The General Medical Council (GMC) is in overdrive, with medical professionals being erased from the register for ‘wrongspeak’. Yet this is not a new phenomenon. If we delve into the history of how our existing ‘medical monopoly’ was established, it is an all too familiar disturbing playbook of censorship, corruption and subversion of ethics that spans over 130 years in the making.
Science
Peer Review:
Peer review is a system used by scientists and clinicians to decide which primary research or secondary (review/commentary) content is worthy of being published. In theory it is a process of cumulative, collective knowledge that through publications is cascaded from experts to readers. But in practice things are not always what they seem!
