Supporters start petition to save doctor who was 'forced out' after asking a Muslim woman to lift her veil 

A doctor under investigation for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil said yesterday that he has been inundated with messages of support. Dr Keith Wolverson, 52, said supporters have started a petition calling for him to be exonerated.

Dr Wolverson said the woman did not object when he ‘politely’ asked her to remove the face covering because he was struggling to understand what she was saying about her sick daughter. But her husband later made a complaint and last week the locum GP was shocked to receive a letter from doctors’ regulator the General Medical Council. It said that he was being investigated over allegations of racial discrimination which could result in him being struck off.

Since the incident at a walk-in centre at Royal Stoke University Hospital last June Dr Wolverson has been unable to work there, and he now plans to walk away from medicine – despite an unblemished 23 years in general practice...

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