Malice

 

I have often written on this blog about the tyranny and vindictiveness of the GMC, and of their arrogant view that the law somehow doesn’t apply to them. The GMC themselves are overseen and regulated by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social care. It is rare indeed for this body to take the GMC to task. The annual reports on GMC performance are little more than congratulatory whitewash exercises for their mates up the road. Even on those rare occasions when the high court finds against the GMC, this is not examined by the authority.

But when the opportunity arises to challenge the GMC in a way that enable the Authority to get the knife into an individual doctor they’re in there like a shot, showing a degree of malice and vindictiveness that makes the GMC look benign.

As in this case. A Belfast Neurologist was the subject of a GMC fitness to practice hearing. I don’t want to go into the allegations. They may be substantial, or the GMC may just be bullying, to which they’re not averse. The Doctor in question decided, understandably, to quit the profession entirely, and applied for voluntary erasure. Any registered medical professional has the right to do this. DZ looks forward to doing this in the near future. Once that happens I may reveal my identity. And then again I may not. Once erased the GMC have no more authority over the practitioner, who from then on has escaped their tyranny for ever. And to give the GMC their due they granted the request, erased the doctor, and the fitness to practice hearing then became moot, and was terminated. The Dr and the GMC went their separate ways. For once the GMC are not the villains of this peace.

The Professional Standards Authority weren’t happy with this. They went so far as to go to court to force the GMC to reregister the doctor, so that the fitness to practice hearing could proceed. Now, the ultimate sanction available to the GMC in a hearing is erasure. So the Authority wanted to  reinstate the doctor so that they could potentially erase him again. A case of. “You can’t quit, we want to fire you”. All it could possibly achieve was to subject the doctor to more stress, more humiliation, more harassment. An action so pointlessly vindictive and malicious you wonder what sort of vile cunts would want to do such a thing.

I’m pleased to say the judge told them to fuck off.