British Doctor Suspended for falsely claiming she was “promised” a laptop. WTF!

BY SAURABH JHA If forced to choose Britain’s two biggest contributions to civilizations, I’d pick the Magna Carta and the vaguely instructional “f. off.” If permitted a third, I’d choose “managerialism.” Brits are good at telling others what to do. Managerialism is how the Brits once ruled India. Buoyed by the colonial experience, British managers felt they could rule doctors.  The new Viceroy, the manager-in-chief, is the General Medical Council (GMC). The GMC is a physician watchdog, funded by doctors, which works for the public good and is answerable to…well, I’ll get to that later. Their relevance rose exponentially when the psychopathic Dr. Harold Shipman, a charming, clinically adept, general practitioner, killed over two hundred patients. Never again, said the managers. They promised to keep the public safe from dodgy doctors with aspirations of Jack the Ripper and Sweeney Todd. Recently, Dr. Manjula Arora, a doctor of Indian origin, was in GMC’s crossfire. Though I don’t know Dr. Arora personally, I’d hazard a guess that she didn’t migrate to the UK to emulate Harold Shipman. It’s also unlikely, and this may surprise some, that she left India for fortune and glory – doctors in India do well fiscally when you factor in the living costs. She may have been motivated by greener educational pastures in the UK, the sort that produces managers and doctors.  How did the GMC save the vulnerable British public from the “dangerou...
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