What he meant is that he knew all the research on all medications and treatments, but at the end of the day every patient is unique and he would have to makeajudgement call on what exact treatment to prescribe.
And on Friday evening it emerged that the consultants had reported back that the plan was not good enough to makea proper judgement, but based on what they had seen it was not viable.
Mr Burnham argued that without the risk register, the Commons did not have all the relevant information needed to makea "full and considered judgement" on whether to approve the bill.