GMC to push for erasure of paediatrician convicted of manslaughter

No one can read this case and not be moved on at least three counts. Firstly, unconditional sympathy for the family of the deceased child. Secondly, disturbed bafflement about the decision of the GMC to pursue Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba for professional misconduct. There is nothing in the account of the night in question to suggest that she is un-fit to practise, and nothing in her history to suggest that she posed a danger to her patients. How do we as clinicians reconcile our duties of candour with fears of erasure? And, thirdly, sympathy for Dr Bawa-Garba, who truly seems the scapegoat for an institutional inadequacy.