Saturday, 12 December 2009

Count Rubin Spanks the Whistleblower

Count Rubin
" A compromising position"

Part of the General Medical Council's modus operandi is to teach whistleblowers a lesson they will never forget. I know what the GMC had planned for me but their failure to execute this hapless plan is now embarrassingly obvious for them. This is what they had planned for me. The Discreet Inquiry was all about saying my concerns were apparently unfounded [ while they concealed the two reports from North Staffordshire NHS Trust] and their plan was to pull the matter to hearing to ensure I was suspended or struck off. Of course, this has been their modus operandi for all whistleblowers for many years. This is why there has not been any accountability. The GMC has been the puppy dog of the Trusts gruffing at the right time and carrying out assasinations quietly. Of course, a doctor doesn't have to die to be assasinated. They just have to walk like the living dead. Of course, having tried to do this to me, the GMC found themselves under quite a heavy internet onslaught hence their continual obsession with visiting these websites and blogs on a daily basis.

A few weeks ago, I talked about Count Rubin who lied about whistleblowers. This is what GMC Chair Count Rubin told the British Medical Journal while flapping his rather large bat wings.

"Raising Concerns (2006) makes clear that provided doctors have been honest, raising a concern is justified even if it turns out to be groundless"
Of course, Professor Rubin is a toothy lying old bat. I say that because a few weeks after this statement in the British Medical Journal, the General Medical Council found that a whistleblower called Dr Korashi was guilty of misconduct. His crime was to raise concerns about a Dr A. Apparently, South Wales Police could find no case to answer. Then we all know how hapless South Wales Police really are. I wrote about them some months ago. A summary can be read here.

Anyway, because there was no case to answer, the General Medical Council didn't look into Dr A - this is despite the Royal College of Surgeon's findings that he was unqualified to do his job. As was mentioned yesterday in the Guardian, the GMC turned their gaze to the whistleblower. Dr Korashi has been vilified and humiliated. Only part of his story has been featured in the media.

This is what the panel stated

"The panel's ruling stated it accepted Dr Korashi's clinical competence had never been in question and he had been "motivated by concerns of patient safety".

It stated: "However, it is of the view that you still need to address aspects of your conduct in relation to working with others and your approach to protecting patient safety."

He was found guilty of misconduct and had conditions placed on his registration. So what is the value of Count Rubin's crowings in the BMJ? He has misled the public and essentially lied to them. It shows us that the GMC's PR machine will say one thing and their machine room will ensure the opposite is done. They hope of course that the papers do not put 2 and 2 together and we can see that the media have presented the GMC's press release. We haven't actually been given Korashi's side of the tale.

Rubin would not call it lying through his fangs but there is no other word we can use. The General Medical Council has a pattern of attacking whistleblowers. The GMC lulls the medical profession and the public into a false sense of security then pounces on the whistleblowers via the back door. I remain unimpressed with the General Medical Council's two faced behaviour. They are incapable of understanding the problems faced by whistleblowers and often take part in sham peer reviews and mobbing. I once called the GMC an abuser. I stand by that.




1 comments:

Dr Liz Miller said...

"toothy lying old bat" ROFL

Yes and with real blood on his hands. In 2004 9 of 215 doctors died whilst under General Medical Council Supervision. In that year, there were a further 3 deaths following Interim Orders Panel hearings.


With that record, would you want the GMC to babysit your children? I think not!

My sources tell me that the General Medical Council is being investigated in order to understanding better what happens to doctors after they have come before a Fitness to Practice. Whether the GMC provides the information to the investigating organisation is uncertain.

The purpose and outcome of this investigation is also not clear. Nonetheless, I understand the first steps towards setting up the inquiry are under way.

Of course, if too much is made public about the impending inquiry, there is a real threat that the GMC will not allow the investigation to continue. Nonetheless, the signs look hopeful that the GMC is concerned to look again at what happens to doctors following "treatment" by its Fitness to Practice panels.

Hopefully, as a result of this inquiry, more data will be made public and it will be possible to evaluate whether or not the GMC has any real insight into its behaviour