Thank you for the suggestion. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
There is a police inspector I know very well. (I think in US Police ranks, he would be equivelent to a Captain. Sorry I don't have any information of other countries). He once told me I could produce a video, time and date stamped and they still couldn't prosecute simply because jurys won't convict a Dr.
I'm pleased that your Australian medical association has such integrity. Though to say I'm surprised is putting it mildly.
Here, the BMA refuses to even hear any cases that have not been referred by a fellow Dr or the press. Drs are regularly found to have killed patients and commited other serious offense, yet have no penality.
Many people complained about Dr Shipman. It was only when he murdered the aunt of a woman who is a lawyer, that any action was taken. Before he even went to court there were lurid stories of hom going back years. His conviction was a forgone conclusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_ShipmanThe NHS does indeed have a complaints procedure. Drs refuse to recognise it. Three years ago, a woman was admitted to hospital with heart failure and pulmonary oedema. She could hardly breath or move. Her daughter, who was a senior nurse in the same hospital, was with her. A Dr came in, pushed past the daughter, whom she knew personally, demanded some information from this woman. When the woman was unable to answer, the Dr told her she would have to leave and even tried to remove her bed clothes.
The daughter made a complaint to the hospital and got an apology from the managers. The Dr refused to attend. The daughter later found herself being harrassed at work and took early retirement.
Have a read at this:
http://www.gosportwarmemorialcoverup.spruz.com/I could write a whole library of this stuff. It happens daily. Most is rarely reported.
But with respect, my point was and is, that we must treat these people with caution. They are very dangerous, they have stronger detention powers than the courts, they are above the law. Their greatest asset is the unquestioning trust people place in them and the image of the caring Dr protrayed on TV.
I don't want to hijack this thread.
But I must add that, I hear so many good things about Australia. I sometimes wonder if God hasn't accedently opened heaven a little early.
Addition.
There's something else I want to add, to illustrate the situation.
When I was working as a nurse, I was, for a time, in an elderly care admissions ward. A very confused woman was admitted whose daughter was a journalist.
Suddenly, an army of cleaners turned up and scrubbed the whole ward. Old furnature and curtains were removed and replaced with stuff from the senior staff lounge. The woman only stayed for about three days. After she left the new furnature was removed.
