Medical Mobbing

Oh Yeah.
Well, Some Whistleblowers End up Stamping on Your Toes - and hard.

Hospital Doctor has recently featured the issue of Mobbing. Doctors4Justice provides a good list of links. Neither provide a solution to mobbing at all.

Mobbing in the medical arena is known as Sham Peer Review. Huntoon describes it very well indeed.

This is the typical manner of Sham Peer Review ie Medical Mobbing

"Facing superior power and numbers, the targeted physician soon understands that he is the prey and the hunt is on. The final attack is often unleashed quite suddenly and with great fury. The resultant shock and awe often causes a sudden loss of energy and a mental numbness that impairs the physician victim’s ability to defend himself effectively. This often further excites the predators as the deer stands motionless, caught in the headlights. Shock and awe is followed quickly by denial and disbelief.

This is frequently accompanied by a strong belief that the truth will save the victim and set him free. Meanwhile, the stigma attached to mere allegations of wrongdoing produces an intended isolation of the targeted physician. As a result, the physician victim often shuns contact with colleagues, further assisting the predators in cutting the prey out from the herd in preparation for the kill.

At this stage, alone and isolated, facing almost certain demise, extreme fear sets in. How will the physician provide for his spouse and children? How will he cope with the bills that are mounting up now that the attack has stopped cash flow?How will he survive? Constantly living in an adrenaline-soaked fight-or-flight state further depletes the victim’s energy and is often accompanied by significant depression, complete with severe sleep disturbance (too much or too little), weight loss, and a pervasive feeling of helplessness and hopelessness. The risk of “death by stress” or suicide is very real at this stage"

I should say that over the years, I have been subject to medical mobbing. My case meets all the criteria set for medical mobbing. It commenced in North Staffordshire NHS Trust when the Trust told the world that there was no evidence basis to my concerns. Having lied to the media [ and oh yes, I have the press release from Hospital To Stoke Radio], this mode of Sham Peer Review continued to the GMC.

Despite 2 internal Trust reports verifying that I was indeed right, the GMC hired Professor Rod Griffiths to say that there was no evidential basis to my concerns and I must therefore be mentally deranged. The two reports were concealed from me and a decade later, the full report has never been released. They only managed to release a redacted report.

Griffiths was caught with his pants down, subjected to a four year investigation by the GMC and because the GMC itself was involved in the mobbing, they let Professor Griffiths go. Of course, the GMC made some comments that were designed to placate me but in the end there was no accountability for a man who cost the lives of those on Ward 87, who smeared mud onto my name, who damaged my employment prospects irreparably and a man who consistently lied to the General Medical Council on many aspects of Ward 87. A master of word play, Professor Rod Griffiths is a silent and deadly mobber. The GMC was asked to correct his Sham study following the disclosure of the 1999 and 2001 reports. A year ago, they stated that they would consider it but do not have the guts to respond.

After whistleblowing, it was the free season for everyone else to join in the free party of mobbing. The latest being Worcestershire NHS Trust. It is quite easy, they discover you are a whistleblower and sidle up to the GMC to assist them in your downfall. The fact they miss out is that one of these days, their favours to the GMC will reverse onto them much like a fireball of paper.

Huntoon in his paper above provides no solution to mobbing. Actually no one has a solution to Medical Mobbing. Well, I have discovered an excellent solution. I recognized what was happening to me in about 2003. In that year, I also decided that sitting around being a good little girl wasn't going to do me any good. It was at that point that I discovered the perfect way to retaliate. My method of retaliation is developed from the Chinese way of battle tactics. You do your research to perfection, you plan your mode of action, you then attack using the same tactics used on you.

Everything done onto you should be reversed back on your attacker but this time with 10 fold magnified power. Indeed, this is how I have conducted myself for a while - I am free from mobbing now. I think I have survived relatively well - because I have never been sanctioned [ as the mobbers would have wished] and any criticism of me happens in underground whispers because few have the guts to face me head on.

Hardly anyone is prepared to challenge the issues around Ward 87. They all pathetically say "well it's all too late now" and make some snide remarks about my demeanor. Well, I am neither interested in comments about my demeanor nor am I interested in the incompetence of all authorities within the UK. I am though interested in being free to lead my life - free from mobbing. The decade spent in medicine can be said to be some of the worst years of my entire life.

It is a well known fact that the General Medical Council is used as a mobbing tool for many doctors that Trusts dislike. The GMC as a mobber is a dangerzone because this regulatory body has the resources and lawyers to assassinate you. The GMC was enlisted into colluding with North Staffordshire NHS Trust and were quite happy to act as Mobber by proxy. As the GMC have found though, this junior doctor hasn't gone away quietly.

I believe the GMC assume that I make a number of complaints for fun because I have nothing better to do. Well, everything I have always done is a tactical move in what I need to achieve. I figured, if Trusts used the GMC as a mobbing tool then so could I.

