Gillian and Liz. How pally are they, exactly?
Indeed, it was Professor Elizabeth 'I'm a total shit' Paice who's complaint to Dr Scot Junior's Dean resulted in his suspension, but Gillian was the one who should have said 'no'.
Dean Gillian Needham at home yesterday.
The irony is, our reader points out, that Needham is meant to be one of the future 'leaders' of the profession. Oh dear.
Yes, Paice is a shit. Yes, Carol Black is a shit (get over it, Liz!). But so too is Gillian Needham.
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Dear Rant, my primary problem is that I'm an atavistic misanthrope. Secondry issues include my favorite MentalNurses are away on hols and I've to find new people to bait ;-) Among my Tertiary issues is the subserviant role junior Consultant Psychiatrists have adopted in the mental health system and their pathetic pleadings, to social workers promoted to management, that they may join them in the theraputic process. And to get a reply, second only in contempt, to that normally reserved for us patients (Opps! "Service Users")
(P.S. Surely a Shrink should be doing the mental health ranting here? Can't you troll DNUK for some strung-out inner-city SHO)
come on youve got more than 2 readers
wots a matter poor woor little doctors been bossed around by a useless excuse for a leader?
tough shit get over it
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That's very revealing, No-One.
The medical 'establishment' dumb down medical training to the point that patient care suffers.
A junior doctor gets suspended for calling the person responsible for damaging patient care a shit.
No-One doesn't give a shit!
I think you will find, No-One, that you will be fighting a long, lonely war to improve health care if you keep shooting people who are on your own side. At the very least, Scot Junior is an ally in the war against poor care.
Have you heard of 'friendly fire'? Or is your solution just to shoot anything that moves until you are the only one left?
Socrates,
After the Scott Junior episode, getting anyone in a training post (ie: who has a Dean to suspend them for questioning their betters) to write for Dr Rant will be a tad tricky.
It had occurred to me that the "events" could have a dampening effect on the clinical blogosphere. btw, lack of a sense of humour, particularly a sense of irony and/or sarcasm can be used a diagnostic marker in some Pervasive Developmental Disorder [F80.x series] screening instruments. So don't get cute ;-)
Steady on Socrates, no quacktitioners here please, if anyone's handing out Developmental Disorder labels it'll be a qualified psychiatrist, thank you kindly.
For more succinct but less clinically validated formulations, I'm happy for one and all to pontificate.
Thus F80.blah is out. But if you mused over Dr Rant's posts then considered the 3 hags to be, "ineffective and pernicious little twats" then I'd have no issue with such formulations at all ;-)
no one does give a shit
but most professions have some crap leaders, most professions have mechanisms formal and much less formal for dealing with it
crying like babies about human nature and some folk in leadership positions being shits and having power go to their heads, and being on a power trip, and pandering to their own political view of the world
human nature is human nature, there will always be shit excuses for leaders in organisations, its how the folk in the group react to that and keep the organisation running well that is the test
given the shit care handed out by the nhs every day i would have thought there were more important things to blog about than one poor doc being handled badly by a fucked up system
again if you put it in the context of crap care, and make the story patient centric rather than doctor centric it would probably demand more sympathy
No one - you want it patientcentric?
Fine
Somewhere in that country North of England (but sharing a border with) there are patients suffering because some twat decided to suspend a registrar for no good fucking reason.
If a Reg is off work, the other regs end up working more shifts
As we are all already working the limit of what is legal, that means they aer doing too many shifts.
That means their ability to empathise and care, not to mention their ability to make critical decison rationally, is strained.
So yes this matters.
Additonally an important part of being a doctor is critiquing other people's decision making to help your patients.
If our critical thinking is stunted by these bastards all patients (and that includes your scrofulous mum No One) will suffer.
This is A Bad Thing
PS the word patientcentric is an abomination
Rachel
i basically agree with you
there are some crap leaders in my profession, being a lot more free market than the nhs this at a big picture level sorts itself out cos the best staff gravitate to the best leaders etc, its not perfect but its better than the nhs will ever do, i think it is the stalinist model that the nhs operates under that stops these mechanisms working for the benefit of all in the nhs
but your words and highlighting the impact on the patients cetainly makes it a much more compelling story
some great staff get shafted every day in the big bad world outside the nhs, most people in the big bad world of commercial work expect this, much more of an issue is crap service to the end customers
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oh yea and of course my mum is perfect in every way
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I suspect - but of course cannot prove - that the coven is working to a - er - common purpose.
No one-do you not agree that this is a frightening violation of the basic right to freedom of speech? Patient care-that's not really my primary concern in this situation. Neither, really, is the doctor. My concern is that someone who made a comment in passing about a public figure (I mean, come on! public figures should expect to be commented on) was basically dragged away by the Thought Police and punished. Whether it affected bloody patients or not hardly matters-what matters is that censorship and authoritarianism are reaching these levels in what used to be a Western democratic country. Much worse things will happen to patients and indeed, everyone else, if we sit back and let this happen. Ever seen V for Vendetta? Britain these days is scaring me, to be honest. Combine this authoritarian surveillance and control with your legal system-ie. guilty until proven innocent, and you have a recipe for the biggest disaster since Hitler and the Nazis.
They no doubt would get a nice politically correct docile locum in if patient care was seriously being compromised by the absence of one doctor-I would hope. Just to minimise the disturbance they themselves were making.
Patient care be damned. This is much more serious. Your rights as citizens are being eroded one by one, and you don't even see it.
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