On my release, in July 1998, I was forbidden to contact my Practice and was still on heavy medication. I do not remember too much at this time but I do remember being constantly told that all was OK every time I asked. I asked for details but none were forthcominh..

 

    I had arranged for all my regular correspondence to be sent to the practice, rather than to my home address at the start of my stressful period so that I could deal with any problem "with company" (my staff) rather than alone at home. ALL standing orders and direct debits were taken from my practice account. I had a small account set up for my everyday living but 90% of income stayed in my Practice account. At the end of every month I placed about £200 in my personal account. So when I got home there was very little mail apart from junk mail so I assumed in a drug riddled haze. (I felt sort-of drunk ALL the time) that ALL was being done and followed the Heath House advice that I was BANNED from going ANYWHERE NEAR MY PRACTICE. After a few weeks or so I started getting telephone calls from the CSA and the Insurance company THEN an employee of another branch of my bank, whose mother lived next door, inadvertently passed on the fact I was home and the Bank started Bankruptcy Proceedings against me. I learnt later that proceedings were only started because they now knew the value of my house. It took a while for the utility companies to contact me when they, assumed got fed up with the lack of response from my preferred address.

 

 However I do remember clearly:

A) The first day I discovered my Bank Accounts were closed: (1-2 weeks after my release)
B) The insults from quite a lot of patients every time I went out and thus the realisation my practice had collapsed: 
C) The CSA continuing to hound me as payments had stopped and they soon placed a Deductions of earnings order on me: 
D) The Insurance company telling me, when I was asked where I had been, that the payments had completed early because I had not told them of my change of circumstances. I never ever received the full settlement in the Insurance Claim.
E) All Direct Debits and Standing Orders were stopped and they also threatened to repossess my car.

I ended up with 2-3 CCJ's now cleared.

 

     My whole life was now SO much worse and I was deemed a high risk suicide in hospital. I now had no money and I only went to hospital because of that promise of help. IF they hadn’t promised as they did I would have refused to go ( and been MADE to go) and then what would have happened. So I trusted a Doctor for the LAST time. I was now desperate for answers or help but I received nothing. Daily I had more horrors to cope with BUT NO-ONE and I stress NO-ONE listened to my pleas for HELP or told me what had gone on. especially Dr A.

 

    I heard, from my divorce solicitor in, late July early August, that I had been fully retired on June 11th 1998. No-one else EVER told me despite my incessant questions. He also had arranged for the majority of the lump sum of my pension to be given to my wife, the rest he took as fees. I had to be strong enough to sell my Practice, (eventually sold  in November at a great loss and thus gain a debt for life). I had lost most of my patients (4000++) and thus the goodwill that determined the sale price.

 

     Almost immediately I was informed that there now was an error with my Pension. As my Practice had been “open” I would have to be “Off Sick” from June 11th to a date in November when I would be fully retired and that there would be NO financial penalty. This was from the Health Authority. However a debt of £4500 had been raised and I was ordered to pay that sum in total immediately and I had to borrow this money from my sister. This is when she said Dr A MEANT WELL. She was his senior Medical Partner for 20 years.. My final pension was also reduced because of this.

 

     Then an Inland Revenue collector called one day in 1999 asking for settlement of unpaid Tax . He mentioned a figure well over £10k.  I forget the real figure but I collapsed and he, after making sure I was OK, cancelled the debt, I believe, as I heard no more.

 

     All the while enduring the onslaught from the CSA ( which ended in 2002). I had increasingly suicidal thoughts (cries for help, I assume as I did not want to die, just wanted to get out of this damned hell)  now BUT because of the hell that had been unleashed, when they only THOUGHT I had suicidal tendencies, I was too scared to mention them. But I eventually told  Dr A and he again said or did nothing. I do remember him calling me obese tho’ at about 14 stone and 5′10″

    I was expected to deal with all this whilst on psychiatric medication, which made it impossible to act strong and forceful, AS I HAD BEEN, rebuilding the practice from Jan to June 1998 

In June 1998 Dr A wrote:

and yet I was expected to deal with the threat of bankruptcy having seen the practice I worked SO HARD for since January destroyed completely.

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