Woman miscarries after laser treatment
- Title
- Woman miscarries after laser treatment
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 21 Dec 1995
- Year of production
- 1995
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- Duration
- 00:05:20
- Description
- Malcolm Brown interviews Lorraine Pearce about losing a baby during laser treatment on her cervix. Lorraine believes the doctor should have stopped as soon as he found out she was pregnant. The interview follows the acquittal of Reginald Dixon, consultant gynaecologist, found not guilty of procuring a miscarriage on 38-year-old Barbara Whiten by carrying on with a hysterectomy on discovering she was pregnant.
- Contributors
- Malcolm Brown; Lorraine Pearce
- Keywords
- Medical ethics; Gynaecology; Trials; Doctors; Miscarriage; Lorraine Pearce; Reginald Dixon; Barbara Whiten; Gynaecological surgery
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