Dedicated to Neil Marshall :)
As we progress on with normal life, we all have to consider a number of issues. Firstly, do we take the GMC seriously and secondly is it better just to watch a Monty Python sketch or a Interim Order Panel Hearing at the GMC?
As most people understand, I have never taken the GMC seriously. Ever since I was in my mid twenties, I have always compared them to a good comedy. Sadly, this has not gone down well with anyone including the GMC who take themselves far too seriously.
Liz Miller and I nick named Blake Dobson, Dobbin. Dobbin was a lovely horse on a kids TV show we used to watch as hobbits. We both know and think Dobbin is cute and lovely. He is much like a nice teddy bear. Liz is correct really. I have a lot of time for Dobbin even though Dobbin is really irritated by me. Who can blame him?
I am solely responsible for nick naming Mr Neil Marshall of the GMC as Marshie Pops. Indeed, this is what I refer to him as when discussing his documentation or his views. The truth is Marshie and I go back a long time. I find him highly amusing in an interesting way. Marshie is a serious man with little or no sense of humour. What he cannot understand is why I have these normal periods of complete airheadish behaviour yet I can often outargue many of the GMC's lawyers. Marshie has never been able to understand who I am or where I come from. It really eats him up that I was right about Ward 87. He has struggled to accept the evidence :) possibly because he was part of the spaghetti western involved when Ward 87 landed in GMC Towers.
Marshie is an antique. He has lived in the General Medical Council since its inception - he was probably a fly on the wall in the 1800s. He has done every job under the planet there. Taking the GMC dustbins out and hiding them is probably his biggest claim to fame. These dustbins are often filled with skeletons. Some of them are doctors apparently. Perhaps he has even made Bagels for Professor Rubin. Who knows. Rumour has it that he is extremely good at shining bald heads until they sparkle. Catto may well vouch for Marshall's excellent workmanship.
Since the sharp exit of Anna Neill following her own airhead days on R v GMC Ex Parte Pal and R v GMC Ex Parte Remedy UK, Marshie has decided to take his prime spot as Assistant Registrar. This means, Marshie has to start reading. Reading is difficult for any GMC employee.
Marshie and I often have lots of discussions, they range from blazing fights to rational debates. Marshie has threatened to block my emails, threatened to tell me off etc etc. I just consider it to be a period of the male menopause and simply continue. Marshall likes to be my dad essentially. He might get more results if he just settled down to accepting that I am intelligent, I know my stuff and I am often right :) [ and modest].
Marshie is convinced that I want to bring the GMC down. Of course, I had to dispel this myth. Why would I want to get rid of a body that provides me with more entertainment than the Monty Python movies?
Marshie has known me for about a decade now. He often wonders why I just don't go away and hide somewhere. I have often compared Marshie Pops to Topol in Fiddler of the Roof. He likes to be the papa and he loves Tradition. Marshie tries to uphold the old guard values. Even when the world of the GMC is falling apart, Marshie will be there telling us that everything we think just isn't true and that the GMC is a example of honesty, truth and justice. Marshie often reminds me of a man trying his best to hold together a crumbling building. Tradition is vital. Supreme control is the GMC's modus operandi. This is how they become so successful at being despots.
The problem with Marshie is that he tries so hard to be nice but we all know he is just a toad with a GMC designed ego. Marshie tries to exert some element of control but it deteriorates into a slanging match. Through these matches, Marshie and I understand a few elements about the argument I am trying to raise. I have this belief, even after all the arguments, if one fact about doctors or patients rights were to be understood by the GMC then that would be a step in the right direction forward. The GMC is capable of so much good yet it does so little. This is its problem.
Anyhow, this was a Marshie special quote. Those who have faced the Interim Order Panel may like to comment on his last sentence.
As most people understand, I have never taken the GMC seriously. Ever since I was in my mid twenties, I have always compared them to a good comedy. Sadly, this has not gone down well with anyone including the GMC who take themselves far too seriously.
Liz Miller and I nick named Blake Dobson, Dobbin. Dobbin was a lovely horse on a kids TV show we used to watch as hobbits. We both know and think Dobbin is cute and lovely. He is much like a nice teddy bear. Liz is correct really. I have a lot of time for Dobbin even though Dobbin is really irritated by me. Who can blame him?
