Doctors call for an end to “malicious stories”

A group of five women doctors, all of whom claim to have had false and damaging allegations made against them, is calling on the General Medical Council (GMC) - the doctors' regulatory body in Britain - to take action against doctors who harm colleagues' careers by spreading malicious stories.

The women include Professor Wendy Savage, a senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology who was suspended in 1985 on grounds of alleged incompetence and later reinstated after a six week inquiry, and Dr Bridget O'Connell, who has just received an apology form her health authority after being suspended for 12 years from her job as consultant …