Introduction

This blog serves to expose the inside of the Medical Protection Society in a way that will surprise the reader. After all what is the MPS? It is said to be a discretionary mutually beneficial society created to help doctors facing disciplinary problems. It boasts of the fact that there will always be a medical advisor on hand to support you and look after your best interests. But is that what really happens and whose interests are they really looking after doctor? Is it really yours? Well it probably is if you are a consultant or a GP principle. If however you are neither of these then it may not be your best interests they are looking after but in fact someone elses best interests including their own and including your regulator's interests. In fact it is likely that they will be acting with a conflict of interests, whilst hoping that you the doctor will not twig there is anything wrong and if you do they will smooth it over with their emollient words, assuring you that all is OK. Can you really be sure? You cannot. This blog will tell the tale of this organisation and what lies in it's archives. It will tell a story of cover up. This is it as never before.

Tuesday 17 April 2007

Robert Vallings of RadcliffesLeBrasseur makes a threat

Still curious about Robert Summerling and Le Brasseur I inquired again of the doctor and asked her if she had had any recent dealings with them. She said she had and that as more emerged recently, including papers from the MPS and another firm of solicitors she then decided to contact Le Brasseur now RadcliffesLeBrasseur about the whole matter and ask them for her files. She first telephoned to ascertain to whom she should enquire and when they knew the nature of her inquiry she was asked to contact Robert Vallings, the complaints handling partner. She explained to him what she wanted and mostly answers as to why they had done nothing at the time of the psychopath note following the conversation between their former partner Summerling and Gray. At first Robert Vallings tried to prevaricate until the doctor pointed out that she needed her papers and that they had failed in their duty of care towards her and were negligent in doing nothing. When she told him it was already known by a number of doctors how RadcliffsLeBrasseur had failed then he immediately got aggressive and warned her to keep quiet unless she wanted a defamation suite on her hands. She said, "I said to him, 'bring it on' that it wasn't just me but other doctors had complaints about them which would end up in the public domain. After that he quietened down." Following this The Emigrant has found out that other doctors began to write and complain to RadcliffesLeBrasseur and one Indian doctor asked for his money back as they had given him wrong advice, telling him to plead guilty at the GMC to a criminal conviction which the GMC had raised with him in spite of the fact that he was appealing it. RadcliffesLeBrasseur were very haughty declaring that he would fail in his appeal anyway, which he didn't. He said, "It was because I was an Indian and they pretend they don't understand our accents. You will see they didn't represent Chai Patel when he successfully judicially reviewed the PCC of the GMC. He chose other solicitors. He's not stupid but they thought I was. I want my money back and at last Robert Vallings is dealing with that." The Emigrant belives that doctors should seek representation from other firms and not be pressed by the MPS into having RadcliffesLeBrasseur.

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