Can someone explain why this doctor is still practising?
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Whoever wrote that needs to learn the difference between practise and practice and 37 degrees isn't a temperature. Poor reporting aside, it highlights poor training and support for doctors in many hospitals. There are far too many docs out there who are a danger. Some due to poor training and some due to basic incompetence.
I think you've misread it. My cup of tea has a temperature of approximately 80C at the moment. It doesn't mean it's feeling ill, though.37 degrees C would not be a concern.......so no probs...I would defy any medical expert to recognise early signs of menningitis....just like a flu like condition. This is a big problem all GPs will confront and you cant teat all pts with these symptoms as menningitis. This is why this doc hasnt been struck off. Medicine is a science and not pure like maths FFS.
What are the odds that she was trained abroad? But, the NHS cannot and will not admit it has problems, and anyway that's RAY-CIST.
ETA- 4 deaths, apparently. http://northfieldpatriot.blogspot.com/2010/03/dr-s...
And the notes http://www.gmc-uk.org/static/documents/content/abd... suggest she was trained here, if I'm reading that right.
ETA- 4 deaths, apparently. http://northfieldpatriot.blogspot.com/2010/03/dr-s...
And the notes http://www.gmc-uk.org/static/documents/content/abd... suggest she was trained here, if I'm reading that right.
Edited by grumbledoak on Sunday 18th July 22:17
poo at Paul's said:
I think the answer too the OP's question is that it's a woman and from her name appears to be from a "minority".
Therefore she is what's known as in Public Sector circles as "untouchable".
should have been made to go back to medical school for another 5/6 or 7 years. Then we would know how keen she is on medicine & care of patients.Therefore she is what's known as in Public Sector circles as "untouchable".
I feel awful when I read stuff like this, and embarrassed that there are people in my profession who can behave with such stupidity DESPITE their training - it isn't that difficult to become a reasonable doctor FFS. I'm currently supervising a doctor in a similar, though much less extreme case, who has conditions placed on their licence to practice, but the case quoted here relates to a hospital doctor who should get supervision by osmosis - she is a middle grade team member, not working in isolation.
Unfortunately, There are not enough doctors in the U.K., and the reality is that places like Cardiff are not the most popular of places to work, and so there is almost certainly a lack of trained medical staff for the posts available in that area, so it's all hands to the pumps. The NHS manpower crisis should gradually improve as the increased medical school output qualifies, but there is a shortage of doctors because of EU working time directives, shift structures etc. Not an excuse, just a fact of life.
Another slightly chilling factor is the relationship between medical graduates and borderline psycopathy/personality disorders - the psychological evaluations so beloved of many American HR departments are rarely used for medical school applicants - they are tinkered with in general practice recruitment, but not in a systematic way, and there is a sliding-scale relationship between medicine and psychological dysfunction, which can in extreme cases express itself as uncaring, dispassionate assessment of clinical cases. Scary all round, really.
Unfortunately, There are not enough doctors in the U.K., and the reality is that places like Cardiff are not the most popular of places to work, and so there is almost certainly a lack of trained medical staff for the posts available in that area, so it's all hands to the pumps. The NHS manpower crisis should gradually improve as the increased medical school output qualifies, but there is a shortage of doctors because of EU working time directives, shift structures etc. Not an excuse, just a fact of life.
Another slightly chilling factor is the relationship between medical graduates and borderline psycopathy/personality disorders - the psychological evaluations so beloved of many American HR departments are rarely used for medical school applicants - they are tinkered with in general practice recruitment, but not in a systematic way, and there is a sliding-scale relationship between medicine and psychological dysfunction, which can in extreme cases express itself as uncaring, dispassionate assessment of clinical cases. Scary all round, really.
Nubbin said:
Another slightly chilling factor is the relationship between medical graduates and borderline psycopathy/personality disorders - the psychological evaluations so beloved of many American HR departments are rarely used for medical school applicants - they are tinkered with in general practice recruitment, but not in a systematic way, and there is a sliding-scale relationship between medicine and psychological dysfunction, which can in extreme cases express itself as uncaring, dispassionate assessment of clinical cases. Scary all round, really.
Psychometric testing only catches stupid mad people. Not clever mad people. It is has been pretty well established that they are easily fooled.This is a slightly odd post.
"The Panel has also had regard to the ISG at paragraph 75, which states that suspension may be appropriate when, amongst other things, the following factors are apparent:
• A serious breach of Good Medical Practice where the misconduct is not fundamentally incompatible with continued registration;
• No evidence of harmful, deep-seated personality or attitudinal problems;
• The Panel is satisfied that the doctor has insight and does not pose a significant risk of repeating the behaviour."
HTH!
grumbledoak said:
What are the odds that she was trained abroad? But, the NHS cannot and will not admit it has problems, and anyway that's RAY-CIST.
Why are you asking this question when later in the post, you give us a link that shows her registered qualification to be "MB ChB 1995 University of Liverpool" (i.e. she did her medical degree in Liverpool)? grumbledoak said:
And the notes http://www.gmc-uk.org/static/documents/content/abd... suggest she was trained here, if I'm reading that right.
The answer to the OP's question in also in the link and is as follows:"The Panel has also had regard to the ISG at paragraph 75, which states that suspension may be appropriate when, amongst other things, the following factors are apparent:
• A serious breach of Good Medical Practice where the misconduct is not fundamentally incompatible with continued registration;
• No evidence of harmful, deep-seated personality or attitudinal problems;
• The Panel is satisfied that the doctor has insight and does not pose a significant risk of repeating the behaviour."
HTH!
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