Panorama: hospital secrets uncovered

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This was on this evening:

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000w7rk/panorama-hospital-secrets-uncovered

It included the story of a boy whose growth has been stunted by over-prescribing of steroids and other drugs to treat a condition it eventually turned out he didn't have. Much talk of negligence, of the terrible damage done to him, the problems of over-medication etc. Shock, horror.

How can the BBC be so concerned about this case and others like it, yet so blind to the hundreds, possibly thousands, of other young people needlessly prescribed unnecessary puberty blockers, hormones and surgery?

There is striking cognitive dissonance on this.

To be fair, Panorama have reported and investigated on the Tavistock. Didn't they do quite a searing report on it last year?

I don't remember the Tavistock one being as totally damning, but maybe time has softened my memory of it.

It's shocking to realise how negligent some doctors, even specialists at world-famous institutions, can be.

There's going to be so much awful
fallout from this period. People are being wilfully blind to it.

TBH glad they are critiquing health care in this country when needed. I am fed up of over the past year the whole all doctors are good, all nurses are amazing. Yes some individuals are amazing and I have total respect for that, but some are downright shit. Doctors and nurses blindly defending each other going well they are a doctor/nurse like me so must defend my profession does nothing apart from make me lose respect for the person speaking.

Very impressed with the BBC for actually doing this and highlighting some of these issues.

And yes I totally agree I think we will look back at this time and the handing out of hormones ect ect with regret as a nation

I saw the major reports on the Tavistock consent failings- Deborah Cohen and Hannah Barnes were the reporters who investigated and it was a really influential piece of journalism. That’s great that Panorama followed it up, I had missed that.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55282113

Ah, sorry,. maybe it was for Newsnight, not Panorama?

ourduty.group/2020/06/19/bbc-newsnight-safeguarding-concerns/

No youre quite right there is one:
‘Trans Kids: Why Medicine Matters’
Panorama
‘More young people than ever are coming forward to explore their gender identity. Last year, 2,500 under-18s were referred to NHS Englandâs gender identity clinics for support. Some are hoping to get access to potentially irreversible treatments as soon as they can. Doctors are divided about the best way to help - so what is the evidence? Dr Faye Kirkland investigates how much we understand about the care being offered to transgender children.‘

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002tw1

I think I’ve even watched it, but I can’t remember much about it

Sonia Appleby the safeguarding lead at the Tavistock is currently taking them to a tribunal over how they treated her concerns - some of which was covered in the Newsnight programme. I have a thread running if you are interested