"Stephanie Bown forced me to resign"

An Indian GP contacted me and told me that Stephanie Bown had forced him to resign. He invited me to his home and I met his family who were very upset by the way he had been forced to resign. He had been a trusted GP for many years in his local community. He had had little or no bother in the past and certainly nothing for the MPS to be worried about. In fact he had been popular and long serving until the day the police turned up at the surgery and arrested him. They held him at the police station for several hours until a solicitor sent by the MPS turned up. He had been accused of assaulting a female patient. In the end it came to nothing, there were no charges and everything was dropped. However as there is no smoke without fire and as this GP had been an independent sort of fellow, with business interests outside of medicine, who had not endeared himself to his PCT the knives were out. The next thing he knew he was being pushed out of his practise for, they said, not attending a patient quickly enough and the patient had not complained. It appeared to be a "put up job" and he was confronted and frightened by the PCT and ejected from his building with no means of defending his position except he telephoned the MPS and Stephanie Bown became involved. By that time he was ill with stress. He thought she would represent his interests but he said that she telephoned him and threatened him that the GMC would become involved and the time he was falsely accused would also be dragged up before the GMC at which point the MPS would not represent him and he would be erased. She then sent him unpleasant letters which he showed me and which suggested that he resigned from his practise and also took voluntary erasure. He said, "I expected the MPS to stand up for me but they did not. I had not expected to end my career in this fashion. The MPS have treated me in this way because I am an Indian doctor."