British Workers for British Jobs

Gordon Brown pledged many things. He pledged that British Workers would be given British Jobs. In February 2009, Gordon Brown is referred to as a lying wildcat. Protests have been underway and I am not surprised really.

I have one thing to say, I am a British doctor, was born here and have lived here. It would be a lie to say I didn't resent the fact that foreign doctors who speak little English and who can't manage basic cases are given NHS jobs and are treated better than I was because they have the ability of keeping quiet and I don't.

This is not a generalisation but simply this, during my years in medicine and psychiatry, I was quite frankly pissed off with having to cover for the flaws of doctors who did not know how the British system worked. In Northampton particularly, I was constantly asked to write the reports, cover because the doctor in question couldn't do basics like take blood, couldn't clerk patients, couldn't sign drug charts etc.

Each time, it was me who had to backtrack to complete things because he had not done them. The bosses told everyone internally that he wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer and if he couldn't do it, Rita could cover for him. I would be bleeped repeatedly for tasks that should have been done by this doctor.

So while saying a number of critical things behind his back, they propagated the rumour everywhere else that this foreign qualified doctor was a " safe pair of hands". And this fucking safe pair of hands couldn't even take blood from a patient after he had used needles all over her arms. The poor girl was in pain because she had been pricked so many times.The sad part about this issue is that this girl had a huge green vein going right down her arm - and it took me one go. It would have taken an medical student one go. I had to apologise for my incompetent colleague who everyone backed up and supported. It is though true that while I was covering for him, he was off having parties with his consultant who was grooming him to be the next consultant. You see, you have to suck up to the consultant, it makes no difference if you are crap at your job. The important trick is to develop that male camaraderie. The camaraderie that will ensure the boss overlooks all your flaws.

I was always having to apologise for doctors from abroad, who were not trained well and couldn't do their job. Sure I look upon this situation and shake my head. Mr Incompetent who by the way has a GMC warning has been given more opportunities in life than Dr India. Dr India as a British qualified graduate has a GMC sanction despite no concerns regarding patients, the foreign qualified doctor described above has a simple warning despite the fact he lies a drop of a hat. Whats worse, despite the lies, despite the warning, despite the GMC sanctions, every single Psychiatrist from the Royal College of Psychiatrists onwards back him. So essentially, Dr India cannot do locum posts in the NHS but Dr Incompetent can. Dr India has never been dishonest, Dr Incompetent has been dishonest.

Why do they back him, because they are positively discriminatory, he is a cheap doctor,who will say nothing, who will grovel to his white masters and in doing so the ethnic minority statistics are made up. As everyone knows psychiatry needs black doctors so it doesn't matter how crap they are, these doctors can be fast tracked into the system.

Recently, this doctor wrote to the General Medical Council and couldn't even spell the word "Psychiatry" correctly. He happens to be a psychiatrist.

Over the years, I suspect people look upon whistleblowers are poor little sad things who couldn't make it in medicine. I certainly know that this is the view that the Doctors Only website have. My view is this - if the NHS and its doctors want foreign cheap doctors who can't even communicate with patients then they are welcome to them. If they want to give these foreign doctors better opportunities and leave the British qualified doctors by the wayside, we can just watch and laugh while the NHS negligence bill comes in.

For avoidance of doubt, not all foreign doctors are incompetent, a lot are extremely good. The above is a personal opinion based on the people I have worked with. As a British qualified whistleblower, I have worked far harder than many other doctors but have had limited opportunities in general. I have always been fed up of covering for incompetent foreign doctors where ever I have worked in the NHS. The tasks range from having to redo their management plan, clarifying and translating issues for patients, re-reviewing patients, resigning drug charts and correcting them and the list goes on. For all that work, you get no rewards, and no thanks.

Finally, congratulations to the foreign doctor who can't speak English who is currently in a job,I could be employed for. He or she isn't there because they are better than me, they are there because I am a whistleblower and they aren't one. Edwin Borman at the General Medical Council can contemplate that.