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Bolsin: Maverick or martyr?

Dr Stephen Bolsin is the man widely credited with blowing the whistle on Bristol - endangering his own future in the process.

He claims he was virtually driven out of medicine in this country after proving the catalyst for the ensuing scandal.

But what drives a relatively junior consultant anaesthetist to take the extreme step of risking everything in this way?

Dr Bolsin's own words sum it up: "In the end I just couldn't go on putting those children to sleep, with their parents present in the anaesthetic room, knowing that it was almost certain to be the last time they would see their sons or daughters alive."

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Source: BBC News

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