They're back for SarahI am not proud of what happened in R v GMC Ex Parte Pal. Due to a spectacular failure by Collins J, the GMC was given the license to kill any doctor they wished. I felt like shaking the judge and shouting "what the hell are you doing to all these innocent doctors". OK, so the judge hated me - but because that overwhelmed him, he just didn't see what the case law was doing to other doctors. Now there is no challenging this case law. It is there for the GMC to use. They do use it frequently to catch whoever they want to.
The case law lowered the standard required for a complaint to be "taken up" i.e all that was needed was for the matter to be capable of "misconduct" and as misconduct has no definition, it is open season for the General Medical Council to drag that matter to an Interim Order Panel.
Amongst the victims is Dr Sarah Myhill. I cannot explain the lowering of the standards to Sarah. I cannot explain the fact that the patient doesn't have to have complained. Anyone can complain to the GMC about anything. Sarah is a lovely lady but she doesn't yet understand that the GMC's powers are now supreme. There is no defeating them in or out of court. I told Sarah a few months ago that the GMC would be trailing after her again. I suspect her team felt that the last series of mobbing episodes would be the last. I knew it was just the beginning of the hell the GMC would put her through.
The General Medical Council have dragged Sarah to an Interim Order Panel now. Please read her website here for more details. This signifies danger. Even if she beats the IOP, they will move her to the Conduct Proceedings. Then it will be a case of catch 22. It becomes a rotational issue where the GMC picks one thing after another and drags her down again and again. The question is, how long does this go on for? The most positive issue about Sarah is that she fights well. She also knows that publicity is a great weapon of mass GMC destruction. If they take down Sarah, her patients will take the GMC down with her. Sarah understands that to survive, one must use the weapon of publicity. Most doctors do not understand that and sit cowering and shivering in their own bunny vac waiting for some hero to save them.
I had feared this for a long time. My worst fears have now come true. It is a sad fact of life that few in the medical profession backed up or supported R v GMC Ex Parte Pal and now the case is waiting to kill their livelihoods and there is nothing we can do about it.
The case law lowered the standard required for a complaint to be "taken up" i.e all that was needed was for the matter to be capable of "misconduct" and as misconduct has no definition, it is open season for the General Medical Council to drag that matter to an Interim Order Panel.
Amongst the victims is Dr Sarah Myhill. I cannot explain the lowering of the standards to Sarah. I cannot explain the fact that the patient doesn't have to have complained. Anyone can complain to the GMC about anything. Sarah is a lovely lady but she doesn't yet understand that the GMC's powers are now supreme. There is no defeating them in or out of court. I told Sarah a few months ago that the GMC would be trailing after her again. I suspect her team felt that the last series of mobbing episodes would be the last. I knew it was just the beginning of the hell the GMC would put her through.
The General Medical Council have dragged Sarah to an Interim Order Panel now. Please read her website here for more details. This signifies danger. Even if she beats the IOP, they will move her to the Conduct Proceedings. Then it will be a case of catch 22. It becomes a rotational issue where the GMC picks one thing after another and drags her down again and again. The question is, how long does this go on for? The most positive issue about Sarah is that she fights well. She also knows that publicity is a great weapon of mass GMC destruction. If they take down Sarah, her patients will take the GMC down with her. Sarah understands that to survive, one must use the weapon of publicity. Most doctors do not understand that and sit cowering and shivering in their own bunny vac waiting for some hero to save them.
I had feared this for a long time. My worst fears have now come true. It is a sad fact of life that few in the medical profession backed up or supported R v GMC Ex Parte Pal and now the case is waiting to kill their livelihoods and there is nothing we can do about it.
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