Stepping Onto the Dark Side

GMC Committee Member

These are the new GMC Committee members who have decided to become bona fide dementors. I always find it rather amusing that many doctors are of the view that they are somehow important if they reach the esteemed hallowed halls of the General Medical Council. I recall Alex Freeman once writing that "it made them feel important".

In my view, any decent human being would never join the likes of the General Medical Council . The issue here is that as a person you really have to desert your faith, your honesty and your integrity when joining the General Medical Council. You then have to wallow in the cesspit of GMC arrogance. This is what Wendy Savage has done in the past.

Essentially, you have to be much like Sam Everington. Sam was featured by Dr Crippen who told him to " Cut the Crap Sam".

Here are the new members

The names of the members are:

• Sir Rodney Brooke
• Professor Jane Dacre (start date 1 July 2009, when Sir Graeme’s term of office expires and he steps down from the Council)
• Dr Sam Everington
• Ms Sally Hawkins
• Dr John Jenkins
• Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope
• Ms Ros Levenson
• Dr Malcolm Lewis
• Mr Robin MacLeod
• Professor Rajan Madhok
• Dr Johann Malawana
• Dr Joan Martin
• Mrs Suzanne McCarthy
• Professor Jim McKillop
• Professor Trudie Roberts
• Mrs Ann Robinson
• Mrs Enid Rowlands
• Professor Peter Rubin
• Dr Mairi Scott
• Professor Iqbal Singh
• Professor Terence Stephenson
• Ms Anne Weyman
• Mr Stephen Whittle
• Dr Hamish Wilson

Details of the members can be reviewed here.

The GMC of course shows clearly that they approve of the actions of Prof Trudi Roberts. Trudi of course is the Dean of Leeds Medical School who has never held anyone accountable for the suicide of a final year medical student. The name Amir Mahmood may be familiar to her. The GMC of course will over look these issues. We should observe how many doctors subjected to GMC procedures will commit suicide with Trudi as committee member.

Secondly, Prof Terence Stephenson hit the headlines sometime ago in his stance for child protection doctors. There were secret talks in PACA regarding their plan to infiltrate the General Medical Council. My source who has infiltrated PACA tells me that a few plans are afoot. It is quite convenient when those in PACA have to agree to a confidentiality agreement to be part of "the group". Their pitiful confidentiality agreement isn't worth the paper it is written on since they have about 7 leaks. I should declare my conflict here - I was never allowed to be part of the discussion group on PACA. Of course, I am not stupid and I always manage to obtain reliable intel.

Because the vast majority of names on PACA are anonymous, no one can determine whether Prof Stephenson is a PACA member or not. If so, we wonder if PACA will be used as a secret cell for guilty doctors and if those guilty doctors will then be "let off" at the GMC. Actually, it is no different from Scientology or freemasonry really :). It is also very true that journal articles are written by members of PACA but no declaration of their membership of PACA is made. Perhaps it isn't a conflict of interest. Perhaps the word "conflict of interest" only applies to Timothy David and not members of PACA.

Good to see the token Asian there for the GMC to make up for the ethnic mix :). Bit like the General Medical Council has a picture of a black or brown person on their website to "show" they have a regard for equality.