Stupid thick bird Supplied by the MPS BMJ Careers has an amusing piece on Whistleblowing. I spotted it early today in BMJ Careers. It had interviewed my ex MPS Representative Stephanie Bown. The BMJ piece was actually written very well and had the General Medical Council and the MPS representative essentially lamenting over the state of Whistleblowing. The piece can be read here.
The MPS does not admit that they are incapable of telling the truth. The GMC does not admit that they purposefully develop a vendetta on a whistleblower and ensure they are sanctioned so their concerns are discredited. We just have to look at the case of Mr Robert Phipps to observe this. Robert won his case at the Employment Tribunal but what happened to his concerns? Fell into the black hole of the GMC where all whistleblowing concerns go?
Stephanie Bown is in the article advising on whistleblowing. She was my ex MPS Advisor during the period of whistleblowing who fibbed about representation on Employment issues and who requested concealment of the patient safety issues raised. It should be noted that Steph did not raise these issues with the Department of Health or the General Medical Council. We have to ask her why she purposefully concealed the data from the powers that be? The MPS sought no counsel advice during 1998. They did though supply me with a makeshift lawyer called James Lawson. Both were spectacularly useless.
Yes, in the end, I got myself out of the shit. Had I relied upon them, I would have been a convicted criminal at the local Magistrates Court. It just so happens that I was cleared. And believe me, it wasn't because of their hard work that I was cleared, it happened because I raised the defence of whistleblowing, gave the evidence in and told the interviewers that the Trust had scapegoated me. These were defences that Mr Lawson and Dr Bown had previously decided to conceal. I wrote about my MPS Experiences here. Defying the MPS was probably the best thing I ever did. The problem with the MPS is they can point at many things - but the fact remains that there are two reports verifying that the substantial allegations made by me about Ward 87 were all true. The MPS played no path in achieving this element of justice. Indeed, it was only due to me that the issues were investigated and reports provided. The MPS were quite happy to sit around watching people die. Now that is a important fact - while they advise on raising concerns and patient safety - they purposely decided to sit around and allow patients to be harmed.
As for Stephanie Bown, she should remember what the General Medical Council themselves told the world in the BMJ article
"Although it would be highly unlikely for a doctor to be struck off for not raising concerns, they could be penalised, she adds"
Of course, as fate has it Stephanie Bown, the doctor who did attempt to shut down and conceal the justified concerns [ verified by 2 reports] is now further advising doctors in BMJ Careers Advice on the subject of whistleblowing. This is what happens when you wear a good suit, a cross on your neck and have a posh accent. Your integrity is never questioned. Of course, the only people left to question Dr Bown's integrity is me - because I know exactly what she attempted to do and how she attempted to do it. Essentially, she attempted to shut down and silence a whistleblower. Bown doesn't talk about it anymore because she doesn't have a leg to stand on in this situation. What can she say?
Essentially, we can all conclude that she mismanaged my case. She won't admit it because she wears a cross on her neck and that appears to wash all her responsibilities away. Religion has that quaint manner of cosmetically absolving people of all their responsibilities.
Of course, she should remember that her lack of responsibility and integrity cost many lives on Ward 87 which remained open until 2005 when I got it shut down. Had she followed the correct pathway and raised the concerns on my behalf, many lives could have been saved. It is Bown who has to live with this but then Bown has no conscience because the cross has absolved her of her responsibilities to mankind. She sits around looking pretty while the rest of us maintain patient safety.
Stephanie Bown was also advisor to Saher Sadek, the infamous case where the MPS were beaten to a pulp at the Employment Tribunal and further by a Litigant in Person. Just happens to be a asian junior doctor who beat a leading QC to a pulp in all courts. Despite this, Stephanie Bown still advises the media on medical employment issues like PIDA. It is amazing that she says this
“It is a high test to gain PIDA [Public Interest Disclosure Act] protection so only the rarest of circumstances justify going straight to the media,” says Ms Bown
Lets see, PIDA is a Employment Tribunal Legislation, I thought that Ms Brown stated that the MPS did not do Employment Tribunal related issues?! If they don't do so [ as per record] then how is Ms Bown advising on it?
Of course, the MPS would say I was a disaffected junior doctor. Well, actually thats not quite right, this is a doctor who dislikes the MPS for a spectacular failure in their service. I know that had I been any other junior doctor, I would have been struck off the medical register. This is what happened to Dr Prabhu who relied on their advice. The fact remains, I was never struck off and where other whistleblowers have disappeared, this one remains to ensure that there are repeated reminders to my defence union that they were always wrong. This is done because dishonest people like the MPS have no accountability. They continue sitting in their plush offices, being paid fat cheques out of doctors subscription fees while lying to various people about the nature of their representation. We only have to observe the MPS's dishonest conduct in the Robbie Powell case to note what they are capable of.
And thankgod that I didn't rely on a cross wearing, suited silly bird whose concept of patient safety is to sit around looking pretty. Some of us have more practical concepts, don't wear a suit and can think on our feet. We do the job that the MPS cannot do.
I am surprised that Stephanie Bown has not been fired for her conduct on Ward 87 and in the case of Saher Sadek.
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