A Profession Divided

Abstract

Judge Cartwright made damning statements about Herb Green’s professional competence. She wrote, ‘An analysis of Dr Green’s papers points to misinterpretation or misunderstandings of some data on his part, and on occasion, manipulation of his own data.’¹ She believed that the evidence of invasiveness appears to have been disregarded by [Green] or not fully understood’.² At best she portrays him as stupid, at worst devious. She extended these assessments to some of his colleagues. Green and others at the hospital were accused of making confused statements’.³ Commenting on Professor Dennis Bonham’s explanation to Coney that the women had abnormal cytology but not cancer, Cartwright wrote that this was ‘misleading’ and a ‘misinterpretation [of] factual matters’.⁴