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The cot death controversy.
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The cot death controversy Until last year Professor Sir Roy Meadow was one the most respected doctors in Britain. A former president of the British Paediatric Association and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, he was widely regarded as a leading authority in the sphere of child abuse. After the release on appeal of two mothers - Sally Clark and Angela Cannings - convicted, with the support of expert evidence from Meadow, on charges of killing their infant children, and after the collapse of murder charges against Trupti Patel, Meadow has been reviled by campaigners and condemned in the media. While hundreds of similar cases - both criminal and civil - are being reviewed, in which parents have been convicted or children taken into care, Meadow now faces charges of serious professional misconduct before the General Medical Council (GMC). Whatever the outcome of these proceedings, two of Meadow's most controversial contributions...
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