Let's Work Together: A shocking idea for doctors - Here’s a novel idea. The General Medical Council, which regulates doctors in the UK, has come up with new practice guidelines that recommend for the...

Unelected and out of control - And so the witchhunt continues. Last month, as we detailed in Second Opinion, the General Medical Council banned Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, the Surre...

A better brand of snake oil - Recently, a well known allergist had his hands slapped by the General Medical Council for breaking its rules against advertising. The British Medical...

Doctors soon to need a licence to prescribe - Health minister John Hutton has outlined plans for licensing UK doctors to make sure they’re up to scratch. The regulatory points raised in his consul...

The scandal of thyroid care - Two recent stories in the newspapers have underscored the scandal of thyroid treatment today. This occurred not long after the decision by the UK's Ge...

Gmc: rough justice and a kangaroo court - Doris Jones’ article (WDDTY, vol 12 no 5) most succinctly put the position I and my patients found ourselves in as the result of the kangaroo-court me...

A disease of doctors - When we think of pneumonia, we see it as a complicated and dangerous infection caused by bugs ‘in the air’. But there are a number of disparate, but c...

Aids (actually, it’s doctors, stupid) - Since 1990, in the very first volume of What Doctors Don’t Tell You, we’ve shared with our readers our growing suspicion that AIDS was more than simpl...