I met a doctor on a train

I met an Egyptian doctor on a train. He told me a curious story. He said that although he was registered he had not worked as a doctor for eight years. He said he had been let down by the MPS. He said that in his last post at Kings Lynn Hospital he was bullied by two consultants. Apparently the second one had supported the first one when the doctor had complained about bad treatment of him. He told me that when he had left the hospital at the end of his contract they then invited him back and hoodwinked him into taking an assessment which they then failed him on. They sent out an alert letter which blacked him from further work. He then had some help from the MPS who failed to get the alert letter lifted but wished him good luck, sent him on his way and said they would support him in the future if anything arose from all of this. Meanwhile he could no longer work. He then took his file of papers and his complaint about these consultants mistreatment of him to the GMC who asked him to leave the file with them for photocopying. Afterwards it was returned to him and he heard nothing more for two years until the GMC sent him a letter making accusations of incompetence about him instead. He told the GMC he wasn't working but they took no notice but continued to pursue him. As the day of his hearing loomed he went to the MPS and asked them to defend him but Stephanie Bown told him there was no help for him and to go away. He had in the meantime met a GMC member who read the letters and telephoned Stephanie Bown and challenged her as to whether she was a racist. Stephanie Bown denied this but he pointed out to me that Dr Sadek, a Turkish doctor, had successfully challenged the MPS and Stephanie Bown all the way to the House of Lords and won his case for racism against them. He said that speaks for itself. He said that the GMC member then wrote to the MPS advisor who had originally promised to help him if anything untoward arose later and held him to his earlier promise. At that point the MPS pulled out all stops for the Egyptian doctor who was cleared of incompetence. However his life was in ruins and when he asked the MPS to provide more assistance to right the wrong done to him they ran him a merry dance for some time but the upshot was it came to nothing because they refused on the grounds that they couldn't pursue other doctors for compensation. He said he didn't believe them and perhaps if he had been someone else and not an Egyptian and a devout Muslim then they might have acted differently. Eventually he got the alert letter removed himself. He said if it had not been for the GMC member then he would have had no help from the MPS. As he got off the train he told me her name and to look on Dr Rita Pal's website. He said get in touch with her if you can, you may learn something.