Well I have broken my rule of not sending my email immediately when I am hopping mad.
This has gone
Sorry Jane for this on the list but I just had to respond.
Dear Editor
I do not wish to write a letter for publication but I need to know to whom I should write, to complain in the strongest terms about the publication of a letter by Amy Tuteur. Even without knowing her background it seems to me obvious that the letter carries highly damaging fake news.
At last this week some intelligent reporting, of The Report by Ockenden of her review of the tragedies arising in the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, has analysed the complex situation with honesty and fairness. Would BMJ look to journalists who have bothered to be honest and fair?
There has never been a cult of normal birth in the UK.
Doesn't your 'reputable' medical journal need some evidence.
Is any due diligence applied when you publish letters?
Amy is a well-known attacker of any British Midwife who applies evidence to practice and seeks to improve maternity care. She is vicious and pernicious. I don't think her standing as an obstetrician has ever been verified. I was once the subject of one of her blogs. Together with two colleagues who have spent a lifetime improving the quality of maternity care, in a tryptic, bloody handprints over our faces, and cold hearted baby killers as a title. I couldn't read the blog. I was President of RCM at the time. They could do nothing.
Midwives in the UK are on their knees, with staff shortages and complex services. They are devastated by the news from Ockenden, and are now trying to reassure childbearing women who are so anxious about the news of the maternity scandal.
Would you please apologise for publishing this letter. Perhaps you could ask a leading midwife such as Professor Soo Downe or Professor Mary Renfrew, both of whom write brilliantly, write a commentary or opinion piece.
Does BMJ really want to be part of peddling this fake narrative? Does BMJ really want to be part of vilifying the profession of midwifery. I would hope not.
Please advise who I should write to.
With thanks and kind regards
Lesley
Professor Lesley Page CBE
Visiting Professor in Midwifery
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care
King's College London
mobile +44(o)7747708630
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