Today's BMJ/Wakefield/ Deer illegal access to records entries

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http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/feb02_4/c644#232669

Re: Patient Confidentiality

12 March 2010

Stone,

Contributing editor: Age of Autism

London N22

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Re: Re: Patient Confidentiality

Prof Dodge raises some

interesting questions. It might be one kind of issue if Mr Deer had legal

access to the documents and possibly misused them, but what if he did not

have legal access? Would this still be a matter for the civil courts, or

something else? I think we need clarification.

Competing interests: Autistic son

Patient Confidentiality

12 March 2010

Bill Welsh,

President

Autism Treatment Trust. Edinburgh EH3 7BJ

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Re: Patient Confidentiality

Professor Hodge,

and Stone touch on probably the most alarming aspect of the

already disturbing MMR debacle: The provision of the medical records of

vulnerable children to a tabloid journalist.

Unless ‘medical ethics’ is a one-way street applicable only to Dr

Wakefield and his colleagues there was apparently a monumental breach of

ethics at the Royal Free Hospital. One assumes a criminal investigation

was instigated (with full police involvement) by Dr Ari Zuckerman and Dr

Pegg (senior witnesses against Dr Wakefield) because anything

less would be totally unacceptable to the British public and one hopes to

the medical community.

In today’s pervert laden Britain there have been far too many examples

of slipshod attention by medical supremos to the safety of children.

Perhaps Ari Zuckerman or Pegg would be kind enough to enlighten

us regarding what action was taken.

But what about Horton, Lancet Editor, surely he knew earlier than

anybody that the journalist had obtained confidential records. Why did he

personally not actuate a police enquiry?

The list of doctors who knew but were content to do nothing is becoming

endless.

It would appear that the destruction of Dr Wakefield et al was

paramount. Ethics, integrity, rectitude and even common sense lost out in

the race to destroy the careers of three fine physicians.

Competing interests: Grandfather to an autistic boy.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

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[Guest guest]

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/340/feb02_4/c644#232669

Re: Patient Confidentiality

12 March 2010

Stone,

Contributing editor: Age of Autism

London N22

Send response to journal:

Re: Re: Patient Confidentiality

Prof Dodge raises some

interesting questions. It might be one kind of issue if Mr Deer had legal

access to the documents and possibly misused them, but what if he did not

have legal access? Would this still be a matter for the civil courts, or

something else? I think we need clarification.

Competing interests: Autistic son

Patient Confidentiality

12 March 2010

Bill Welsh,

President

Autism Treatment Trust. Edinburgh EH3 7BJ

Send response to journal:

Re: Patient Confidentiality

Professor Hodge,

and Stone touch on probably the most alarming aspect of the

already disturbing MMR debacle: The provision of the medical records of

vulnerable children to a tabloid journalist.

Unless ‘medical ethics’ is a one-way street applicable only to Dr

Wakefield and his colleagues there was apparently a monumental breach of

ethics at the Royal Free Hospital. One assumes a criminal investigation

was instigated (with full police involvement) by Dr Ari Zuckerman and Dr

Pegg (senior witnesses against Dr Wakefield) because anything

less would be totally unacceptable to the British public and one hopes to

the medical community.

In today’s pervert laden Britain there have been far too many examples

of slipshod attention by medical supremos to the safety of children.

Perhaps Ari Zuckerman or Pegg would be kind enough to enlighten

us regarding what action was taken.

But what about Horton, Lancet Editor, surely he knew earlier than

anybody that the journalist had obtained confidential records. Why did he

personally not actuate a police enquiry?

The list of doctors who knew but were content to do nothing is becoming

endless.

It would appear that the destruction of Dr Wakefield et al was

paramount. Ethics, integrity, rectitude and even common sense lost out in

the race to destroy the careers of three fine physicians.

Competing interests: Grandfather to an autistic boy.

Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian

Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Washington State, USA

Vaccines -

http://vaccinationdangers.wordpress.com/ Homeopathy

http://homeopathycures.wordpress.com

Vaccine Dangers, Childhood Disease Classes & Homeopathy

Online/email courses - next classes start March 24, March 31, & April

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