More than 7,500 doctors have signed a letter expressing their concerns about the decision to strike off a paediatrician for causing the death of a young boy. They have warned that doctors may be less likely to admit mistakes after Hadiza Bawa-Garba’s name was removed from the medical register last week. More than £160,000 has been raised in a crowdfunding campaign to fund the junior doctor’s legal costs. Bawa-Garba was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter over the death in 2011 of Jack Adcock, a six-year-old boy who had Down’s syndrome, and she received a suspended two-year prison sentence. She failed to spot that Jack, from Leicestershire, was suffering from septic shock and mistook him for a different child under a “do not resuscitate” order, telling…

Source: The Times January 29, 2018 00:56 UTC