Unlikely! This was quite some time ago and the consultancy was in the USA!


>From: Lesley Kay <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Was-Re: Your Life in.........Now impossible docs
>Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:35:59 -0000
>
>Rheumatology is a small world - I think I have worked out who this is and
>don't think the consultant post was anything other than deserved - be
>careful about giving details out!
>Lesley
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Dr Fay Wilson
>Sent: 24 March 2004 23:20
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Was-Re: Your Life in.........Now impossible docs
>
>
>Corruption in return for not reporting sexual harassment? Oh dear.
>--
>Fay
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Caldwell" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:52 PM
>Subject: Re: Was-Re: Your Life in.........Now impossible docs
>
>
>If this really was about croutons, then its petty. But doctors (gps too)
>should be suspended for non-clinical matters eg fraud, sexual harassement,
>racial discrimination, bad-tempered so-and-so. i think the middle two are
>much commoner than gets into the public eye. An ex-GF and her best mate, at
>the time (and presumably still, Sandy, if u read this! phew-got out of that
>one)  a v attractive HO, were sexually harassed by her consultant and his
>best mate at a conference but did nothing about it except her mate
>threatened to tell his wife unless he fixed her a top SHO medical rotation
>and SPR post after. She got it and made cons in rheum in 5 years.
>
>
> >From: Michael Leuty <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: GP-UK <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Was-Re: Your Life in.........Now impossible docs
> >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:57:52 +0000
> >
> >On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:24, Paul Caldwell wrote:
> > > Hmm, methinks might be more to that suspension than meets the eye.
> >
> >Terence Hope was of course the surgeon who killed a patient on prime
> >time TV by accidentally drilling into her carotid aneurysm (in the
> >four-part documentary on the QMC called "The Trust"). But neurosurgery
> >is a risky speciality, and if there were any concerns about his clinical
> >performance no doubt the appropriate procedures would be followed. It is
> >unlikely that war by croutons forms part of such procedures.
> >
> >The word locally is that Mr Hope is quite a strong-willed character (and
> >no-one who agrees to be filmed while performing a risky operation can be
> >a shrinking violet) who has been in conflict with the hospital
> >authorities for some time over the quality, price and portion size in
> >the hospital canteen. One can see the hospital management's point of
> >view, "we have to run this place on a shoestring budget, and have to
> >have the same rules for everyone".
> >
> >This conflict puts into a nutshell (or a soup tin) the struggle between
> >doctors and management (on behalf of Government). The hospital canteen
> >is crucial to the welfare of staff, particularly those in specialities
> >which require them to spend long hours in hospital. Doctors see
> >themselves as being "stakeholders" and entitled to a say, the management
> >demands control of all aspects of the hospital and brooks no dissent.
> >
> >But the cardinal rule is "don't pick fights you can't win". Suspension
> >can no longer be used when patients are not in danger. It is not
> >acceptable for management to put the welfare of patients in jeopardy as
> >part of a dispute over canteen prices. The hospital administrators were
> >the subject of withering satire on page one of the Nottingham Evening
> >Post yesterday.
> >
> >If only we GPs could do the same!
> >--
> >Michael Leuty <[log in to unmask]>
>
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