Dr Rita Pal and the Medical Protection Society

The Medical Protection Society originally was supposed to represent Dr Pal in the Ward 87 incidents, see http://ward87.blogspot.com/. They comprehensively let her down. That was the fault of Stephanie Bown. Stephanie Bown was sued sucessfully in the case of Sadek.

We all know what became of Dr Rita Pal. She was proved right in the Ward 87 massacre and more recently the snivelling Medical Protection Society in the form of Priya Singh has cuddled up to Dr Pal and sent her off to Berryman Lace Mawer.We say this though, if the bald man is on this case he will drop the ball if he has not already. Dropping the ball on behalf of Priya Singh is the norm with these cases where a doctor is likely to be proved right as Dr Pal has been.

What are the MPS going to do about Dr Pal, another doctor they didn't represent properly. Dr Pal speaks impeccable english as she was educated in the UK, so it cannot have been her accent which grated on their ears. Was it the colour of her skin or was it because they knew she was right but had to protect Professor Elisabeth Paice, an "important MPS member" who true to form did nothing useful for Dr Pal either. Dr Pal was Professor Paice's responsibility. She didn't listen as Dr Pal was so junior Paice took the line of least responsibility and recommended Dr Pal have counselling in spite of the dead patients and general neglect on Ward 87.

The emigrant community out here in the sun tell you the Medical Protection Society to admit in Dr Pal's case you are wrong. Young doctors beware of Paice she does not have your interests at heart.

Medical Protection Society, Mark Dudley Is Missing

Mark Dudley was the Head of Medical Services in London until last year. Supposedly he is still the Head of Medical Services but he has been missing from the London Office for over a year now. Where is this man we ask? Is he sick or is he on gardening leave? If it's gardening leave then he could have refashioned the whole of Kew Gardens by now.

Alison Metcalfe is sitting in his seat. She is Acting Head of Medical Services. If you remember she was the person who cocked up on the Bhadra case which necessitated moving him to Leeds amongst other things.

Returning to Mark Dudley- what has he done? Well a couple of years ago he wasted over £1,000,000 of the MPS money on what can only be called a bogus defamation claim on behalf of Andrew Wakefield against Brian Deer and Chanel 4. It was so bad that it comprehensively failed and the MPS was the laughing stock of the defence bodies all courtesy of the Head of Legal Services in London i.e. Mark Dudley.

Wakefield was coming up at the GMC and apparently the rather questionable and somewhat secretive and possibly dishonest Richard Barr, the solicitor of MMR (the lost cause) fame, was involved with all this. A former client of his from the Organo-Phosphate action, (another Barr failure), reliably informs the emigrant circle that Richard Barr has five rulings against him by the Law Society. Richard Barr was supposed to give evidence for Wakefield at the GMC- no doubt all orchestrated and countenanced by Mark Dudley who suddenly disappeared as if in a puff of smoke, from the MPS at the outset of the hearing. Was he pushed or did he succumb from the heat. Is Mark Dudley a fit and proper person to hold your medical career in his hands? We of the emigrant community think not.

Medical Protection Society - Boycott It Now - One

There are good reasons why all doctors should boycott the Medical Protection Society.

Junior doctors and overseas doctors should avoid it at all costs. There are a number of cases over the years in which the MPS has badly let down certain doctors.

There is Tushar Bhadra for instance. This doctor expected they would protect his reputation and preserve his right to work. They did nothing of the sort and when Bhadra would not give up they wheeled Mrs Bhadra into see the oleacous then Chief Executive, John Hickey. John Hickey tried to persuade Mrs Bhadra to get her husband to give up his cause.

Bhadra has since fought them constantly. He won a sanction and compensation from the Law Society against their solicitors, the very underhanded and puffed up RadcliffesLeBrasseur with Ralph Shipway. Alison Metcalfe was so inept at representing Bhadra he was moved onto the Leeds Office to be represented by Dr Barclay instead.

He was also moved onto Berryman Lace Mawer for them to represent him. A bad move for there he encountered Julliette Mellman-Jones, originally with RadcliffesLeBrasseur, who issued a judicial review to have Bhadra reinstated on the medical register. Guess what? Yes the GMC had managed to tip him off their computer and erase him accidentally whilst claiming there was no button on their computer which could restore him. If you would believe that you would believe anything. However Mellman-Jones managed to issue the judicial review after the three months deadline and although the judge essentially said that Bhadra should be restored to the register he also said the JR failed because it was issued out of time.

