Doctor A
        Doctor A said in his Medical Opinion and in his  reply in the complaint he was always there for me. However he NEVER answered any of my questions or volunteered an explanation why I was sent to hospital at such short notice, or: what was exactly wrong with me in the 1st place that necessitated my sudden hospitalisation or: even that arrangements were under way to retire me. I assumed he knew of the Hospital Consultants letter dated 1999. (it is in my medical notes).

        After my release from hospital I was going through the collapse of my Practice, as outlined previously, and wanted to know why this was allowed to happen. I wanted to know WHAT WAS HAPPENING medically to me and WHAT had happened to my practice when I was in Hospital. I mentioned the promise given to me in that telephone-call but received nothing back. I was becoming more desperate by the day as my life was now REALLY collapsing. I mentioned my suicidal thoughts. That had been introduced and reinforced by the treatment in Heath House.

        All the causes of the stress I had had BEFORE hospitalisation were still there and all now MUCH worse because now I was threatened with Bankruptcy and god knows what else. ALL caused by my sudden disappearance. All except my mother’s death which has faded into insignificance,

I quote from the medical opinion

          I repeatedly asked for counseling or anything to help me cope with the disaster that was rapidly unfolding until one day I lost it totally in his reception area and screamed at the poor Receptionist, jumping up and down and shouting “I NEED HELP”.

It was ONLY then, 18 months after my discharge from hospital, that I was referred to the Local Mental Health Resource Unit.        

             18 months after my release and in the findings of the complaint the Independent Review say this was “good ” treatment.


        I wrote to him trying to put  my anger into words and I have seen a letter, in my medical notes,  where he expressed his “surprise” I had not been told. He said “I was in direct conflict with your recommendation that I should be retired” This was in a letter to another Dentist who was on the Local Health Board. YET a letter exists in my medical notes, addressed to whom it may concern, dated 4th June 1998 where HE states it is HIS Medical Opinion I should be retired. Yet he never told me of this before OR after my hospitalisation. Not even the retirement proceedings with the NHS Pensions agency was done correctly.
      

Throughout the formal complaint started in October 2003 Dr A relied on his memory, despite his current post as Medical Director of the Local LHB and his previous posts of Chairman of the BMA Wales, GP committee Wales and the Welsh Medical Committee,  Did he know how to evade the investigation and use this to his advantage? He after all said that he did not remember the name of the Consultant but in  the medical opinion she is named  by him

Mr D.H.S  from the Independent Review Wales, said that Dr A had consulted his "private and personal" notes about me, but would not explain their presence and totally ignored any reference to the Medical Opinion.. Surely these are a second, illegal copy of my medical notes and WHY would Dr A HAVE KEPT notes about me anyway if he had behaved professionally?

A man spent 10 years refusing to answer me; another man spent a few days investigating it; and another man a few hours reading about it and then a few minutes telling me: 'No - you cannot have answers' .

I quote from here

2. In paragraph 66-67 of our core guidance Good Medical Practice we say o If you have agreed to prepare a report, complete or sign a document or provide evidence, you must do so without unreasonable delay.

o If you are asked to give evidence or act as a witness in litigation or formal inquiries, you must be honest in all your spoken and written statements. You must make clear the limits of your knowledge or competence.

 

His response is also CONTRARY to the advice given on a Defence Union websites and in the guidelines to fitness for Practice. and his Terms of Service as a Medical Practitioner working for the NHS.

All letters mentioned are in my possession or in my Medical Notes.

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