Everyone dies in the NHSWhistleblowing is a dangerous escapade. Had I known this in 1998, I would never have done it. Indeed, when I did it, I didn't even know it was whistleblowing. I was simply attempting to save some patients. That as I saw it was my job. I raised many concerns at the time in good faith and subsequently discovered the truth faces of the medical profession's professors. The wrath of the senior shall silence the junior. That is the rule they all worked by. Their efforts to control me had failed. And yes, I am still standing 10 years later trying to tell everyone about the state of the NHS that is costing endless lives. Is anyone listening? Probably not.
This week we see my previous haunt Selly Oak Hospital being given the Dr Foster treatment. While the world is shocked, I am not because I have always known that the NHS offerred patients substandard care. The care is universally bad but when people were told that in 1998-2000, no one believed me. Now, we have the results of turning a blind eye as I predicted many years ago. The soaring death rate is currently being featured slowly through the media.
The media appear all excited about it but in April 2000 when we protested on the subject, no media featured it. So we ask ourselves, where is the Telegaph editor who felt Ward 87 was simply about an axe to grind?
So whose fault is the high death rate? Well, there are a combination of factors, one being the attitude of those in the higher echelons of power in the UK. So I was right about everything. What use is it now? Thousands of people have died and I don't feel good about it. I feel angry that I wasn't listened to. Had I been taken seriously, deaths could have been prevented nationally. And that is a sad fact of life ie that despite all the sacrifices made by a whistleblower and I have made a few including paid the price of my medical career, nothing was ever achieved. Many were quick to criticise me but few were prepared to correct the problem.
I am aware that Professor David Brenton once wrote that I was too oversensitive to the failings of the system. Well, it is true, I did not expect to see the kind of NHS that apparently existed.
I have never accepted it and perhaps that is my fault. My colleagues though have managed to accept it, managed to earn their ounce of corn and managed to ignore the failings of the NHS. It is a national medical concept that failings in care should be ignored by doctors. Whistleblowing is culturally outlawed in the NHS. Even if good doctors tried to raise it, they would have met the same fate as me.
Professor Brenton felt that all doctors should be all grown up, overlook the failings of the system just like he did and move on. Brenton now is a aged man, I wonder when he will be admitted into a hospital. I wonder whether he will think the same things when he lies in his own feaces and urine like other patients in the NHS. I wonder if he will feel the same when he cannot feed himself and the nurses walk past him. I wonder if he will feel the same when the oxygen is not given to him by the nurses when he is gasping for breath. I wonder whether he will feel the same when the junior doctor checks her lipstick in the mirror before attending to a cardiac arrest. We rely on our seniors to be outspoken, to fight against poor care but in Professor David Brenton [ at University College London], I found a conceited man who was quick to dismiss my concerns as that of a oversensitive young doctor. I am now older and I feel the same way about David Brenton. I feel that he failed many patients and he did this because he was quite happy to ignore poor care. I could name legions of professors who neglected poor care. We can commence with Professor Elizabeth Paice, Professor John Temple etc. Naming them though will never make an ounce of difference because the media won't understand the reasons why there are such disastrous death rates. They will not understand that part of the reason stems from the inadequacy of the profession's seniors who spent more time wallowing in their own self importance than they do holding the system to account.
As for Professor Rod Griffiths, the other rogue of the Midlands Public Health Department, I wonder what he has to say about the catastrophic status of the Midlands hospitals. He will deny all responsibility as he always does. I suspect all these old men of medicine have private healthcare plans but I have worked in private hospitals and the care is not much better. All these old men of medicine are way past 65. They are closer to death than someone like me. I often wonder what those closer to death think about the current system. I often wonder whether they will gasp their last breath in hospital and say "We were wrong, we should have done something because if we had done something, even we could have been saved". Griffiths though has always been a deluded man when it comes to addressing poor care. For years, he probably concealed poor care just like Ward 87. Now that the shit has hit the fan and he has retired, Griffiths will say " What me? Of course, it has nothing to do with me, I am retired". We have to then ask the question - how many years have patients been dying for? Well, in 1998, the Midlands Hospitals were extremely bad. Now, I suspect the situation has worsened due to a series of cover-ups. I don't ever recall Professor Griffiths doing anything useful during his time in office.
These are the professors who relish the control over life and death. This is because they love the supreme power that comes with control. Medicine is about power not about patient safety. That is how it has been developed by those who are the leading movers and shakers in the medical fraternity.
