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More Wakefield Speaking Out
Question 7: Dr Andrew Wakefield - Drawn Out Trial Why did it take so long for the charges to be brought against you, Murch and Walker-Smith? I think that is really a question for the prosecuting council I don't know, and I suspect it may go to the quality of the charges themselves, the reliability of the charges. How do you construe a charge out of 'you caused this child to have a lumbar puncture'? What does that mean? You didn't do it, you didn't order it, you didn't assess the child in advance to determine whether they needed it. You were part of none of those things, yet you caused the child to have a lumbar puncture. Well, it is an interesting form of words, so I don't know, I don't know, but I suspect they wanted to get as much together as they could, to throw everything in there in the hope that something would stick. Question 9: The Trial of Clinical Medicine But I thought we were supposed to be living in a democracy? So did I (laughs), we are so far from living in a democracy, so far, and this is a very very important case in so many ways. I know that may sound very pompous to say that but actually orthodox medicine is on trial here. We, my colleagues and I, practice orthodox medicine based implicitly on the history of the patient, the physical examination of the patient, the correct clinical evaluation of the patient, making a diagnosis, treating that, the disease, and monitoring the patient. That is what we do, and that is the kind of medicine that should be practice. That is really being challenged now. When that comes into conflict with the beliefs, the diktat of public health, it is no longer someway permissible to do that, so medicine is on trial, and if we lose, the position of the Department of Health is endorsed, then their ability to persecute doctors in this way is upheld, then what happens in the future? What happens when their is a drug related injury to a patient, what happens when a new complication emerges from a treatment or a vaccine? Doctors are going to say, hey, it's too bad, I'm not going to get involved, because you have Big Pharmaceutical industry there, with their friends in government, that are going to come down on me and make my life a misery. It happened with Thalidomide and it has happened time and time again. Every time a doctor puts his head up above the parapet and said this vaccine or this drug is not safe, then his world had been turned upside down. That is not a reason to walk away, in fact it is every reason to fight it because otherwise we just hand over, give up, hand over the world to the drug companies and walk away. Question 11 Dr Andrew Wakefield - The Frighteners How do you feel about the lack of support shown by fellow doctors generally? (inaudible, letters?) from GPs and psychiatrists, and others saying this is what happened to this child, and we are right behind with you. Where are you? I don't see you, but that is OK, that's OK, I don't feel any antipathy towards them. It is just human nature. Maybe they are not sufficiently persuaded that they are ready to come all the way out. Maybe....many of the doctors I deal with are parents of affected children themselves, they know what happened. Sometimes they are still frightened to say. That I find a little difficult to swallow. Their children have been damaged and yet they still are keen to keep quiet about it. |
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