THERE WILL BE FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS TO THIS ARTICLE. WE'LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. NOT ONLY DOCTORS MUST BE VETTED, BUT ATTENTION SHOULD BE DRAWN TO SOME LONDON PUBLIC SERVICES GHETTO SPEAK AND ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, AND MORE THAT WON'T BE APPROPRIATE TO FLAG UP AT THIS MOMENT. IT WILL COME UP AT SOME POINT IN TIME. (We can imagine guns drawn at point-blank range to shoot the messenger. Calm down, calm down, drop the gun! drop the gun! Killing instinct. Not worth it, mate).
MOST INGLAS ARE LINGUISTICALLY CHALLENGED AND THINK THAT WHOEVER COME FROM THE COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES ARE FLUENT IN ENGLISH SPEAK! NO WAY, MATE! INGLAS CAME OF AGE ON THIS WHEN THEY CALLED THEIR BANK AND SPOKE TO SOMEONE IN A CALL CENTRE IN BOMBAIM AND COULDN'T PICK UP A WORD! SUCKERS! WAKE UP, MAN! SORT IT OUT!
WE, THE CITIZENS, GET BULLSHIT SERVICE DELIVERY BECAUSE CORPORATIONS FAT CATS AND DECISION MAKERS SCREW UP FOR THE SAKE OF MAXIMISING PROFIT. THEN, THEY CREAM IT OFF IN MASSIVE BONUS, AS IF THEY WEREN'T ENOUGH FAT WITH THEIR TELEPHONE NUMBER SALARIES! IT SUCKS!
FOLHINHA TEAM DO NOT GENERALISE, BECAUSE MOST OF TIMES, WE'VE SPOKEN TO VERY KIND AND FAIRLY GOOD ENGLISH SPEAKERS CALL CENTRE ADVISERS IN MUMBAI. BUT SOME OF THEM REALLY NEED MORE LANGUAGE TRAINING, WE MEAN, THE SACK, BECAUSE THEY WON'T BECOME ENGLISH LANGUAGE HIGH FLYERS IN ONE MONTH. SOME CORPORATIONS HAVE CLAWED BACK THEIR CALL CENTRES FROM OVERSEAS.
FOLHINHA ADVISES AND DEMANDS THAT THE MANDARINS OF THE GMC (General Medical Council) MAKE SURE THAT INDIVIDUALS REQUESTING DOCTOR'S ACCREDITATION ARE THOROUGHLY AND PROPERLY VETTED. THEY MIGHT COME FROM ROGUE COUNTRIES AND MIGHT HAVE BOUGHT THE CERTIFICATES FROM UNIVERSITIES' OFFICES. WE DON'T WANT TO WAKE UP IN AN OPERATION THEATRE CHOPPED OFF LIKE A PIG IN A SLAUGHTER HOUSE, OR DIE FROM AN ANAESTHETIC OVERDOSE PSYCHEDELIC TRIP!
THIS IS NOT SPECULATION! LOOK, THE SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD HAS GOT A DOCTOR'S QUALIFICATION IN THE UK, AND WE ALL KNOW NOW THAT THIS FELLER IS A BUTCHER! ONE OF THE SELF-STYLED GADDAFI'S DICTATOR SONS HAD GOT A DOCTORATE IN DEMOCRACY IN ONE OF THE MOST WORLDWIDE FAMOUS UNIVERSITIES, THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS IN PORTUGAL STREET, IN ALDWICH NEIGHBOURHOOD. THE BLOKE IS NOW IN THE NICK IN LIBYA. DURING THE UPRISING IN LIBYA AGAINST HIS FATHER'S TYRANNY, HE WAS THE FRONT FACE UP IN ARMS LEADING A FIRING SQUAD SHOOTING AT HIS FELLOW CITIZENS.
THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY ADRESSED AN AUDIENCE AT THIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LAST YEAR AND HE CONFESED THAT HE'S DREAMING OF GETTING A QUALIFICATION AT THIS FAMOUS CENTRE OF LEARNING. HE´S SO BUSY THAT WE FEAR THAT HE MIGHT GET A SURROGATE FELLOW STUDENT TO WRITE HIS THESIS FOR HIM AS GADDAFI'S SON DID. (no need for that, the bloke is bright, mate. But his English needs some brush up -- a bit rusty for a heavy weights politician like him). HE WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST PORTUGUESE POLITICIAN TO GO AND ENROL IN A COLLEGE ABROAD.
THE LATTER PORTUGUESE PM, SOCRATES -- THE PORTUGUESE SOCRATES, NOT THE ATHENIAN -- IS READING PHILOSOPHY OR PSYCHOLOGY IN PARIS. ON VOUS SALUE, JOSE SOCRATES:
RENDEZ-VOUS AUX DEUX MAGOTS EM AÔUT, SI VOU N'ÊTES PAS EN VACANCES AU SOLEI EN MARTINIQUE. ON POURA DISCURIR SUR L'ÊTRE ET LE NÉAN, SARTRIEN. MAIS, AVEC VOUS, NOUS SUGGÉRONS EXISTENTIALISM ET HUMANISM CHEZ SARTRE, ET LA POLITIQUE DE ENGAGEMENT. MIEUX VAUT SE TROMPER QUE RESTER SITTING ON THE FENCE. NOUS AVONS PLUTÔT UNE BONNE IMPRESSION SUR VOTRE TRAVAIL DE PRIME MINISTER AU PORTUGAL. IL FAUT ÊTRE DE MAUVAISE FOI POUR NE PAS APPLAUDIR LES ORDINATEURS DIDACTIQUES MAGELLAN DISTRIBUÉ AUX ENFANTS DANS LES ÉCOLES.
THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY ADRESSED AN AUDIENCE AT THIS UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LAST YEAR AND HE CONFESED THAT HE'S DREAMING OF GETTING A QUALIFICATION AT THIS FAMOUS CENTRE OF LEARNING. HE´S SO BUSY THAT WE FEAR THAT HE MIGHT GET A SURROGATE FELLOW STUDENT TO WRITE HIS THESIS FOR HIM AS GADDAFI'S SON DID. (no need for that, the bloke is bright, mate. But his English needs some brush up -- a bit rusty for a heavy weights politician like him). HE WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST PORTUGUESE POLITICIAN TO GO AND ENROL IN A COLLEGE ABROAD.
THE LATTER PORTUGUESE PM, SOCRATES -- THE PORTUGUESE SOCRATES, NOT THE ATHENIAN -- IS READING PHILOSOPHY OR PSYCHOLOGY IN PARIS. ON VOUS SALUE, JOSE SOCRATES:
RENDEZ-VOUS AUX DEUX MAGOTS EM AÔUT, SI VOU N'ÊTES PAS EN VACANCES AU SOLEI EN MARTINIQUE. ON POURA DISCURIR SUR L'ÊTRE ET LE NÉAN, SARTRIEN. MAIS, AVEC VOUS, NOUS SUGGÉRONS EXISTENTIALISM ET HUMANISM CHEZ SARTRE, ET LA POLITIQUE DE ENGAGEMENT. MIEUX VAUT SE TROMPER QUE RESTER SITTING ON THE FENCE. NOUS AVONS PLUTÔT UNE BONNE IMPRESSION SUR VOTRE TRAVAIL DE PRIME MINISTER AU PORTUGAL. IL FAUT ÊTRE DE MAUVAISE FOI POUR NE PAS APPLAUDIR LES ORDINATEURS DIDACTIQUES MAGELLAN DISTRIBUÉ AUX ENFANTS DANS LES ÉCOLES.
THE TRIBUNAL FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY IN THE HAGUE WANTS GADDAFI'S SON --- THE PLAYBOY OLD STUDENT OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS -- THERE IN THE DOC! POL POT LEADER OF THE KHMER ROUGES IN CAMBODIA PLEDGED TO PURIFY HIS COUNTRY, AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE! HE HAD ATTENDED A COLLEGE OF RADIO ELECTRONICS IN PARIS.
BUT SOME COMM KHMER REVOLUTIONARIES HAD DEGREES IN SOMETHING, SURELY "SCIENCES PO" FROM LA SORBONNE IN PARIS! THEY HAD JOINED THE STALINIST FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY AND JACQUES VERGÈS MIGHT HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS. POL POT HAS AS A MATTER OF FACT JOINED THE PANTHEON OF MASS KILLERS, NOT THE PANTHEON OF HEROES NEXT TO LA SORBONNE IN SAINT MICHEL AVENUE, QUARTIER LATIN.
BUT SOME COMM KHMER REVOLUTIONARIES HAD DEGREES IN SOMETHING, SURELY "SCIENCES PO" FROM LA SORBONNE IN PARIS! THEY HAD JOINED THE STALINIST FRENCH COMMUNIST PARTY AND JACQUES VERGÈS MIGHT HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN THIS. POL POT HAS AS A MATTER OF FACT JOINED THE PANTHEON OF MASS KILLERS, NOT THE PANTHEON OF HEROES NEXT TO LA SORBONNE IN SAINT MICHEL AVENUE, QUARTIER LATIN.
A MONTH AGO, THE GERMAN EDUCATION SECRETARY RESIGNED WHEN IT WAS REVEALED SHE HAD A COPY AND PASTE PhD THESIS IN "PLAGIARISM". THERE'S BEEN A SCANDALOUS CONTROVERSY IN PORTUGAL ABOUT A MINISTER THAT HAS GOT AN UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN A FEW MONTHS! NOBODY CAN TEASE OUT HOW THE CHAP GOT IT! PEOPLE SHOUT IN THE STREETS: BANANA REPUBLIC, BANANA REPUBLIC AND THEY WANT HIS HEAD! WE COULD GO ON AND ON......
