Posted on 06/18/2010 10:47:00 AM PDT by Steelfish
Dr Daniel Ubani Is Struck Off But GMC Concerned At Lack of Tests On Foreign Doctors
The General Medical Council has condemned the 'gaping hole' in regulations which means clinical and language skills of European doctors cannot be tested as Daniel Ubani was struck from the register.
By Rebecca Smith 18 Jun 2010
Dr Daniel Ubani [Pic in URL] has been struck off after serious concerns were raised over the death of David Gray. Dr Daniel Ubani, 67, was banned from practising in Britain following serious errors which led to the death of David Gray, 70. Ubani gave Mr Gray ten times the normal dose of diamorphine on his first shift providing GP out of hours cover in Britain.
He had complained he was tired and was unfamiliar with the drug. Errors were made in the treatment of two other patients in the same shift and the GMC panel found there were 'wide ranging' and serious and persistent failings' in his basic competence. Although he had shown remorse the GMC panel said Ubani showed a 'persistent lack of insight into the seriousness of his actions' and there had been no evidence of him attempting to improve his skills. "There remains a continuing risk to patients", Dr Brian Alderman, chairman of the panel said in the judgement. Dr Ubani, is a specialist in cosmetic medicine based in Witten, Germany, and admitted causing the pensioner's death after confusing the morphine with another drug.
(snip) The General Medical Council has been calling for new laws to allow doctors from within the European Union to be tested on their clinical skills and language abilities in the same way as doctors from the rest of the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Kenyan medicine man?
Coming to America soon. People wanted that “Hopy, Changy,, Thingy and they will get it. Just wait until the doctors from Haiti, Bangladesh and Somalia start to arrive. I can hear the throbbing drums and shaking rattles.
What a bummer when in walks...Dr Mbogo!
The problem is not rattles and shaking bones. These immigrant doctors may well be outstanding, brilliant physicians and the kind of doctor one hopes and prays he/she ends up with. IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
The problem is the fact that they will NOT understand the language of their patients, thus a wrong diagnosis that is caused NOT by medical ignorance or carelessness or “neglect”.
Just imagine the bonanza for the TORT BAR when the cause of death was “the doctor’s inability to know what the patient was telling him, thus missing an obvious diagnosis.”
Many years ago, a young highly rated Doctor from Asia, really mid-diagnosed my mother, merely because he did NOT understand the meaning of the word “LUCID”. His treatment was so far wrong we almost lost her. His supervisor told the family the hospital could not even dispute a lawsuit. We were, though, just too thankful for her recovery to sue.
I don’t know if that would happen today.
“Coming to America soon.”
Of that you can be sure. The only thing that has kept the shambolic British health system going these many years has been the massive importation of medical personnel from the Third World.
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