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I am Alyn James and in 1998 I was a NHS Dentist working in Briton Ferry, West Glamorgan..  

I worked for the NHS for 23 years having qualified in Summer 1975 and  moved to Wales in 1985.

 I was suddenly hospitalised/sectioned and then retired, without my knowledge, on June 11th 1998.The diagnosis was "a high risk suicide.

      Over the course of the last 10 years I have been subject to gossip about my sudden retirement, circulated by people who haven’t got a bloody clue of what the truth is.  I  was painted as an ignorant bastard who abandoned his Dental Practice, walking off and leaving his patients to fend for themselves, some in the middle of treatment. It’s simply not true at all and I’ve decided that I’d just set out the actual facts to stop it.

I also want to apologise to my patients as none of this was intended but my life was suddenly, and forcibly, taken out of my hands and STILL with no explanation.

I call him Dr A.

 

These were my problems before hospitalisation that caused me to see Dr A  and this is what I did in the week before the telephone call to go to hospital. I had to endure this on my release. Life was now catastrophically worse now, all caused by my sudden and unexplained disappearance and then there was the chaos surrounding my retirement. Not even the retirement proceedings with the NHS Pensions agency could be done properly.  This is what I have done, in the last 10 years to try and get to the truth.

I was removed from the Dental Register and fully retired the day I was sent to hospital but I was not informed  and had to find THAT out  myself after 6 weeks of being treated and medicated as a "high risk suicide" The medication continued for 5 years which made it impossible to function normally.

        I have been to a GP in Wales in effect for three problems since 1985 and in 1998 was  mis-diagnosed  as a  high risk suicide: and had my professional life destroyed totally. I have been refused treatment for pneumonia: in 2004 and nearly lost part of my left lung. I have, apparently, been mis-diagnosed 2006/7 as having a serious heart problem and now have NO discernible pulse in either arm. AND  I have just been sent to the local Mental health Unit for the 4th time when I went to my GP for reassurance and  have had to suffer the attitude of her and other GP's . I have since had what I thought was a heart attack. However I have been reassured that my heart is OK but do I believe them considering the previous misdiagnosis and the, now apparently unnecessary, 18 months I was on Warfarin..

        I am now destined to die sooner rather than later because my trust in Doctors has been totally destroyed. I now REALLY do not  know if my heart is compromised or not and  I, as Pavlov's dogs, fear any visits to my surgery in case I receive a similar response. She has, in effect, stopped my chances of receiving ANY medical treatment as she showed that I cannot ask questions about whether said treatment is correct or not. Same attitude as Dr A in 1998.   

 

      I went through the NHS complaint service where it was found, whilst I had no diagnosis he was exemplary even though he was allowed to reply from memory. Please read his Medical Opinion and other relevant documents and my response  to that opinion. An example.. A bit about Dr A. and the 20 year connection between Dr A and my family  I collect all my angry thoughts at themaddentist blog whenever they occur.

   

Please  email  me you feel I am wrong in thinking I SHOULD have KNOWN  about my retirement before it occurred in order that I may try to take on board your knowledge and use it as a learning aid to allow me to live or rather not die a lonely, angry and painful death. The whole reason for 40 out of 58 years (as of July 2008) has been destroyed. AND at the same time I was loosing my marriage and family.

Please also contact me if you feel you can help me get answers.

My life has been devastated but it has been a very difficult time People instantly treated me differently there were many shouts of abuse It is difficult to come to terms with this and I ask myself 'why would someone do such a thing?" The only hope I have for the future is to put my life back together and try to get back to normal. Is it any wonder that I have NO faith whatsoever that the NHS is there to help me heal? In fact I am  very wary/frightened of NHS staff now because of the way they have been able to casually patronise, ignore me and then mislabel me because I kept on asking a very reasonable question. I feel like I’m living in a 1984/Animal Farm world.

I deserve more respect than this from the NHS. I have had 41 years destroyed, in total, since I started University in 1967 working for the NHS throughout my career. 

I collect all my angry thoughts at themaddentist blog whenever they occur.

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Thanks Tom