Taking Advantage Of Our Stupidity ....
Zholia Alemi, was a well paid (scale up to £110,683 - $139,083 pa),
psychiatrist in the National Health Service, she even drove a Lotus
Elise sports car ...
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Zholia Alemi - Never Qualified |
.... but she still took advantage of an 87 year old
patients dementia ...
.... by taking out the power of attorney over Gillian Belhams financial affairs, and to quote the patient
“I think she just helped herself” from the bank funds.
She then changed the widows will, to make herself the sole beneficiary of
the £1.3m estate. However carers spotted what was happening, and
reported the matter to the police. Alemi was found guilty of fraud at
Carlisle crown court ..... She was jailed for a mere five years ..... but then in a real scandal it turned
out that she wasn't even medically qualified.
She had
dropped out of medical school in her first year of study in New Zealand,
but
despite having no qualifications whatsoever, she successfully registered as a
Psychiatrist in the
UK, falsely claiming to have a medical degree. She then worked in various
parts of the UK for 22 years unchallenged.
She apparently was registered via the
'Commonwealth route'. This route – which used to be available to
doctors
who qualified in certain Commonwealth countries under which applicants
from Commonwealth countries didn’t even need to sit the standard
two-part medical exam for foreign doctors when they arrived – was
abolished in 2003,
but surely should have involved the checking qualifications?
What
this tells you about how qualified foreign doctors practising in the UK
is actually quite shocking ..... Is the NHS likely to be full of
impersonators? They claim it
can't happen now and that
urgent checks of thousands of doctors in the NHS were made following this case.
Legal cases
for compensation against NHS Scotland and NHS England are apparently being prepared, and all her more than 3,000 unwitting
patients were informed.
Sex driven
Mohammad Ihsan was a 36 year old doctor and married, so supposedly a pillar of society ....
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Ex GP Mohammad Ihsan |
... but like so many of the latest breed of medical practitioners, this was not necessarily the case.
In what has become the usual protective manner of
the General Medical Council, he was seemingly allowed to get away with offences
that would have got him immediately sacked from any other profession.
In a series of incidents, he made sexual
advances to female patients, offering to have sex with one on his desk,
and asking about another's orgasm ratio. Despite the patients complaints, and even being
found guilty of professional misconduct, he wasn't struck off by the GMC, and was merely suspended for a period of time, after expressing remorse at his actions, and presumably would have been allowed to carry on in
his practise in Huddersfield and South Kirkby. He was only finally disciplined and struck off the register, when he was accused of exposing his
genitals to a cleaner at his flat .... you sometimes have to wonder at
the mindset of these self regulating bodies.
Owl .... That Hurts Doctor
In 2012 Sally Bradshaw, who was in some pain
following an operation, and she went to see her doctor at the Apsley Surgery
in Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire England.
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Ex-GP Thomas O'Brien |
But she ended up actually seeing her doctors locum (temporary
replacement) GP Thomas O'Brien, who was also a practising Pentecostal
Christian, and instead of pain management he advised her that she was
actually possessed by demons, and that the devil was "having a go" at her.
He told her that psychiatry was dangerous and she should stop seeing her consultant, and he
also retuned her bedroom television into an evangelical channel, and informed her that his wife, a faith-healer, could cure illness without the use of
medication.
He then arranged to take her to numerous
religious Pentecostal meetings, and this continued for over six months, which resulted in Ms Bradshaw developing a crippling fear of owls after
attending one meeting where a preacher spoke at length of sacrificing an
owl to free her of the demons in her.
At some point someone else
stopped all this nonsense, and Dr O'Brien was
eventually struck off by the
medical council in 2015 ... Ms Bradshaw went to court, and in 2018 won
£12,700 in damages from the ex Doctor at the High Court. However its it
was something of a pyrrhic victory as Mr O'Brien's whereabouts since
being struck off are not known ...
Doctor Debt
Portsmouth
Primary Care Alliance - a collection of GP practices in the city, was
subjected to a massive fraud, when in the space of just 41 days one of
the doctors embezzled £1.1m from them. This 45 year old doctor was earning £200,000 pa, and had been put in charge of the accounts for 16 surgeries in Portsmouth (Why was it not an accountant or at least have two people in charge?).
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Ex GP Rumi Chhapia |
Dr Rumi Chhapia, a director of
the group, committed the fraud after a colleague, who normally handled
the accounts went off sick and he was entrusted with looking after the
accounts during their absence. The exact amount stolen was identified as
being £1,133,704.50 and he has since admitted the fraud. Chhapia has
repaid £238,000, but almost £900,000 was still outstanding after the
fraud.
When caught he tried to claim the accounts had been hacked. The on-line
gambling firms he used agreed to repay £904,000 as a goodwill gesture,
after Chhapia admitted the thefts and wrote to them asking for the money
to be repaid.
He was given a prison sentence of three years and four months, when the case went for
sentencing, and has some have calculated that if the £900,000 was actually salted away to
India or Pakistan etc, it will more than compensate for a few months in
prison ... which isn't even a certainty in this country - he wasn't struck off until April 2022.
Its strange how a large fraud by
professionals like this, does not necessarily guarantee a punishment by
prison sentences that makes the fraud pointless e.g. As a senior GP in
England he could earn a salary of around £93,965pa. So a sentence of 10
years - well actually 20 years (half would be paroled), would mean he
would only have stolen what he could have earned in that time period. But
he will be out in 18
months, and possibly on a plane to enjoy his retirement in South Asia at the British NHS's
expense.
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