Comments on DOCTORS4JUSTICE: So you want to be a doctor.

Count Rubin in this weeks' BMJ: "I want to make c...

2009-11-14T05:03:31.589-08:00

Count Rubin in this weeks' BMJ:

"I want to make clear that any doctor who wants to report genuine concerns will have nothing to fear from the GMC."

That paraphrases s43 of GMP but at s46: You must treat your colleagues fairly and with respect.
s47: You must not make malicious and unfounded criticisms of colleagues

There is everything to fear from mendacious and malicious colleagues/managers that eject you from your job and dump you in the GMC.

The literal mis-application of these clauses undermine the jurisdiction of the GMC, and, will undermine 360 degree feedback in revalidation.

As Sir David Carter, CMO Scotland, observed revalidation simply sets one half of the profession against the other. It is exactly what Milburn and Blair had in mind when they set out on this path with the Bristol inquiry.

Let us hope there is a substantial win in Hickey v GMC and Colman v GMC on 23 and 24th November 2009 in the High Court. The GMC is looking a "totalitarian" organisation in the hands of Count Rubin.

Such a pity, students are not given this article t...

2009-11-10T07:42:25.980-08:00

Such a pity, students are not given this article to read before they join the medical college. Medicine is no longer a prestige profession - ruined by the media and the profession itself. Well done doctors - keep going and we will be a rare breed.

all tyrannical organisations eventually implode - ...

2009-11-07T04:33:23.276-08:00

all tyrannical organisations eventually implode - the Roman empire, the British Empire, Inca civilisation ...... it's only a matter of time.