As most of you will know from the news barrage, the UK High Court has overturned an earlier decision of the Health Professions Council to have sports physiotherapist Stephen Brennan struck off.(1) Background: Brennan admitted his part in the ‘Bloodgate’ scam. He provided fake blood capsules to the player (Tom Williams) in order to deceive […]
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Bloodgate decision on Friday – learning from the past…
The Royal Society of Medicine (London) hosted a conference on sports medicine, ethics, and law last night (Jan 11, 2011). Before punsters start with the ‘I thought that was a contradiction in terms’, this fascinating meeting brought debate about: ‘Bloodgate’, the ethics of taping a ‘non-injury’ so as this obvious decoy would draw tackles away […]