Chris Stokes may not be far off the truth.
From what I can see, Persaud's defence was based on something like:
"I'm so extremely busy and stressed out being the popular voice of
psychiatry that I became a little confused, and overlooked the fact
that I had not properly cited the work of others. And for that reason
you should let me off."
And going by the three month suspension, it could be argued that this
is exactly what the GMC has done.
Francis
On 23 Jun 08, at 13:53, C.A.Stokes wrote:
> Was he arguing -
> I don't have the details of his defence - that he was suffering from
> some
> kind of as-yet unnamed psychosis that robs sufferers of the normal
> ability
> of grown-ups to realize that plagiarism is infra dig? Or perhaps
> that a
> faulty keyboard he was using had a duff inverted-commas key; he was
> pressing
> it in all the right places but it was dropping them before he sent
> off the
> manuscripts.
--
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