No it's not the new British series of Celebrity Big Brother it's the PIP faulty breast implant story.
Following France's announcement in December that it will pay for all French women with PIP implants to have the faulty medical procedure reversed the Czech Republic has announced that it will also pay for Czech women to have the faulty implants removed. Although I think the main issue here are genuine concerns about the safety of the PIP implants I like to think that in the timing of their announcement the Czechs are showing me support in the subtext to the story that relates to my grandmother. Today (6/1/12) Britain has announced that it will pay for women who had PIP implants fitted on the NHS to have the implants removed. They have also advised that private clinics that used PIP implants pay to have them removed from their patients with the private clinics insurance companies picking up the bill. So Britain is ignoring the subtext relating to my grandmother and trying to impose it's own one about the August riots and the Riot Damages Act.
Also British boxer Amir Khan has produced documents that he says show he actually won his December 10th fight against US boxer Lamont Peterson. This relates to the fact that I have photographs showing that my grandmother's medical records were altered to disguise the fact that she'd been treated with Haldol - a powerful anti-psychotic - prior to her mini-psychiatric assessment by the elderly care team. Obviously medical records are strictly privileged and therefore confidential so although it never came up at the hearing Britain is trying to argue that those photographs cannot be entered into evidence because they were unlawfully obtained. Again that argument is a non-starter firstly because I was asking the Court to lawfully examine the actual records rather then the photographs as part of a full forensic psychiatric assesment and secondly because I took the photographs in front of both the patient and her appointed guardian so they were obtained lawfully with consent.
The way that Britain has framed the issue is quite interesting though. Obviously because the fight was staged in the US and was won by a US boxer the US has little choice then to argue that there was no problem and Khan lost the fight giving the impression that the US supports Britain on the photograph issue.
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