The Dark Side of Medicine - El Lado Oscuro de la Medicina | Fernando Gordillo | TEDxQuito In addition, a doctor manager was found guilty of failing to stop the operations after he had been alerted to the high mortality. This case has sent nothing short of...
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The Dark Side of Medicine - El Lado Oscuro de la Medicina | Fernando Gordillo | TEDxQuito In addition, a doctor manager was found guilty of failing to stop the operations after he had been alerted to the high mortality. This case has sent nothing short of an earthquake through British medicine, and the reverberations are likely to be felt for years. Many of the pieces in this issue begin to explore the implications, and—by coincidence—we also have a cluster of articles on research misconduct timed to coincide with the publication of the first annual report of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (pp 1686, 1695, 1726). The issue is thus very much concerned with the dark side of medicine. Tom Treasure, a cardiothoracic surgeon, and Rudolf Klein, a health policy expert, begin to assemble the many lessons from the Bristol case (pp 1685 and 1740). All cardiac and thoracic surgeons will now have to submit their figures for inspection. This move is likely to spread to other types of sur
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