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Medicine, Justice and the Bubblegum Factory (Paperback)
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Medicine, Justice and the Bubblegum Factory (Paperback)
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This is the story of a son's journey to achieve justice and closure
following the death of his father from industrial disease and
corporate negligence. As a working class man from Romford, Graham
describes his unconventional path to becoming a doctor after a
turbulent childhood of maternal illness, a spell in a children's
home, fostering with relatives and the final badge of under
achievement, 11 plus failure. During his medical training, Graham's
father died after developing disseminated cancer. There were strong
grounds for suspecting occupational exposure to asbestos as the
cause but, to the family's dismay, this diagnosis failed to be
recognised at post-mortem. Two of Graham's uncles who had worked
alongside his father as boiler coverers before the war suffered a
similar fate but were correctly diagnosed with asbestos-induced
tumours and their families received appropriate compensation. After
a decade spent becoming a cancer and leukaemia specialist, and with
the help of a pathologist colleague, the cause of Graham's father's
death was re-visited and the correct diagnosis of mesothelioma
secondary to asbestos was finally confirmed. A case was eventually
brought to the High Court against his former employer, the
multinational conglomerate, Turner and Newall, and the claim was
successful with the award of substantial damages. This story
highlights the corporate deceit and indifference shown by the
industry towards the health of their workers and how the press
exposure of Graham's family's tragedy helped contribute towards the
eventual demise of the company. The lessons regarding the wider
social responsibility of corporations and the importance of
industrial health and safety regulations are still being learnt
today.
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