Dr Tess Lawrie & Shabnam Mohamed on The Freeman Report with James Freeman - 15 February 2024

On today's show, Dr. Lawrie discusses her fight with the UK General Medical Council (GMC), which is threatening to erase her name from the GMC register for non-clinical doctors.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Dr. Tess Lawrie is a medical doctor and research consultant based in the UK. She is the Director of Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd and the founding Director of EbMCsquared CiC, a community interest research company. Dr. Lawrie sits on the steering committee of the World Council for Health and the Better Way Conference and is part of the leadership for The Unity Project. Dr. Lawrie is an external analyst for the WHO as a Guideline Methodologist – she assesses the evidence, compiles it, and makes recommendations. She is independent and has no conflicts of interest.

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Shabnam Palesa Mohamed is a human rights activist, journalist, and lawyer. Graduating with Dean’s Commendation in legal method, civil procedure, and criminal law, excelling in clinical law, Shabnam was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2003. She is a serving member of the Steering Committee of the World Council for Health and serves as CEO of Transformative Health Justice. Shabnam also co-convened the launch of the African Sovereignty Coalition, and she is the executive director of Children's Health Defense Africa.