Last month, my President’s message spoke about the horrors of ‘blood-letting’ in nail bars and beauty parlours. The expansion of medical misinformation has again been highlighted by the tragic case of Paloma Shemirani, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate, who died from non-Hodgkin lymphoma after declining chemotherapy. She had been deeply influenced by her mother, a former nurse and prominent conspiracy theorist, with dangerous anti-science and anti-medicine beliefs. Paloma’s death was a terrible, avoidable loss.
This has been genuinely troubling and serves as a stark reminder of the challenges faced by NHS staff when misinformation undermines trust in medical care. I want to commend the haematology team involved, who did everything possib...
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