Should This Struck-Off Junior Doctor Be Granted An Appeal?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5565601/Junior-doctor-struck-six-year-old-died-sepsis-hospital-granted-appeal.html

What about the parents of this littler boy and future parents of ill children in the future?

I don't see why she should be granted an appeal just because her colleagues demanded it, it would be the same if an MP was dismissed and he/she was granted an appeal on the request of their fellow colleague MPs.

[vulcan42]

\\ the risk of her putting a patient at risk of harm in the future was ‘no higher than in the case of any other competent doctor’."//
That sounds reasonable but she was under pressure, what happens if she comes under pressure again? No amount of training can deal with that.

[Sqad]

naomi

"If that's normal procedure her failure was not a mistake - it was negligence."

In medicine and i think also in Law , making a mistake is not synonymous with negligence. if that was the case, then no doctor would have run the gauntlet of patient care without being accused of negligence.

[rowanwitch]

Something perhaps those outside the medical system may not understand is the extreme reluctance of junior doctors to as for a consultant review. They feel it is a black mark against them, a sign of lack of confidence or competence. I know of a number of junior doctors who were in this position and if their consultant is a barsteward who does not like to be disturbed were absolutely petrified of the reaction they would get. It was often the senior nurse on shift who would get involved and offer to take the blame for the call.

[hereIam]

No, definitely not.