What the MPS should do after all of this time is pay off Bhadra for their machinations. It comes down to this, the MPS was a racist organisation in the past and looked down their noses at Indian doctors. Whether or not this is true is open to speculation, but Bhadra is being given no real help. They are playing games with him. No doubt when his name is raised in the MPS there is the usual exchange of laughter and knowing glances each time the Bhadra factor arises. We of the emigrant community living outside the UK tell you the MPS to compensate Bhadra now for all your failings towards him and admit you just would not treat a white consultant like that.

Is Dr Dudley fit for purpose?

I have spoken to a number of doctors about the way in which their cases have been handled by Dr Mark Dudley. What shines through each story is the mix of incompetence and deceipt and complete lack of will to do anything to represent a certain faction of doctors who are MPS members one way or another. Let us reflect of Tushar Bhadra, an Indian surgeon who has been accidentally erased from the register because the GMC did not realise that becuse of his age he no longer had to pay his fees and so they deleted his name from the register last year and now say they cannot find a mechanism on their computer to reverse it. Dr Dudley does little to help Dr Bhadra but has tied him up with Christina Lambert, a barrister, who is being very difficult over the issue of the judicial review promised within time. With anything Dr Dudley touches it's promises and piecrusts, soon broken. Dr Bhadra is waiting to be restored to the register still. Is Dr Dudley really in the pocket of the GMC- it looks as if he is after all Dr Bhadra is at this moment fighting the GMC in an Employment Tribunal which the MPS should be funding but are refusing to. Or is this just favouratism and a hint of superiority and racism on his part after all he went to the ends of the earth in supporting Dr Andrew Wakefield, the white charismatic conman in his failed attempt to use a claim form issued by Radcliffes Le Brasseur in the High Court in order to threaten people of little importance in order to shut them up and prevent the truth about Wakefield and his MMR and Legal Aid scam ever coming out. Thankfully Mr Justice Eady saw sense and exposed the claim form for what it was, no more than a device to threaten and intimidate others with. Dr Dudley has been called to the Bar and I wonder what the Bar Council would think about his deceipt if it ever reached their ears? Then the bigger deceipt when Dr Dudley failed to tell a Dr Colman of her entitlement to representation. I saw this doctor just before I flew out home and wished her well. The story of Dr Colman is a dreadful one and the MPS should be ashamed of themselves to leave doctors like Dr Colman and Dr Bhadra in limbo whilst spending several million on pulling out all stops to defend the indefensible MMR scandal of Dr Wakefield and his disreputable research and then expect the infamous Richard Barr, the solicitor central to all this to give a convincing story to get him aquitted. It is well known that Barr and Wakefield have creamed off several millions of legal aid in order to support a fake theory. So is Dr Dudley the supporter of all this bogus fakery and threats to small fry like the Cambridge Evening News really fit for purpose- perhaps not as he was missing for several weeks recently and had condoned the bogus actions being taken by Wakefield. Deception is the word to remember fellow doctors. Do not join the Medical Deception Society but join the MDDUS, and avoid Radcliffes Le Brasseur as well.

Dr Andrew Wakefield, The MPS and RadcliffesLeBrasseur

As you know Dr Andrew Wakefield, of MMR fame, is the centre of attention in a Professional Conduct hearing at the GMC at the moment. The MPS as ever are in Dr Wakefield's corner. Why wouldn't they be as his defence body? However, who else is in the corner with them? Dr Dudley appears to be. It was him who supported the disatrous attempt by RadcliffesLeBrasseur to issue proceedings for defamation against Brian Deer, the Sunday Times Journalist, and Channel Four. Having issued proceedings RadcliffesLeBrasseur then used the writ as an instrument to force small newspapers, such as the Cambridge Evening News, to back off printing any story about Dr Wakefield. Mr Justice Eady eventually found them out and Andrew Wakefield had to drop his case and RadcliffesLeBrasseur and the MPS had to pay up. The question is has that deterred them from still batting on a sticky wicket for Andrew Wakefield? Perhaps not, for Robert Vallings a partner at RadcliffesLeBrasseur has recently written a letter to his own regulatory body, who are investigating Ralph Shipway, another of RadcliffesLeBrasseur's solicitors, stating that Dr Surendra Kumar will be the first witness to vouch for RadcliffesLeBrasseur. You may ask who is Dr Surendra Kumar apart from being the chairman of BAIPO. He is the chairman of the GMC's own professional conduct panel which is sitting to determine the fate of Dr Andrew Wakefield. If Robert Vallings is correct in his assertion then that suggests that the MPS and RadcliffesLeBrasseur have also managed to get Dr Surendra Kumar in Andrew Wakefield's corner. This panel is compromised.

