New roles in a changing society A series of four programmes

At a time when hospital doctors and the National Health Service are at odds, Harold Williamson talks to a hospital consultant who questions his own profession and frequently produces angry response from his colleagues.
Peter Huntingford is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The London Hospital in the East End of London.
He believes that men and women know best about their own bodies and that they should have more say about what happens to them in hospital.
He feels that, especially in childbirth, technology is taking over simply because it is available and not because it is always necessary. Doctors, he says, should stop behaving like gods and should stop pretending they know all the answers.
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