimed - in the fifth report to emanate from her investigation - that the latest reforms introduced by the GMC are fl...

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