- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd (23 Oct 1986)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0860688593
- ISBN-13: 978-0860688594
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 490,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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So Much for Academic Freedom and Patient Choice,
This review is from: A Savage Enquiry (Paperback)
I recently read this book as included at the end of 'Birth and Power', a 2006 publication which includes what happened next, and relevant essays. I read the 'Savage Enquiry' first to put the preceeding essays in context. It was gripping! I couldn't put it down. It is the most riveting story of what happens when a doctor steps even a little bit out of line, even though what she does is evidence based and produces similar, if not better outcomes than her colleagues, and is what her patients want. It also show how she is victimised by these colleagues in a process that runs away with her like a rollercoaster, as she is found guilty by 'assumption', stonewalled, doing her job one day and on extended 'gardening' leave the next. Even more worrying, it shows how she would have been left there had it not been for her going to the public and the media, in campaigns spearheaded by her loyal patients, the National Childbirth Trust and local GPs. It would make a great film! The only shame, as the 2006 book shows, is that, despite being competely exonerated on all charges of incompetence, she was never fully integrated back into her job in a separate unit as recommended. For some reason, the colleagues who didn't want to work with her didn't appear to be able to let her work without them, so the problems continued - but I suppose that that is the difference between Real Life and Hollywood! Wendy Savage is a brave woman.
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