... Ms Thurgood's use of the internet to
research home birth was «sadly an example of the danger of untrained users
utilising raw data or statistical information to support a premise as to risk, without
knowledge and understanding of the complex myriad of factors relevant to the risk».
You don't have to be a trained doctor or
research academic to come to that conclusion, but clearly the
knowledge attained from years of study and subsequent clinical practice does put a formerly registered practising medical practitioner in a position where her expertise can be
utilised, as an expert witness in this field, without her currently «practising» medicine.