Reply #35: YOU failed to comprehend post #19. [View All]

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http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/05/hit-and-run-the-uk-gmc-.html
By John Stone
May 24, 2010
"I do not feel tremendously eloquent after sitting through the morning’s proceedings at the UK’s General Medical Council. I am at least heartily relieved that Simon Murch’s ordeal is over – a great and caring man, and I believe the treatment of John Walker-Smith, if not Andrew Wakefield, will have immediate repercussions within the profession.

Walker-Smith, with Alan Walker of Harvard Medical School is widely regarded as the founder of paediatric gastroenterology as an independent field, and the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition recently made its feelings known by awarding Prof Walker-Smith its first distinguished service medal, on the commendation of Prof Walker – Prof Walker-Smith was informed of this in March and he will receive the medal at a ceremony in June.

We can only wonder at the gang of time-servers and bureaucrats who saw fit to call into question his clinical judgement at more than a decade distant, without talking the patients’ parents, looking at the children or investigating their subsequent medical history..."



DID YOU CATCH THAT? Dr. Wakefield, Dr. Murch and Dr. Walker-Smith wrote a joint paper. All were (mis)judged guilty of 'callous disregard.' Ultimately, Wakefield and Walker-Smith lost their UK licenses.

HOWEVER, Walker-Smith is "the founder of pediatric gastroenterology as an independent field," along with Dr. Alan Walker of Harvard Medical School, and the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition decided in March 2010 to award Professor Walker-Smith its first distinguished service medal on the recommendation of Harvard Medical School professor, Alan Walker (incidentally, the co-founder of the specialty of pediatric gastroenterology as an independent field), to be presented in June.


HOW'S THAT GRAB YOU? Respected by his peers and to be honored next month? I'd reconsider my views, if I were you.