Aloha - no I think not, judging by this from yesterday's Daily Mail (sorry, don't have a direct link):
In tatters, his marriage and his reputation
As he returned to his home, the disgraced professor must surely have wondered how he turned from one of the country's most eminent paediatricians to such a public pariah.
David Southall had no loving spouse or children to welcome him as his personal life is in as much disarray as his professional reputation.
He is living apart from his second wife, Jean, a former nurse and the mother of his two youngest children, Lawrence, 14, and Helen, 16.
The marriage broke down as he faced a continuing barrage of complaints from parents.
The Clark case is the first of eight similar cases now under scrutiny by the GMC.
'It seems that the tensions of this hearing and the chance that he would be struck off began to bite into the marriage,' said one friend last week.
'Jean is a lovely woman who found the finger-pointing at David hard to bear.
'She just couldn't take the accusations against her husband anymore. He is an arrogant man and that broke down their relationship.' Next month, their marital home in Butterton, Staffordshire, will be sold for GBP395,000 after being on the market for almost a year.
'The sale was not a matter of choice,' added the friend. 'David has been forced to raise the money to pay out Jean and he will be gone in a matter of weeks.' Now living a few miles away from her husband, Jean Southall looks tearful as she declines to speak about the break-up.
No doubt she must question how she came to fall in love with a man, already married with two children, who has caused her such heartbreak and notoriety.
No one has watched the rise and fall of Southall as closely.
The couple married in 1986 when he had already transformed himself from a GP into a childcare expert with a passion for discovering the cause of cot deaths.
A decade earlier, while a senior research fellow at the British Heart Foundation and a lecturer at the Royal Brompton Hospital, he published a well-received paper exploring sudden infant death and babies with breathing difficulties.
The research, completed when he was only 29, was a first indication that childhood illnesses - and subsequently child protection - would become this ambitious young doctor's obsessions.
During the next two decades, he studied children with rare illnesses. As part of his work, he also controversially used secret cameras to film mothers as they cared for their sick children in hospital because he suspected they were hurting them.
The results - revealed later by Southall and fellow researchers - were deeply shocking.
In 30 cases, mothers were filmed apparently trying to suffocate their children, two were found poisoning their babies and one was discovered fracturing an arm.
MANY of these mothers have since been imprisoned or had their children adopted.
Some protested their innocence, but whatever the truth of each case, Southall's career was on the way up.
Soon, he and fellow paediatrician, Professor Sir Roy Meadow - who faces a GMC inquiry later this year - were making a name for themselves in courts across the country as expert witnesses in suspicious childhood death cases.
They declared that mothers often suffered from a mysterious and unproven psychological ailment called Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP).
The doctors claimed mothers were killing or maiming children to attract attention to themselves.
Having identified MSbP, the two began to pronounce their diagnosis with fervour, despite the protests of parents.
Penny Mellor, a campaigner for mothers wrongly accused of MSbP, said: 'Some of these distraught mothers faced losing their children after social workers were called in purely on the say-so of David Southall and his cohorts.' One, Davina McLean, took her desperately ill son Ben, five, to see Southall 13 years ago.
'It was like being raped across the table,' she said. 'He said I was suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, that my husband and I "liked the idea" of Ben having a rare breathing disorder and he accused us of making it all up.' Ben was taken into care after Southall's team alerted social workers and it took a year of High Court battles to get him back.
By then, the McLeans said Ben was suffering from irreversible brain damage which they believe was caused by Southall's dubious tests involving gas.
Worse was to come. By 1992, Southall had taken up a prestigious professorship at Keele University and was about to start working at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
There, he conducted more controversial experiments: putting premature babies with breathing problems on a ventilator system called CNEP, similar to the iron lung developed for polio victims.
The device places a baby in a low pressure tank, forcing the lungs to expand and take in air. A tight rubber ring is put around the neck, holding the child firmly in place.
Subsequently, 28 children were left dead and 15 were brain damaged.
Others suffered horrific neck injuries.
There was an outcry from parents but the medical world sprang to Southall's defence.
Some declared him to be the saviour of vulnerable children. Inquiries later cleared him of wrongdoing although he was cautioned for being overzealous.
BUT the public anger prevailed and Southall took the nameplate off the gate to his house and removed references to his work from medical registers. When he won an OBE for his charity work, no entry appeared in Who's Who.
The climate of suspicion had an impact on his family.
A friend of his wife Jean said: 'Knowing her husband was at the sharp end of these accusations became difficult for her. He had become more unpopular than the scientists who experiment on live animals.' Meanwhile, his first wife Elaine, mother of his daughters Rebecca, 29, and Laura, 26, was monitoring his career and home life very carefully as it started to hit trouble.
The couple had married when he was a medical student in London and she was a student nurse of 21.
The union officially ended in 1986.
For him, the future was a high-profile career and a new family. For Elaine, 55, it spelled 15 years of poverty as a single mother.
Small wonder she says: 'My former husband is a very tricky man.' Yet there are those who still believe he has been unfairly treated. Professor Alan Craft, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, has been an active defender.
He recently claimed that paediatricians such as Southall have been wrongly vilified for safeguarding children from abuse or ill treatment.
Yesterday, though, there were few willing to speak up for the man who has ruined so many parents' lives.