This week three of my medical friends have been subjected to Interim Order Panels at the General Medical Council. I just feel this is outrageous. Not only are IOP's illegal but these three doctors have never had any problems with patient safety. All three have been subjected to Interim Order Panels because they are politically incorrect. Or shall we say the GMC are hounding them because they are outspoken about a number of issues. Two have been dropped by their defence union and one still has his defence union in tact.
I am upset about it because out of all the bad doctors out there who end patient lives, neglect them etc, it is only the good doctors who end up at Interim Order Panels. None of these doctors are there because of patients complaints. They are all there because their medical directors took hum bridge and sold them out to the General Medical Council. Following their initial investigation which had to be disclosed to other employers, the other employers hyper scrutinised them. Having done so, they handed the doctors back to the General Medical Council on a plate.
Their fates are uncertain and as Bad Medicine points out, at present they are constructively erased, probably unemployable and have their careers minced by the General Medical Council. Careers of course mean livelihoods. Ruining someone's livelihood is not a simple thing to be overlooked. Sadly, for the GMC, they admitted in a courtroom that employment prospects etc was not their responsibility. Of course, the GMC ought to understand that they can't "control" the world and this is not the way to behave towards good doctors.
Anyhow, we are clearly going through dangerous territory. Reports from the Society of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that the problem is more widespread.
I am really upset today for my colleagues - because they are all fighting a losing battle. I know what a losing battle it is because I have fought part of it. The Medical Act 1983 is all powerful. This makes the GMC all powerful. They abuse the words - patient safety and public interest . Soon, innocent junior doctors are going to get their heads locked in the GMC chopping block. Legally, there is little hope of recovery from these situations. The GMC have manipulated themselves into a situation where their is little chance of seeking a remedy.
I am upset about it because out of all the bad doctors out there who end patient lives, neglect them etc, it is only the good doctors who end up at Interim Order Panels. None of these doctors are there because of patients complaints. They are all there because their medical directors took hum bridge and sold them out to the General Medical Council. Following their initial investigation which had to be disclosed to other employers, the other employers hyper scrutinised them. Having done so, they handed the doctors back to the General Medical Council on a plate.
Their fates are uncertain and as Bad Medicine points out, at present they are constructively erased, probably unemployable and have their careers minced by the General Medical Council. Careers of course mean livelihoods. Ruining someone's livelihood is not a simple thing to be overlooked. Sadly, for the GMC, they admitted in a courtroom that employment prospects etc was not their responsibility. Of course, the GMC ought to understand that they can't "control" the world and this is not the way to behave towards good doctors.
Anyhow, we are clearly going through dangerous territory. Reports from the Society of Clinical Psychiatry suggest that the problem is more widespread.
I am really upset today for my colleagues - because they are all fighting a losing battle. I know what a losing battle it is because I have fought part of it. The Medical Act 1983 is all powerful. This makes the GMC all powerful. They abuse the words - patient safety and public interest . Soon, innocent junior doctors are going to get their heads locked in the GMC chopping block. Legally, there is little hope of recovery from these situations. The GMC have manipulated themselves into a situation where their is little chance of seeking a remedy.
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The GMC is out of control. There are doctors and members of the GMC who are using this organisation to destroy traditional medicine
The best hope is to rewrite medicine, and so bypass the General Medical Council and the modern regulatory apparatus of State.
In the meantime, the way these doctors is treated is diabolical and evil. A profession that is said to be devoted to the improving health, takes every opportunity to destroy it.
To translate using George Orwell's 1984 Dictionary of Newspeak 25th Edition 2009, the Department of Health becomes the Department of Death and the General Medical Council, the Specific Killing Agency
In most countries of the world, doctors are regulated direct by the Ministry/Department of Health. Instead, in the UK the GMC is meant to be 'independent' of the Department of Health which is false and farcical.
Excuse me whilst I go and melt away in a quiet corner.
The GMC have broken me, but not my spirit.
But I have bowed to the inevitable As a dissident I will have to leave Britain and medicine in the NHS the Death Service behind.
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