Disgraceful

I was reading The Lawyer today over lunch while munching on my ciabatta bread. I found this extract which was quite shocking really :-

"The internal complaints ­system is being undermined by an increasing public ­awareness of cases such as Dr D, which involved a village GP whose career was effectively wrecked by the ­maladministration of a futile complaint surrounding a short ­reprimand by the GP to a patient who had been rude to a nurse.

10-month inquiry followed. Seven years - and a mental breakdown on the part of the GP - later, the Health Ombudsman found that the GP had been the victim of ­”significant injustice” perpetrated by the two ­primary care trusts that dealt with the complaint.

And this is what I mean by the impact of inertia by the medical profession. It takes one minute to fall accidentally into trouble and a decade to sort the problem out. I hope Jobbing Doctor features the above to support his fellow GP. I suspect no manager was held accountable. Nothing new then.