Comments on Dr Rant: The Wicked Witch of the North

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2008-09-10T21:28:00.000+01:00

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No one-do you not agree that this is a frightening...

2008-08-23T00:29:00.000+01:00

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.

I suspect - but of course cannot prove - that the ...

2008-08-22T11:59:00.000+01:00

I suspect - but of course cannot prove - that the coven is working to a - er - common purpose.

oh yea and of course my mum is perfect in every wa...

2008-08-22T09:50:00.000+01:00

oh yea and of course my mum is perfect in every way

http://notdrrant.blogspot.com/

Racheli basically agree with youthere are some cra...

2008-08-22T09:39:00.000+01:00

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

http://notdrrant.blogspot.com/

No one - you want it patientcentric?FineSomewhere ...

2008-08-22T09:19:00.000+01:00

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

no one does give a shitbut most professions have s...

2008-08-22T08:50:00.000+01:00

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

Steady on Socrates, no quacktitioners here please,...

2008-08-21T23:27:00.000+01:00

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 ;-)

It had occurred to me that the "events" could have...

2008-08-21T23:16:00.000+01:00

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 ;-)

Socrates,After the Scott Junior episode, getting a...

2008-08-21T22:25:00.000+01:00

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.

That's very revealing, No-One.The medical 'establi...

2008-08-21T22:22:00.000+01:00

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?

come on youve got more than 2 readerswots a matter...

2008-08-21T22:06:00.000+01:00

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

http://notdrrant.blogspot.com/

(P.S. Surely a Shrink should be doing the mental h...

2008-08-21T21:12:00.000+01:00

(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)

Dear Rant, my primary problem is that I'm an atavi...

2008-08-21T20:57:00.000+01:00

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")