Seven days in medicine: 26 April to 2 May 2023

Covid-19MP is expelled after vaccine commentsAndrew Bridgen has been expelled from the Conservative Party after comparing the rollout of the covid-19 vaccine to the Holocaust. The outspoken backbencher claimed that a “consultant cardiologist” had told him that the vaccine was “causing serious harms,” adding that the vaccine programme was “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.” He was suspended from the parliamentary party in January and has now been ejected from the Conservatives by a disciplinary panel. Pledging to stand again as an MP, he said that he had been expelled “under false pretences.”Assisted dyingInadequate palliative care drives change in JerseyThree quarters of respondents to a consultation on legalising assisted dying in Jersey raised the possibility of better alleviating suffering at the end of life with a new law. The report follows a landslide vote in favour of change in November 2021 and recommendations by a citizens’ jury in…



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