GMC accused of prejudicing doctors' defence

Profile of the GMC: Overseas doctors: diminishing controversy.

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GMC clears doctors who signed cremation forms for Shipman.

BMJ VOLUME 331 16 JULY 2005 bmj.com Four GPs who signed the cremation forms of patients murdered by serial killer Harold Shipman have been cleared of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council. Doctors Jeremy Dirckze, Stephen Farrar, Alastair MacGillivray, and Susan Booth, who all worked close to Dr Shipman’s surgery in Hyde, Greater Manchester, between them signed 214 crema...

Reducing Bias without Prejudicing Sign

Jackknife and bootstrap bias corrections are based on a diierencing argument which does not necessarily respect the sign of the true parameter value. Depending on sampling variability they can over-correct, producing a nal estimator that is negative when one knows on physical grounds that it should be positive. To overcome this problem we suggest a simple, alternative bootstrap approach, based ...

Indocyanine green accused.

T he concept of retinal vital staining is not new. There has however been renewed interest in the subject since indocyanine green (ICG) was introduced as a vital stain to highlight the internal limiting membrane (ILM) during macular surgery. ICG’s well known role in cardiac and choroidal angiography exploits its properties as a fluorophore, but its role as a macular vital stain relies on its pr...

Southall: the GMC responds.