The discovery in the United Kingdom on Queen Elizabeth II’s birthday that one of the British Parliament’s winners on the traditional list of award recipients was a physician who had lost his license in 2002 and was accused of fabricating a scientific article proved to be a source of embarrassment. It was surgeon Anjan Kumar Banerjee, 54 years old, who is now working at a hospital in Bedford in the East of England. He is also the director of a life sciences consulting firm. In 2000, he was found guilty of fabricating a scientific article that was published in 1990. He also lost his license to practice medicine in 2002 when he was accused of lying to patients about wait times for treatments, sending them to private companies, and charging them for treatments that were not provided. Banerjee’s license was reinstated in 2007. The committee associated with the British prime minister’s cabinet office in charge of the award claimed that it had not been informed of Banerjee’s past, indicated by the services provided in the hospitals where he worked. Banjee told the newspaper The Independent that he was sorry for the acts he committed and that he had learned from those experiences. He claims that he completed a rigorous career rehabilitation program. “All the hospitals I have worked at since 2007 have been informed about my past,” he stated.
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