I am solely responsible for nick naming Mr Neil Marshall of the GMC as Marshie Pops. Indeed, this is what I refer to him as when discussing his documentation or his views. The truth is Marshie and I go back a long time. I find him highly amusing in an interesting way. Marshie is a serious man with little or no sense of humour. What he cannot understand is why I have these normal periods of complete airheadish behaviour yet I can often outargue many of the GMC's lawyers. Marshie has never been able to understand who I am or where I come from. It really eats him up that I was right about Ward 87. He has struggled to accept the evidence :) possibly because he was part of the spaghetti western involved when Ward 87 landed in GMC Towers.
Marshie is an antique. He has lived in the General Medical Council since its inception - he was probably a fly on the wall in the 1800s. He has done every job under the planet there. Taking the GMC dustbins out and hiding them is probably his biggest claim to fame. These dustbins are often filled with skeletons. Some of them are doctors apparently. Perhaps he has even made Bagels for Professor Rubin. Who knows. Rumour has it that he is extremely good at shining bald heads until they sparkle. Catto may well vouch for Marshall's excellent workmanship.
Since the sharp exit of Anna Neill following her own airhead days on R v GMC Ex Parte Pal and R v GMC Ex Parte Remedy UK, Marshie has decided to take his prime spot as Assistant Registrar. This means, Marshie has to start reading. Reading is difficult for any GMC employee.
Marshie and I often have lots of discussions, they range from blazing fights to rational debates. Marshie has threatened to block my emails, threatened to tell me off etc etc. I just consider it to be a period of the male menopause and simply continue. Marshall likes to be my dad essentially. He might get more results if he just settled down to accepting that I am intelligent, I know my stuff and I am often right :) [ and modest].
Marshie is convinced that I want to bring the GMC down. Of course, I had to dispel this myth. Why would I want to get rid of a body that provides me with more entertainment than the Monty Python movies?
Marshie has known me for about a decade now. He often wonders why I just don't go away and hide somewhere. I have often compared Marshie Pops to Topol in Fiddler of the Roof. He likes to be the papa and he loves Tradition. Marshie tries to uphold the old guard values. Even when the world of the GMC is falling apart, Marshie will be there telling us that everything we think just isn't true and that the GMC is a example of honesty, truth and justice. Marshie often reminds me of a man trying his best to hold together a crumbling building. Tradition is vital. Supreme control is the GMC's modus operandi. This is how they become so successful at being despots.
The problem with Marshie is that he tries so hard to be nice but we all know he is just a toad with a GMC designed ego. Marshie tries to exert some element of control but it deteriorates into a slanging match. Through these matches, Marshie and I understand a few elements about the argument I am trying to raise. I have this belief, even after all the arguments, if one fact about doctors or patients rights were to be understood by the GMC then that would be a step in the right direction forward. The GMC is capable of so much good yet it does so little. This is its problem.
Anyhow, this was a Marshie special quote. Those who have faced the Interim Order Panel may like to comment on his last sentence.
"You are also aware that Panel hearings are, in the main, held in public – and the IOP hearings are held in public if the doctor requests it. How, in that context, we could conduct unjustified ‘witch hunts’ based entirely on allegations made by ‘crackpots’ (I use your term) is beyond me. Or perhaps, in the cases to which you refer, you are not aware of the GMC’s case in full? Even if we were to put a doctor before a Panel unjustifiably and without reasonable grounds, the Panel makes a decision – and that decision can be challenged in the Courts. I think doctors facing up to our procedures, although such an experience is of course stressful, are reasonably well protected in terms of their rights to a fair hearing and an opportunity to present their case". Neil Marshall 28 April 2010 11:58
1 comments:
"One of the main techniques for breaking morale through a strategy of terror consists in
exactly this tactic--keep the person hazy as to where he stands and just what he may
expect. In addition, if frequent vacillations between severe disciplinary measures and
promises of good treatment together with the spreading of contradictory news, make the
cognitive structure of this situation utterly unclear, then the individual may cease even to
know a particular plan would lead toward or away from his goal. Under these conditions
even those individuals who have definite goals and are ready to take risks are paralyzed
by severe inner conflict in regard to what to do."
This is the guiding principle of the GMC and the Health Gulag archipelago.
This is why that poor girl hanged herself She realised what the GMC were upto and was determined to practice and realised that in order to do so she would have to dance with the devil and that wasnt going to happen.
Deborah You are sorely missed
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