New GMC guidance takes a major, ethically flawed, backward step
BMJPublished 18 June 2013
Ian Roberts, Bill Chaudhry, Iain Chalmers
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Doctors and patients have good reason not to be enamoured with new General Medical Council guidance on working with colleagues and patients.
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Doctors and patients have good reason not to be enamoured with new General Medical Council (GMC) guidance.1 Whereas the 2006 edition of Good Medical Practice stated that doctors “must work with colleagues and patients . . . to help resolve uncertainties about the effects of treatments” (para 14f),2 this principle and the relevant paragraph have …
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