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Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)

31 May 2021 | Andrew Burd (Prof)

On the 8 December 2020, Justice Judianna Barnes sentenced Dr Mak Wan-ling to three and a half years in prison. The charge for which she was found guilty was gross negligence manslaughter (GNM). She had injected a contaminated blood sample into a patient and the patient had died. The conviction was fundamentally flawed.

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Gross Negligence Manslaughter in Healthcare: The medico-legal dilemma (part 1)