Having asked out loud whether anyone could explain a couple of odd FtP decisions, I got this from Nathan Emmerich, offering sociological pop at an answer… Iain wondered if anyone could explain the morality that underlies a couple of recent Fitness to Practise decisions made by the GMC. Well, more accurately he wondered if anyone […]
Month: July 2013
Fitness to Practise Revisited
***UPDATE: Important codicil at the end*** Back in March, I posted something about what I took to be a slightly odd Fitness to Practise decision by the GMC in respect of one Mohammed Al-Byati. Via the BMJ, here’s another case that seems a bit strange: A doctor who abducted her six year old daughter from […]
Not in any Way Topical.
I know, I know. I keep banging on about the irrelevance of genetics when it comes to families – about why parenthood isn’t a genetic thing. But, actually, now I think about it – Duchess of Cambridge blah blah baby blah… I wonder what, if any, constitutional implications there’d be if the heir to the […]
News from Wisconsin: It’s not OK if your Child Dies, even if you’re Praying
(Note: I wrote this a couple of weeks ago, but didn’t actually post it for some reason. I’ve no idea why it’s taken me so long. But it’s here now…) Via Facebook a couple of weeks ago, I came across this story, about a couple whose conviction over the death of their child has been upheld: A […]
Book Review: Kevin Yuill, “Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization”
Basingstoke/ New York: Plagrave Macmillan, 2013; 188+xx pp Can there be anything new to say on the subject of assisted death of one form or another? One acquaintance of mine has suggested that there ought to be a five-year moratorium on papers about it, on the grounds that there almost certainly isn’t. At the very […]