Well done Colin. As everyone knows, my favourite actor is Colin Firth. I just love Colin Firth. He is the kind of guy that has always made me forget the GMC, forget all about writing radical material and forget most things. Indeed, I might as well have shaken my head and emptied by brain! I first watched Colin in Bridget Jones during a hellish workload week with R Pal v GMC 2004.
It would be wonderful if I could simply stare at him for days. Sadly, over the last decade of scrapping with the General Medical Council, I have never had the right kind of barrister representing me. None have looked like Mark Darcy. They have all been rather serious men with little in the way of a sense of humour. None have bought me lunch. Even Robert Jay QC failed to purchase a bagel or two. Such a disaster when you discover that your lawyer cannot even get you Tescos New York Bagel. All of us watched while the lawyers greedily ate their own food. Lawyers are greedy people - whether its food or money, it doesn't make much difference. Greed is like a religion to them and money becomes their God.
Secondly, the GMC have failed to hire anyone who looked like Mark Darcy. I had great hopes for Mark Shaw QC. I was told by Arpad Toth that Shaw was not bad. This increased my expectations of Shaw.
When the barrister appeared, I spent ages staring at him. One shouldn't really stare at crumpled men but you just can't help staring when you try and figure out why he has such a hunched back. Everything appeared deformed in some way - his thought pattern, his back, his curled lip, his wig. For some reason, it had all gone wrong. The amusing part is that Shaw caught me staring at him and felt terribly sheepish about it. It is important to stare at those who are so odd in many ways. Staring is a bad habit but important when you want to describe a person in a book. I referred to him privately under many times - Rumplestilskin or my favourite which is Mr Crumplechops. These names are because he takes himself so seriously but has no idea how the rest of the world perceives him. Insight is not Crumplechop's strong point.I can see why the Attorney General hires him.
This stooped gait and bad posture is something I have noticed in barristers representing the General Medical Council. My colleague Dr Pakistan who has been taken off the shop floor may be able to diagnose this back problem in Mark Shaw. Dr Pakistan is better at orthopaedics than me. Although, my time at Stanmore during my BSc year taught me a few things about biomechanics. Enough to calculate the angles of Mark Shaw's stooped gait anyway.
Mark Shaw QC sadly was no Colin Firth and it was a huge disappointment for me. I came home and rang Arpad and whinged mightily about the fact that even in this last hearing, the GMC had failed in hiring a dashing barrister. I moaned that all casinos have good looking men - what happened to the RCJ? The judge appeared sporting his rather large beak and Shaw just sported his hooked nose.
Dr Pakistan recently showed me the cost schedule for Mark Shaw QC. Shaw gets paid for destroying doctors livelihoods. I have often dubbed him as the Medical Assassinator. I nearly fell of my chair at his cost schedule though. Each swish of his gown must cost around £100 per millisecond. It is almost as much as Colin Firth gets paid but Colin earns an honest living.
Today, I was really pleased to see Colin Firth winning the BAFTA. I have always wanted him to win an award because he is such a versatile actor and I appear to have watched everything he has ever starred in. Here is hoping that one day Colin reads this and sends me a signed picture that I can hang up on my wall. As various barristers have let me down in their looks, I have to revert to the original dapper fictional barrister - Mark Darcy. At £1000/hour plus VAT, at least Mark Darcy is a sexpot and lets face it, quality is vital especially when emptying your bank account!
It would be wonderful if I could simply stare at him for days. Sadly, over the last decade of scrapping with the General Medical Council, I have never had the right kind of barrister representing me. None have looked like Mark Darcy. They have all been rather serious men with little in the way of a sense of humour. None have bought me lunch. Even Robert Jay QC failed to purchase a bagel or two. Such a disaster when you discover that your lawyer cannot even get you Tescos New York Bagel. All of us watched while the lawyers greedily ate their own food. Lawyers are greedy people - whether its food or money, it doesn't make much difference. Greed is like a religion to them and money becomes their God.
Secondly, the GMC have failed to hire anyone who looked like Mark Darcy. I had great hopes for Mark Shaw QC. I was told by Arpad Toth that Shaw was not bad. This increased my expectations of Shaw.
When the barrister appeared, I spent ages staring at him. One shouldn't really stare at crumpled men but you just can't help staring when you try and figure out why he has such a hunched back. Everything appeared deformed in some way - his thought pattern, his back, his curled lip, his wig. For some reason, it had all gone wrong. The amusing part is that Shaw caught me staring at him and felt terribly sheepish about it. It is important to stare at those who are so odd in many ways. Staring is a bad habit but important when you want to describe a person in a book. I referred to him privately under many times - Rumplestilskin or my favourite which is Mr Crumplechops. These names are because he takes himself so seriously but has no idea how the rest of the world perceives him. Insight is not Crumplechop's strong point.I can see why the Attorney General hires him.
This stooped gait and bad posture is something I have noticed in barristers representing the General Medical Council. My colleague Dr Pakistan who has been taken off the shop floor may be able to diagnose this back problem in Mark Shaw. Dr Pakistan is better at orthopaedics than me. Although, my time at Stanmore during my BSc year taught me a few things about biomechanics. Enough to calculate the angles of Mark Shaw's stooped gait anyway.
Mark Shaw QC sadly was no Colin Firth and it was a huge disappointment for me. I came home and rang Arpad and whinged mightily about the fact that even in this last hearing, the GMC had failed in hiring a dashing barrister. I moaned that all casinos have good looking men - what happened to the RCJ? The judge appeared sporting his rather large beak and Shaw just sported his hooked nose.
Dr Pakistan recently showed me the cost schedule for Mark Shaw QC. Shaw gets paid for destroying doctors livelihoods. I have often dubbed him as the Medical Assassinator. I nearly fell of my chair at his cost schedule though. Each swish of his gown must cost around £100 per millisecond. It is almost as much as Colin Firth gets paid but Colin earns an honest living.
Today, I was really pleased to see Colin Firth winning the BAFTA. I have always wanted him to win an award because he is such a versatile actor and I appear to have watched everything he has ever starred in. Here is hoping that one day Colin reads this and sends me a signed picture that I can hang up on my wall. As various barristers have let me down in their looks, I have to revert to the original dapper fictional barrister - Mark Darcy. At £1000/hour plus VAT, at least Mark Darcy is a sexpot and lets face it, quality is vital especially when emptying your bank account!
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