Abstract
DEAR SIR,
A mental state examination of the RANZCP during the recent Holling-worth affair revealed, in addition to a degree of confusion and grandiosity, two more worrying deficits. In particular, the College demonstrated a lack of short term memory and an inability to interpret the proverb “people in glass houses should not throw stones”. I suggest that we would be more comfortably seated on our high horse if we were to offer an apology to survivors for our belated actions in the Chelmsford case and our failure to come to grips with the sexual abuse of patients perpetrated by some College members.