Back(-stabbing) Bacon or the glorious CMO - who do YOU trust?

What about 360 on the Prime Minister (before the next election) and the Health Secretary and others. Also, hospital managers whilst we are at it.

The Cockroach Catcher

Not sure if they sorted out Treaty of Rome as doctors from other EU countries do not have such re-validation and may in fact slip through and be allowed to work here unless someone heard anything different. That means if you have a Dublin medical degree…..

The Cockroach Catcher

I was (slightly) tempted to post on Dr Bacon’s ratemydoc site with regard to my own consultant, who affectionately think of as “Dr Cretin”. If I had done so, it would have gone something like this:

“Dr Cretin is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry who has not the slightest understanding of children or adolescents. He has regular habit of completely alienating patients thus utterly destroying therapeutic relationships that some under-appreciated junior nurse has worked hard to build up. Kids hate him. Parents hate him even more. He’s fundamentally entrenched in the medical model and has no comprehension at all of the psychosocial aspects of child and adolescent mental health. He prescribes drugs with the wilful abandon of a dealer at Kings Cross station. I trust his SHO’s clinical judgement more than his. In conversations with colleagues, he’s shown himself to be an anti-semite and a homophobe. I’ve raised concerns about his practice on more than one occasion, and it’s only the fact that he’s now taking early retirement that’s stopped me raising more. May he piss off to some beach where he can spend the rest of his retirement spending the proceeds of being ridiculously overpaid for doing a job he manifestly does not have the skills for.”

So yes, I would have been mildly critical.

However, I think medics are right to be upset about that particular site. Dr Cretin may be a clueless numpty, but I feel even clueless numpties are entitled to due process and a right of reply. Any complaints or concerns about a doctor’s (or any other health professional’s) conduct should be addressed through the proper channels, not broadcast on the internet as a naming-and-shaming exercise.

That last sentence was almost word-for-word what senior consultant Dr Whatever Karma said to me regarding my blog sketches about Dr Gorgeous and Mental Nurse Lurch. Suitably chastised, I gave an undertaking that my new Shrink Dr Julio Julio-Julio would not be starring in a sketch entitled “I Didn’t Study For 15 Years To Become a Consultant, To Be Made Your Personal Slave To Avoid Litigation - Do You Take Sugar In Your Coffee?”

“He prescribes drugs with the wilful abandon of a dealer at Kings Cross station.”
That had me laughing out loud; fantastic

“* - Dr “Senior Nurse” Shrink - is currently still without biscuit privileges”
Erm, don’t people need to complete the 3 weekends training that you need to do to qualify as an RMN and maintain registration with then NMC? I’m sure that’s what nursing students have to do, isn’t it?

And I want my biccies, ’specially the chocolate digestive ones. Mmmmm.

I started to reply to this but it became a bit of a tirade rather than a comment, so I’ve spared you my waffle and squirrelled away my ramblings here

Socartes, I’m nobody’s personal slave. Nowadays, the NHS has made it all wholly impersonal

Why are we all avoiding the fact that it was Doc Crippen who first alerted us to the presence of this website, via his own blog (which we all read, much as we don’t like his anti-nurse antics)? And for once, I agree with Crippen . . . these poor doctors (a phrase I never thought I’d hear myself use in passing passing conversation) are not given any chance to respond. Additonally, how do we know that it isn’t their snubbed ex-lovers posting these reviews as opposed to a genuine patient.

However, is anyone else a little bored of it all now? Like with Dr Dominic Briffa, Crippen is like a dog with a done - just won’t let it go until people sit up and take notice. Which I know is a good thing, but I would like to read about something else now please

Indeed, Crazy Nurse, Dr Crippen does deserve credit for being first to draw attention to this particular issue, and on this issue at least, I do agree with Dr Crippen.

And that’s something you don’t hear me saying all that often.