Brand and Ross’s cheap laughs cost them dear

Posted by on Oct 29, 2008 in updates | 19 comments BBC bosses could not ignore the one story which has this week hijacked all major global news stories in the British media – the  revolting Brand-Ross prank call. It displaced the credit crunch, the Peter Mandelson/George  Osborne Corfu scandal and , as well as the looming American presidential elections, from the front pages of our national newspapers. It caused a national...
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Have you sought a second opinion?

Posted by on Oct 29, 2008 in updates | 7 comments Have you ever sought a second medical opinion? This story in The Mail describes how seeking a second opinion saved the lives of patients who were incorrectly diagnosed, including a woman whose mouth cancer was dismissed as post-natal depression, while a patient with a brain tumour was thought to have a virus. It is worrying reading. But on the whole, our doctors do their best, and we have to rely...
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