Medicine in the UK after Shipman: Has "all changed, changed utterly"?

PHYSICIAN malpractice; SERIAL murderers; SHIPMAN, Harold Frederick, 1946-2004; PUBLIC health; MEDICAL ethics; BRISTOL Royal Infirmary (Bristol, England)

Discusses the response of the medical community in Great Britain following major medical scandals, such as the conviction of Harold Shipman for murdering 215 patients, and the failing of the pediatric cardiac service at Bristol Royal Infirmary in England which resulted in the deaths of three dozen children. How patients continue to be trusting of physicians; Need for the medical community and the National Health Service in Great Britain to improve accountability of doctors and develop professional standards.