NHS Lawyer assisting Before Edwin Borman gets out of his crypt to crow about how great foreign doctors are, I thought I would butt in and say a few things online.
Angus Dei is clever. He is also currently featured on the BBC's website. That is because he is suave and writes some cutting edge material. He has also written a piece on the German doctor who managed to kill a 70 year old with a spectacular dose of diamorphine.
Actually, its no different from the Cambridge grad in North Staffordshire NHS Trust who injected a dose of Diamorphine 10 mg into a patient with chronic respiratory problems. The patient snuffed it and was buried. Edward was protected by his consultants and he is now a practising doctor in the NHS. Anyone reporting Edward would probably be struck down dead by the medical establishment because you just don't report Cambridge grads. And that is how no one finds out about errors. Far be it from me to criticise such practises as most people seem to be quite happy with the rates of errors in the NHS.
I don't like to diss foreign doctors but I can but be a little miffed that they are paid substantial amounts of funds to come to this country while British trained doctors like myself and my colleagues are treated shabbily by the establishment/General Medical Council. We must not forget the manner in which the government treated the hundreds of doctors represented by Remedy UK - some of whom are still suffering from the repercussions of the spectacular cock up by the main players in medicine.
I suspect that while many of us are sorry for the death of the 70 year old, we probably all feel that the Department of Health and their pointy heads deserve it. And the errors will continue to happen because establishment does not see that treating their home grown doctors well and encouraging them to work plus improving their working conditions would probably reduce the error rate considerably.
Anyhow, I am sure locums from abroad will continue to be hired by the NHS because they love wasting money and don't really care about patient deaths.
Patient death is dealt with by a pay-out. That is why lawyers now a fixture in the NHS next to untrained foreign doctors.
Angus Dei is clever. He is also currently featured on the BBC's website. That is because he is suave and writes some cutting edge material. He has also written a piece on the German doctor who managed to kill a 70 year old with a spectacular dose of diamorphine.
Actually, its no different from the Cambridge grad in North Staffordshire NHS Trust who injected a dose of Diamorphine 10 mg into a patient with chronic respiratory problems. The patient snuffed it and was buried. Edward was protected by his consultants and he is now a practising doctor in the NHS. Anyone reporting Edward would probably be struck down dead by the medical establishment because you just don't report Cambridge grads. And that is how no one finds out about errors. Far be it from me to criticise such practises as most people seem to be quite happy with the rates of errors in the NHS.
I don't like to diss foreign doctors but I can but be a little miffed that they are paid substantial amounts of funds to come to this country while British trained doctors like myself and my colleagues are treated shabbily by the establishment/General Medical Council. We must not forget the manner in which the government treated the hundreds of doctors represented by Remedy UK - some of whom are still suffering from the repercussions of the spectacular cock up by the main players in medicine.
I suspect that while many of us are sorry for the death of the 70 year old, we probably all feel that the Department of Health and their pointy heads deserve it. And the errors will continue to happen because establishment does not see that treating their home grown doctors well and encouraging them to work plus improving their working conditions would probably reduce the error rate considerably.
Anyhow, I am sure locums from abroad will continue to be hired by the NHS because they love wasting money and don't really care about patient deaths.
Patient death is dealt with by a pay-out. That is why lawyers now a fixture in the NHS next to untrained foreign doctors.
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