Southall is cleared by GMC but faces new charges

Southall is cleared of serious professional conduct.

The child protection paediatrician David Southall has been cleared of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council over actions he took in two cases between 13 and 22 years ago. A GMC fitness to practise panel found him not guilty of serious misconduct in keeping special case files separate from hospital medical records on two children without sufficient signposting, and sendi...

Southall: the GMC responds.

Former India medical council president is cleared of six of seven corruption charges.

Ketan Desai, the former president of the Medical Council of India who was charged by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation with several cases of corruption in 2010, has been exonerated in all but one of the cases. On 21 September a Lucknow special court dropped charges that Desai, in collusion with other members of the council, had granted permission for Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Med...

Tryptase is not cleared by the kidneys into the urine.

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic kidney disease have been reported to have increased concentrations of blood tryptase. Detection of tryptase in the urine of healthy subjects has been reported. OBJECTIVE The objective is to determine whether tryptase is indeed cleared by the kidneys. METHODS Blood and urine collections were performed in healthy and systemic mastocytosis subjects. Total and m...

GMC guidance on confidentiality: is it ethical?

The recent GMC guidance on confidentiality [1], especially the supplementary guidance [2], has caused much consternation amongst occupational physicians. The Faculty and Society of Occupational Medicine have issued a joint statement to members [3], and a GMC representative responded on the same day [4]. However, the 6 OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE