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Alternative allergy and the General Medical Council.

In July 1992 Dr Keith Mumby, a clinical ecologist, appeared before the professional conduct committee of the General Medical Council on five charges to do with his practice of clinical ecology. He was found guilty of two of the charges--touting for publicity and failing to give a patient adequate medical attention--and admonished. The GMC failed, however, to address the issue of the nature of M...

Report of the Education-Committee of the General Medical Council

" A grand opportunity missed," is the depressing verdict which a careful perusal of the above begets. After 1892 the duration of medical study is to be five years. If these five }?ears had been devoted to genuine medical study, we should have had nothing but congratulations to offer; but as the first of these five years is devoted to studies which are not medical, and as the last year is to be ...

Erasures and suspensions from the General Medical Council (U.K.).

The patterns of erasure and suspension in the UK (GMC) have recently been analysed 1 . The findings are of interest to all practising doctors. It would appear that certain groups of doctors are more likely to be subject to the Council’s scrutiny than others. A total of 790 doctors (0.35%) are either erased or suspended. In terms of gender 86% are men and 14% are women, men are 4 times more li...

Medically qualified naturopaths and the General Medical Council.

Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) and Joseph Stenson Hooker (1853-1946) both obtained the licentiateship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879 and were duly entered on the Medical Register, Hooker having qualified LSA two years previously. In their practice of medicine both came to favour "natural healing" and both came into conflict with the medical establishment. In 1892 A...