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Doctors' union in crisis?

Updated on 22 May 2007

By Andrew Thomas

The BMA faces a crisis as its members ask if their representatives are really on their side?

James Johnson, who resigned at the weekend as Chairman of the British Medical Association, today attributed his departure to his members' unhappiness with the recruitment system for junior doctors.

But could his resignation reflect a greater malaise within the BMA itself?

More4 News has been told that the catalyst for James Johnson's departure was a spate of doctors' resignations from the BMA.

As Andrew Thomas reports, many doctors seem to be turning away from their traditional trade union, towards a commercially-run online community - one, in large part, funded by the pharmaceutical industry.

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