Meanwhile at Worcesterwitz Towers - Dr Steve Choong has left the GMC

Too many Dim Sums

Previously on Ward 87, I wrote Shrinks in Trouble.

I had to chuckle this week. Dr Choong's response to the GMC ended up in my post.

Steve Choong is some kind of Medical Director of Worcestershire Mental Health Trust. Choong is therefore responsible for everything. He happened to be the Medical Director and GMC Panelist during the time the GMC threw their net over me in the year 2007. Of course, he failed to declare this anywhere. Choong and resident fellow oddballs made such a advertising fuss about the GMC investigation against me. Flags were flown, people panicked, no one spoke to me at the Trust and so forth. It was all such a hullabaloo. In the confusion, they ran around like headless chickens wondering what they should do about me. Talking to me in that week person to person was of course out of the question. So they phoned the GMC, fretted, whined and finally decided to fire me. No reason was given bar the fact that they didn't want a person investigated by the GMC working for them. By then they had discovered, I was a whistleblower and OMG how they must have flapped their tiny little minds.

Apparently, I had not told them about the GMC investigation. I quietly pointed out that actually the GMC had already told them about it three days before. I then asked for their protocol where I am supposed to tell them about it, they huffed and puffed and told me they had no protocol. It then transpired that it was the GMC's own responsibility to tell them about an investigation. The GMC admitted this to me. I am describing this scenario because it keeps happening to many doctors. The GMC have failed to advise the Trusts whose responsibility it is to inform them of a GMC Investigation. And there we were, Worcestershire Mental Health Trust being idiotic and blatantly thick.

By the time the GMC net had come off, Steve Choong and his cronies were wondering about the disaster they had caused. They had fired me during the GMC investigation without cause. They had then lied to the world about it including the GMC. They told the GMC that I had resigned but have never been able to provide any kind of resignation letter or notice. They then continued this lie under oath. The case law created by me with the GMC was then used to ensure they were subjected to a GMC investigation. How ironic for them. How ironic for Steve Choong who bent over backwards for the GMC's court case and now finds himself in a predicament. In any event even if the GMC clears him - which they will, there is always the evidence on the internet to entertain all those who work with him.

Steve Choong is subject to a lengthy General Medical Council investigation due to this Trust wide fib. His response to the GMC is fascinating. He essentially denies the time of day. Apparently, he was not responsible for me at all :) and he says that he has left the GMC's employment :)> and is no longer a panellist. Well, it would be a terrible thing for a panellist to be subjected to GMC procedures and having to declare it :).

It is very sad to see Choong leave the GMC's workforce. Such a tragic loss to all mankind. Perhaps they will be able to get a panellist who can actually read properly, who knows the policies and who is aware of the management of junior doctors.

Today, there is lots of talk about Responsible Clinicians. So the Medical Director would be the person responsible at the Trust who thumbs through the revalidation/appraisal files. God help the person being revalidated or appraised by Steve Choong. I am surprised he doesn't just resign his post as Medical Director. He made such a spectacular mess of the issues surrounding me, I doubt he is capable of being in a management position. I wonder if someone can point him in the right direction to the book " Management for Dummies".

So when a person falls foul of his antics as a Responsible Clinician, whats he going to say - "it ain't me gov"? He certainly states this in his missive to the GMC. I ought to print the entire letter so we can all see what Dr Choong is capable of. Then we can compare it to the actual evidence. Anyway, this is what Steve's own Trust website states about him

"Appointed in June 2004, Steve’s main responsibilities include Clinical Governance and engagement of clinical staff with Trust objectives"

Dr India sent me an email detailing all the Staff Grade Psychiatrist jobs free at Worcestershire NHS Trust. What a shame that no one wishes to apply for them. Who on earth would want to work for an organisation that was so dysfunctional? Remember - its the place where the patients are saner than the management :). When you have the rest of England to choose from, why opt for Worcestershire? Ros Keeton's impression of a hen hairstyle is just not enough to attract those doctors. I suspect Ros and fellow cronies with half a neurone and overindulgent job titles will start whining about me writing on the internet about them. Yawn. People can be so tiresome sometimes. It is a really simple rule - you don't lie to the GMC and fib and I don't write on the internet. It's really really simple. Mind you that half a neurone on the executive board won't be able to cope with that simple little concept.

My thanks to Dr India who has backed me up on this issue. May God bless him with a thousand and one bars of chocolate :) and may his Trust management be imprisoned in Azerbaijan and fed on NHS Food.