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Vulnerable patients, vulnerable doctors (CR101)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. O'Hara ,
Emmanuel Akuffo ,
Susil Attale ,
Anton Canagasaby ,
C. Chandra-Rajan ,
Deirdre O'Brady ,
Jean O'Hara ,
Tom Picton ,
Rahman  and
David Thomas
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J. O'Hara
Affiliation:
North East London/East Anglia CMEGroup
Emmanuel Akuffo
Affiliation:
Waltham Forest
Susil Attale
Affiliation:
Brentwood
Anton Canagasaby
Affiliation:
Billericay
C. Chandra-Rajan
Affiliation:
Southend
Deirdre O'Brady
Affiliation:
Newham
Jean O'Hara
Affiliation:
Tower Hamlets
Tom Picton
Affiliation:
Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities, Colchester
Rahman
Affiliation:
Billericay
David Thomas
Affiliation:
Redbridge
Emad Yousif
Affiliation:
Colchester
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 27 , Issue 5 , May 2003 , pp. 195
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As a Continuing Medical Education (CME) Group of Consultants in the Psychiatry of Learning Disabilities, we wish to express our deep concern at the vignette (case 3) contained in the recent publication ‘Vulnerable patients, vulnerable doctors’ (CR101).

We welcome the educational objectives of this document and the opportunity to address the complexities of working in this sub-speciality with large numbers of vulnerable people. However, we feel that the serious and important ethical issues raised in this vignette are undermined by the portrayal of the consultant psychiatrist in learning disability, and this potentially damages our standing in the medical profession.

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