The Guardian newspaper reported yesterday that writer and media psychiatrist Raj Persaud is fighting to save his career:

One of Britain’s best-known psychiatrists began a battle to save his consultant’s job yesterday after admitting wholesale plagiarism in a book and articles which underpinned his celebrity media career.

Dr Raj Persaud sat quietly at a General Medical Council hearing as the scale of his profiting from “the hard work and scholarship of others” was catalogued and described as making him unfit to practise.

He was also accused of trying to blame subeditors for cutting out acknowledgments which had never existed. Jeremy Donne QC, counsel for the GMC, said that repeated dishonesty had been deliberately used to “enhance his professional reputation and standing with the public and the press”.