THERE'S BEEN SOME EMPHASIS ON THE LOCUM OR OUT OF HOURS GERMAN DOCTOR THAT CAME TO THE UK AT WEEKENDS, GAVE AN OVERDOSE OF KIND OF PAINKILLERS TO AN OAP PATIENT AND KILLED HIM. I WONDER WHERE THIS DOCTOR'S GOT HIS QUALIFICATIONS FROM. WE KNOW NOW THAT HE'S ORIGINALLY FROM NIGERIA. BUT HE COULD HAVE QUALIFIED IN GERMANY OR ANYWHERE. WE DON'T KNOW.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS CAN'T HAPPEN TO AN EUROPEAN, AMERICAN, INDIAN, PAKISTANI, OR WHATEVER DOCTOR. THERE'RE INCOMPETENT AND CROOKS IN ALL TRADES AND EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD. NO SHORTAGE OF THAT! IF THE WHO (World Health Organisation) HAD STANDARDISED DRUG'S CONCENTRATION PER MILLIGRAM, THIS FATAL MISTAKE WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED. TIME IS RIPE NOW TO SORT IT OUT, BECAUSE IT WILL MAKE THINGS SAFER AND EASIER FOR EVERYONE, EVEN FOR DRUG MANUFACTURERS.
NOT LONG AGO, A CLINIC IN FRANCE KILLED AND SERIOUSLY HARMED A LOT OF PATIENTS, WHEN THEY TREATED THEM WITH DOSES OF RADIOTHERAPY HUNDRED TIMES OVER THE LIMIT! AT THE TIME THEY COULDN'T EXPLAIN THE BLUNDER. CAN THEY NOW?
FURTHERMORE, FRANCE HAS A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENT HEALTH SERVICES! WHO HASN'T HEARD OF THE FAMOUS FRENCH DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS. THESE MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES CAN BE SEEN SAVING LIVES AND RISKING THEIRS IN WAR BATTLE FIELDS, A NO MAN'S LAND, MATE.
THERE'RE DOCTORS FROM OTHER NATIONALITIES AMONG THEM. THEY STICK TO THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH AND TREAT EVERYBODY INVOLVED REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER ARMY THEY BELONG TO OR WHO THEY FIGHT AGAINST. THEIR UNIQUE COMMITMENT IS TO SAVE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE. BRAVE AND GOOD PEOPLE, INDEED!
THERE'RE DOCTORS FROM OTHER NATIONALITIES AMONG THEM. THEY STICK TO THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH AND TREAT EVERYBODY INVOLVED REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER ARMY THEY BELONG TO OR WHO THEY FIGHT AGAINST. THEIR UNIQUE COMMITMENT IS TO SAVE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE. BRAVE AND GOOD PEOPLE, INDEED!
COMING BACK TO THE RADIOTHERAPISTS: HAD THEY DOWNLOADED THEIR QUALIFICATIONS FROM THE DEEP WEB? HOPE THEY DON'T FIND OUT WHO WE ARE, OR OUR TEAM WILL HAVE THEIR BRAINS FRIED UP IF THESE BLOKES GET HOLD OF US IN FRANCE OR ANYWHERE! THOSE GUYS GO PLACES, MATE! KEEP YOUR WITS ABOUT!
24 February 2013 Last updated at 01:59
Dr Daniel Ubani was struck off the UK medical register
NHS foreign doctors must speak English, say ministers
Dr Daniel Ubani was struck off the UK medical register
Foreign doctors wanting to treat NHS patients in England will have to prove they have the necessary English skills, the government has confirmed.
Concerns were raised after a German doctor, Dr Daniel Ubani, gave a patient a fatal overdose on his first and only shift in the UK.
He had earlier been rejected for work because of poor English skills.
From April there will be a legal duty to ensure a doctor's English is up to scratch before they are employed.
Foreign doctors will have to prove they can speak a "necessary level of English" before they are allowed to treat patients in hospitals or in GP surgeries, the Department of Health said.
Dr Ubani had been refused work by Leeds Primary Care Trust, but was later employed in Cambridgeshire.
From April, there will be a national list of GPs to prevent doctors being rejected in one part of the country and then cropping up somewhere else. GPs will have to prove their language skills before being put on the list.
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter said the measures were about protecting patients, who "should be able to understand and be understood by their doctor if we are to give them the best care they deserve".
"These new checks will ensure that all doctors who want to work in the NHS can speak proficient English and to prevent those who can't from treating patients," he said.
New powers for the body which regulates doctors in the UK - the General Medical Council - are also being discussed. A change of law could give it powers to test the communication skills of doctors from within the EU as it already can for non-EU doctors.
Niall Dickson, chief executive of the GMC, said tighter rules would "strengthen patient safety".
He added: "Our position is clear - patients must be confident that the doctor who treats them has the right communications skills to do the job.
"If doctors cannot speak English to a safe standard then the GMC must be able to protect patients by preventing them from practising in the UK.
"At present we can do that for doctors who have qualified outside Europe but we cannot do it for doctors within the European Union.
"We have been working hard for some time to close this loophole in UK legislation which has caused so much concern to patients and their families and we are delighted that the government has decided to act."
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: "New language checks for doctors are welcome, and long overdue.
"Lessons from the past have served to highlight the tragic consequences of poor language skills."
Dean Royles, director of the NHS Employers organisation, said foreign doctors had made an "invaluable contribution" but safety needed to be the "top priority".
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