This week we see my previous haunt Selly Oak Hospital being given the Dr Foster treatment. While the world is shocked, I am not because I have always known that the NHS offerred patients substandard care. The care is universally bad but when people were told that in 1998-2000, no one believed me. Now, we have the results of turning a blind eye as I predicted many years ago. The soaring death rate is currently being featured slowly through the media.
The media appear all excited about it but in April 2000 when we protested on the subject, no media featured it. So we ask ourselves, where is the Telegaph editor who felt Ward 87 was simply about an axe to grind?
So whose fault is the high death rate? Well, there are a combination of factors, one being the attitude of those in the higher echelons of power in the UK. So I was right about everything. What use is it now? Thousands of people have died and I don't feel good about it. I feel angry that I wasn't listened to. Had I been taken seriously, deaths could have been prevented nationally. And that is a sad fact of life ie that despite all the sacrifices made by a whistleblower and I have made a few including paid the price of my medical career, nothing was ever achieved. Many were quick to criticise me but few were prepared to correct the problem.
I am aware that Professor David Brenton once wrote that I was too oversensitive to the failings of the system. Well, it is true, I did not expect to see the kind of NHS that apparently existed.
I have never accepted it and perhaps that is my fault. My colleagues though have managed to accept it, managed to earn their ounce of corn and managed to ignore the failings of the NHS. It is a national medical concept that failings in care should be ignored by doctors. Whistleblowing is culturally outlawed in the NHS. Even if good doctors tried to raise it, they would have met the same fate as me.
Professor Brenton felt that all doctors should be all grown up, overlook the failings of the system just like he did and move on. Brenton now is a aged man, I wonder when he will be admitted into a hospital. I wonder whether he will think the same things when he lies in his own feaces and urine like other patients in the NHS. I wonder if he will feel the same when he cannot feed himself and the nurses walk past him. I wonder if he will feel the same when the oxygen is not given to him by the nurses when he is gasping for breath. I wonder whether he will feel the same when the junior doctor checks her lipstick in the mirror before attending to a cardiac arrest. We rely on our seniors to be outspoken, to fight against poor care but in Professor David Brenton [ at University College London], I found a conceited man who was quick to dismiss my concerns as that of a oversensitive young doctor. I am now older and I feel the same way about David Brenton. I feel that he failed many patients and he did this because he was quite happy to ignore poor care. I could name legions of professors who neglected poor care. We can commence with Professor Elizabeth Paice, Professor John Temple etc. Naming them though will never make an ounce of difference because the media won't understand the reasons why there are such disastrous death rates. They will not understand that part of the reason stems from the inadequacy of the profession's seniors who spent more time wallowing in their own self importance than they do holding the system to account.
As for Professor Rod Griffiths, the other rogue of the Midlands Public Health Department, I wonder what he has to say about the catastrophic status of the Midlands hospitals. He will deny all responsibility as he always does. I suspect all these old men of medicine have private healthcare plans but I have worked in private hospitals and the care is not much better. All these old men of medicine are way past 65. They are closer to death than someone like me. I often wonder what those closer to death think about the current system. I often wonder whether they will gasp their last breath in hospital and say "We were wrong, we should have done something because if we had done something, even we could have been saved". Griffiths though has always been a deluded man when it comes to addressing poor care. For years, he probably concealed poor care just like Ward 87. Now that the shit has hit the fan and he has retired, Griffiths will say " What me? Of course, it has nothing to do with me, I am retired". We have to then ask the question - how many years have patients been dying for? Well, in 1998, the Midlands Hospitals were extremely bad. Now, I suspect the situation has worsened due to a series of cover-ups. I don't ever recall Professor Griffiths doing anything useful during his time in office.
There is limited justice in the world of medicine. Karma afterall comes to all those who travel the path of the dark side. The Dark Side though is tempting for these elderly doctors of medicine. They often convince themselves that they have the wisdom that age is supposed to bring. They brush aside the younger generation, dimissing our concerns as "naive". When we are proven to be right, none of them have a thing to say about it. They remain tightlipped publicly, only whispering away within closed doors.
Sadly, the grandees of medicine have often lost their way from the path of the truth or justice. Their judgment has been clouded by the influence of the medical fraternity. Patients die, doctors remain silent. Those who teach them to remain silent are the elderly professors of medicine.
Sadly, the grandees of medicine have often lost their way from the path of the truth or justice. Their judgment has been clouded by the influence of the medical fraternity. Patients die, doctors remain silent. Those who teach them to remain silent are the elderly professors of medicine.
These are the professors who relish the control over life and death. This is because they love the supreme power that comes with control. Medicine is about power not about patient safety. That is how it has been developed by those who are the leading movers and shakers in the medical fraternity.
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