Dr Mark Dudley and Dr Tushar Bhadra

I was disturbed to discover the story of Dr Tushar Bhadra and way in which he had been treated by the Medical Protection Society. Dr Bhadra is an Indian doctor who relied on the MPS to represent him properly when he was accused of misconduct by the GMC in 1998. The difficulty for Dr Bhadra was that he had successfully claimed against his employer earlier. The employer paid him damages as a result of his being racially abused by his consultant who told him to go home to India amongs other things. After that things were difficult for Dr Bhadra who was obliged to earn his living by locum work. However not very far behind him were his enemies so it seemed as he was subsequently accused of not treating a patient in a casualty unit properly and changing his CV. It appears and Dr Bhadra has always maintained that he did not treat the patient wrongly and is supported in this and he didn't falsify his CV either but the GMC or the former employer may well have done. It seems at the time of the hearing and subsequently the MPS and RadcliffesLeBrasseur didn't represent him properly, behaved as if they disbelieved him which is quite common for them, and allowed him to be tied up in a never ending circle of trying to fulfill the GMC's conditions on his suspended registration for a number of years, which requred him to retrain but on the other hand never being given the chance to retrain. The nub of the matter came to a head over the years and at one point Dr John Hickey former CE of the MPS invited Mrs Bhadra in and tried to persuade her, quite wrongly, to get Dr Bhadra to give up his cause. Eventually Dr Bhadra was supported in his assertions by another solicitor's firm that RadcliffesLeBrasseur had been negligent. Of course they should have settled with him then but Ralph Shipway of RadcliffesLeBrasser visited Dr Bhadra at his house unexpectedly to pour oil on troubled waters. Last year the GMC erased Dr Bhadra almost by default and the MPS should now be representing him to get his registration back. This is where Dr Dudley comes in. He seems to be representing Dr Bhadra with Juliette Mellman-Jones of Berryman Lace Mawer. How effective this will be remains to be seen because now Dr Bhadra has a race relations case against the GMC. Dr Dudley refuses to give him any support in this although I think he should and so do other doctors. The MPS and Dr Dudley in particular do not want to challenge the GMC because for them Dr Bhadra is an embarrassment. Basically they were negligent but when it comes to it if they have been negligent in the handling of a doctor's case with the GMC as they have with Dr Bhadras then they will never do anything to help if as in this case Dr Bhadra is winning against the GMC. What they are really frightened of is the GMC pointing out in a tribunal or court that it is not just the GMC who has been wrong but that the MPS and their solicitors, RadcliffesLeBrasseur, have contributed to this wrong by their inadequate and negligent representation of the doctor. in that way the MPS always walks away from their negligence and their responsibility to put it right. I suggest to you doctors reading this that the MPS is an organisation which is dishonest and will go to any lengths not to honour its commitment to doctors, and this is especially the case if the doctor is from overseas. Dr Dudley is in the forefront of holding the line for the MPS. Do not join the MPS. They will renege on their duty towards you in order to cover up. Join the MDDUS instead and insist that if you are in trouble you will not be represented by RadcliffesLeBrasseur.

Dr Mark Dudley, Head of Medical Services London

Dr Dudley has recently been promoted to Head of Medical Services in the London office. I happened to speak to a doctor who told me they had seen a clutch of letters written by Dr Dudley in which he told a doctor they were not eligible for help when they obviously were. I was surpised, looked in their Memorandum of the Articles of Association and saw that the letters were at variance with what the Articles said. I asked the doctor what had happened. He told me that this other doctor, who was well known, had been defamed on the internet and elsewhere constantly by a couple of MPS members who were husband and wife. Even though this doctor was a retired member they ought to have been eligible for representation and had naively relied on Dr Dudley to tell them their full entitlement but it turned out that he had neglected to do so and was now trying to deny any wrong doing. To make matters worse when a Leading Counsel told Dr Dudley that this doctor had been defamed by their member and said "He's obviously got an agenda" Dr Dudley shut him up immediately and refused to allow any proper discussion of it. The Leading Counsel had not been properly instructed by the solicitors to take into account all of the issues and also instructed the leading counsel wrongly over the doctor's entitlement. I asked if this had been a mistake but then I saw other papers in which it showed that there were forces at work in the MPS showing that the defamer was not working alone and his consultant from his house officer days was now an advisor in the MPS, but the MPS had played this close to their chest and were giving nothing away. I asked the doctor what had then happened and he told me that the retired member had written to Dr Dudley about the deception. There was little doubt that Priya Singh would have known about the deception and if she didn't originally she must do now as Dr Dudley still said she was responsible for him. I asked the doctor if anything had been done by the MPS Council and its chairman, Nick Davis, to put matters right. He said he didn't think there had but then it may yet not have reached the ears of the council. I asked the doctor what this other doctor really thought and he said that there has been a deception and an attempted cover up by Dr Dudley for the MPS. The Emigrant asks doctors to reflect carefully about this organisation and recommends that doctors move to the MDDUS.