I have always achieved what I have set out to do. A good tactician uses all that is available to them as their weapons of mass destruction in the case of Medical Mobbing. And this sounds a little rabid but when you are mid Medical Mobbing and being mobbed from all directions - you do what you have to do in self defense.

I am though a survivor of quite severe mobbing in terms of the Sham Peer Review conducted on me. I think recovery is difficult but not impossible. I believe my only problem these days lies in the fact that I overwork and have no idea how to rest. It is just a minor remnant after 6 years of retaliation tactics. It is a fact of life, no human being can sustain long term mobbing. This is also a fact that everyone must understand as a limitation of ones self as a human being. I suspect a second minor issue is my intolerance for people I dislike. It is probably because I have this belief that life is too short to fill it with pointless people. Mobbing makes you an independent soul. While others have the desire for people or to please those around them, I don't.

If your aim is to retaliate - do it without emotion and with absolute precision to your arguments. Everyone should remember, through each mode of action raised- whether it is by complaints or whatever - a new piece of information will come your way. It is with that new piece of information that you can progress forward.

In my case, the massive four year complaint against Professor Griffiths forced the GMC, the Department of Health and the Trust to hand over the 2001 Reports about me or at least tell me that reports existed that verified by concerns were correct. It was at that point, my fortunes turned around. Without that complaint, I never would have been cleared.

Professor Griffiths had nothing more to say because the pathetic little senile old bat from the Labour Government creepily tried to placate me by saying that what I had done had changed the DNR policies in 2000 via the Department of Health. Well, big deal eh. Having mobbed me, tried to damage my employment prospects, having strategically mounted a character assassinating campaign against me, he makes noises to try and placate me! Griffiths and his Department of Health cronies are responsible for untold damage through the files there. Many admitted they wanted to "set an example" using me.

The GMC made the excuse that Griffiths had " suddenly retired" and prosecution would not be in the interests of the public. Of course, no one asked the public this question. By using these tactics, the authorities have shut the issue down. Of course, unfortunately for them, it isn't quite shut down. Their efforts to assassinate my reputation within the media is something they do with glee. Of course, I am fully aware that the media refuse to feature the issues of Ward 87. It isn't my loss because those who act malevolently often have a equally disastrous future ahead of them. The issue isn't about Dr Rita Pal, it is about a Ward that the UK neglected and innocent people died - but no one found out why. The problem with those who feed the media with rubbish and the media itself - is that it focusses on the manufactured persona of Rita Pal as opposed to the actual facts of the case. It is a very easy and clever way to distract journalists from the actual evidence base that affects UK healthcare.

North Staffordshire NHS Trust have nothing to say either because they look utterly stupid 10 years later. Having mobbed me as a group, no one was held accountable despite the manner in which they had attempted to victimise me. Their efforts to leave me for dead didn't work of course because at each point in the future, they will be the ones under the microscope. They have no answers to their misdemeanors.

The GMC remains broadly silent stuttering each time someone asks them about Ward 87. The Department of Health has gagged itself on these subjects because again they have nothing to say. The same goes for every single Member of Parliament approached on this. Each party has nothing left to say or any solutions. The Health Commission avoids the issue completely. You start talking to them about 1998 -2005 and they quote 2005-2008 as the years that have no concern.

Each finds it extremely difficult to understand why I am not in a corner squealing away like a victim. What am I supposed to do - cry about it? I suppose that is what every single whistleblower is supposed to do - be a victim then moan to the media about how the Trust is "Picking on them". Well, you either do that or you either get equal.

I got equal - because the world does not have a solution to medical mobbing - only the whistleblower in the thick of it is intelligent enough to develop a strategic maneuver to defend themselves. The bottom line - you either develop a solution or your sink. The fact is no one is going to develop a solution for you. They may offer you tea and sympathy but this isn't a solution. Of course, there are always side effects to developing an anti mobbing plan and executing it.

Because the rest of the world [ particularly journalists] do not have the depth to understand what you are doing - it is perceived as odd behavior or making trouble or a campaign of some kind. Few will consider it a defense to mass mobbing. And no one can persuade a straight line thinker about a defense to mobbing which requires lateral thought. I have never tried to persuade a straight lined thinker of my own development of a defense to mobbing.

I think this defense is very effective. It is tried and tested many many times over. It is simply that most victims will quite happily hope that some white knight will come and save them. Of course, there are no white knights in the world. Those who do not understand this methodology conceptually will always make judgments. That is what people who are shortsighted do. That I believe is probably the only minor side effect - but then after you have been through medical mobbing and survived well, people who lack depth mean nothing. Their opinions are also brushed off in a few seconds. One simply has to pity them for their lack of understanding about complex matters and move onto more interesting things.

Don't for one minute think that Members of Parliament have enough balls to even resolve the problems at all. Most may have been educated in Eton - but they have the problem solving ability of a small pot bellied pig. It involves snouting in the trough and making excuses for said snouting. I make that comment of leaders of all parties who have been next to useless in my case although they do make interesting supportive noises while doing nothing constructive.