Tribunal told of 'invasive' MMR tests
VULNERABLE children were subjected to "inappropriate and invasive" tests by doctors in breach of "fundamental rules in medicine", a hearing was told yesterday.
Dr Andrew Wakefield, who sparked the MMR controversy, did not have paediatric qualifications and had not worked as a clinical doctor for several years, the General Medical Council's fitness to practise panel was told. His role was as a research doctor and he had no right to investigate the children, it heard.
Dr Wakefield, 50, is charged with serious professional misconduct alongside professors John Walker-Smith and Simon Murch.
The trio, who deny the charge, published a paper in the Lancet in 1998 suggesting a link between the measles, mumps and rubella jab and bowel disease and autism. The hearing continues.
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