GMC Says iwantgreatcare IS " UNTESTED AND AS SUCH PERHAPS WE SHOULDN'T HAVE PROMOTED IT"

How do we get out of this "Quietly"?

Dr Neil Bacon cites the criticisms of the blogsphere to be a " noisy minority". He crowed away much like a large fat puffer fish telling the world how grand he was.

The "effect" of the blogsphere can be seen by the reaction of the General Medical Council. Sometime ago, we reported that the GMC had dissociated from Dr Neil Bacon and iwantgreatcare.org.

As I prefer evidence, I pottered over to the General Medical Council and asked them for the original documents. I have uploaded them below. The emails are extremely interesting. It shows President Graeme Catto "offered" the piece that Neil wrote in GMC Today. The furore had started after I wrote a brief post regarding my disgust. Dr Crippen then took the issue up and the furore began.

I have often suspected some favouritism between President Graeme Catto and Neil Bacon. They are both renal physicians afterall. The emails below confirms that Graeme allowed Bacon to play with his dipsticks. The enclosed is the internal exchanges of emails obtained from GMC Towers. I have quoted some of the most interesting and amusing texts.

Cover Letter
Guy Goodwin to Tim Walker [ GMC Towers]

The site was indeed untested and as such perhaps we shouldn't have promoted it, but this was a piece that Graeme "offered".
Could you advise please?


Paul Spindler to Jackie Rowley et al
"Both Dr Bacon and his colleague Dr Roy were very apologetic"
"To cut a long story short, all mentions of revalidation
and the GMC have been removed"
"It is possible that a canny journalist or doctor
will sport these modifications and
suspect some kind of intervention on our part"
"However, I get the sense that the "HYPE"
surrounding this website is starting to quiet down"

Finlay Scott at his best. We have to give him 20/10 for Diplomacy. No doubt he really wanted to tell Bacon to..........

So there are many things I dislike about Finlay Scott. He goes missing during important court hearings [Pal v GMC 2004]. Yes, its true, no one in the GMC could find him despite requests from Judge Harris. No one could find him under his desk either. He may have been in Graeme Catto's wardrobe though. Counsel failed to check there.

Finlay dislikes me. That is fine because the feeling is mutual. That is because I give him a run for his money all the time. He can be sure that no doctor will ever make his hair fall out as much as I do. My intention is to prove that money and millions cannot buy tactics and intelligence.

Nevertheless, one can even admire reptiles from afar for their sheer intelligence and smarm. There is a certain darkened charm in reptiles. You have to have "quality"- even in your enemies.

Neil Bacon didn't have "quality" but Finlay Scott does have some "quality" about him.

Finlay Scott is diplomatic. Finlay Scott is also highly intelligent. His pristine image is never ruined because everyone around him does "the job" he intends. Personally, I think he would look better in Saville Row suits but that is because I believe if you cannot admire the heart of a man, you simply have to resort to their looks.

So, I was thinking about all the positives because someone emailed me about my rather negative view on the GMC. They suggested that I say something positive about Finlay Scott. So, having bitten my lip - I suppose Finlay wrote a excellent statement for the Shipman Inquiry. He has all the trappings of Dorian Grey - appearance wise. I am positive that he has some portrait of him in a darkened room growing old while he remains suave. There are just a few things missing in Finlay Scott but no man is perfect by any means.

If Scott wants it done, it gets done. We have to admit that it cannot be easy running the Titanic and crashing it into a iceberg every minute.

We noted the increasing visitations to nhsexposedblog during the iwantgreatcare.org hype!. Of course, no one would admit that we [ Jobbing Doctor, Witchdoctor, Dr Crippen and I] had anything remotely to do with Finlay's decision. What were we again? Ah, yes, a "noisy minority". What is Neil going to call Finlay Scott then? A noisy minority??

The dissociation from iwantgreatcare.org was done because Scott ordered it.

Interestingly, if I believed in something and wrote on this website or blog - the GMC would never succeed in forcing its removal. They would have to fight me to the ends of every court room in the UK.

Bacon may be many things but today he has shown himself to be nothing more than a wimp. That goes for Dr Roy as well. Both are currently to be found bowing and scraping to Finlay Scott. Bacon and Roy are cowards, they are incompetent, less than transparent and should be investigated by the GMC for misleading so many members of the public. If the Information Commissioner rules against Bacon, he is to be sent directly to the General Medical Council for indepth investigation of his conduct.

As for me - I don't bow and scrape to anyone. I never have and never will. There are many things you can desert - chocolate, food, good looking men, your virginity but you never desert your self respect.

NB Thankyou Mark Ellen of the GMC for supplying the above documents. No doubt they were supplied to me by order of Finlay Scott, CEO to the GMC. Many thanks to both of you.

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