Dr Priya Singh's method of dealing with stressed doctors.

A doctor told me about Dr Priya Singh and her position in the MPS. Apparently she was the medical director who took over from Stephanie Bown who was moved sideways after Dr Sadek won his case against the MPS in the House of Lords. The doctor said it looked as if Priya Singh might well be the token woman and Asian face of the MPS, who were seeking to rebuild their tarnished image. However Priya Singh didn't realise that racism works both ways and that white doctors may also feel and be racially abused. Neither should Priya Singh or the MPS believe that a white face was necessarily not from an ethnic minority. Apparently when the doctor, who was being represented by another MPS doctor/advisor telephoned with a query Priya Singh, whom she had never dealt with before, came on the phone. The doctor said that she was taken by surprise at Priya Singh's attitude and threatening and abusive accusations, not the least of which was because Priya Singh was whispering as she spoke leaving the doctor shocked, unnerved and wondering what Priya Singh was talking about. The doctor said it reminded her of the time she was taken in a corner and threatened and undermined whilst working in the NHS. The doctor then wrote to Priya Singh, pointing out that she was surprised at Priya Singh using NHS tactics on her, and requested her not to do it again as she was already stressed and Dr Singh was merely adding to that stress. She also said she would forget it and told me she had only written in order to prevent it happening again. In spite of that Priya Singh then wrote an inflammatory letter to the doctor making further accusations which caused her to be more shocked and stressed than before because in essence it also looked defamatory as well. She then raised it with her doctor/advisor in the MPS who did nothing and kept reporting progress back to Priya Singh because he said she was his line manager. Eventually still very disturbed by all of this the doctor wrote again to Priya Singh some weeks later quoting the exact meaning of her words and explaining that Priya Singh had obviously made an error. She said that she thought it might be better to handle it this way because it gave Priya Singh a get out clause. However Priya Singh then replied "upping the anti" and rejecting the get out clause. The doctor said that it was then that she realised that Dr Singh was really bullying her and was someone who thought she could get away with it, and her subsequent actions, which included hiding an important letter, in the months that followed bore this out. The doctor has now been invited to make a proper complaint about Dr Priya Singh. She said "will they really bother and whose desk will that end up on. It's like the mad hatters tea party, they move it around". She said doctors, like buyers, should be aware. The problem is that unlike the GMC who now admit to some of their past failings, the MPS still do not, but leave people like Priya Singh to deal with them.