Please see www.medical-legal.co.uk/patient_info/ for a reasonable disclaimer that I (and m'learned friends) are happy with. That
article in GP suggests that if you publish anything, including the patient information leaflets they have been publishing,
establishes a duty of care. How do the doctors on the telly and radio get away with it? I think we should be told.
Trefor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [log in to unmask]
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Adrian Midgley
> Sent: 16 November 1998 14:13
> To: GP-UK (E-mail)
> Subject: GMC and MDU approach 20th century, oops. (GP page 12)
>
>
> Interesting to see the GMC have advertised their Web site by
> printing colourful cards - the example shown giving the web address
> as
>
> www.gmc.uk.org
>
> Never mind, I think we can work it out.
>
> On the same page of this excellent journal is quoted the MDU advice,
> that as the Web is full of rubbish put about by charlatans and
> frauds (I am paraphrasing) proper doctors should refrain from
> putting up anything that could be construed as advice.
>
> Ho hum. Perhaps the MDU advises GPs not to write for or be quoted
> in GP and similar magazines. Indeed, clearly a paper in the BMJ,
> should it fall into the hands of a member of the public, could
> constitute a duty of care toward that member and should be prefaced
> with the remark that reading this should not be regarded as a
> substitute for seeing the author.
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