We are supposed to live in an era of free speech and democracy, and we hope that, within the confines of a closed forum (like Doctors.net) that comments, whilst not libellous, could be tolerated in the spirit of Voltaire:
'I hate what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.'
A Scottish junior doctor has been suspended from work by their Dean for making some unflattering comments about the re-election of Dame Carol Black to the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges. As far as I am aware, it is not illegal to make comments about people, although professionalism would suggest that you criticise their decisions, opinions and behaviour and not them as people.
Understandably, there is anxiety about the onward march of the snooping society, and as a result we are turning into a totalitarian society with our very own Stasi.
I would have expected Dame Carol to take criticism in the same way as we, as practising jobbing doctors, (and not Dames cosying up to Government) are expected to in iwantgreatcare.
Was not Carol Black partly complicit, with 'Sir' Liam Donaldson, in the fiasco that was and is MTAS?
I think we should be told.
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I don't know what this doctor is alleged to have said but if it is OK for patients to say whatever they like about doctors on publicly viewable web sites, it is odd that it is apparently not OK for a doctor to make a comment about another doctor on a private web site.
Who instigated his suspension? It wouldn't be anybody else in a vulnerable position would it? Are they trying to silence the critics by any chance? Surely not.
We don't know for sure, but somebody high up in the London Deanery has been suggested.
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