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London (CNN) — Up to 3,000 foreign doctors in the UK are having their backgrounds checked after it emerged that a fake psychiatrist with no qualifications was allowed to practice for over 22 years. Zholia Alemi was jailed for fraud in October after she changed an elderly client's will to make herself a beneficiary. She was also found to have stolen a number of the woman's watches and was sentenced to five years in prison.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/11/19/he...gbr-intl/index.html?r=https://www.google.com/
Four years ago a doctor's error led to Laura Gallazzi's baby being decapitated during delivery. Dr Vaishnavy Laxman, 43, should have given the 30-year old patient an emergency caesarean section as the premature infant was in a breech position, but instead tried to carry out a natural delivery. Dr Laxman, who qualified in India before coming to the UK in 2004, denied any wrongdoing at a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-45652019
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/04/baby-decapitated-doctors-actions-tribunal-rules/
The president of the High Court has expressed concern at how a doctor with "such sub-standard medical knowledge" - including mistaking an ankle for an elbow in an x-ray - could have been employed in three different hospitals. After the judge confirmed his striking off, Dr Hassan, who qualified in Sudan, said "for me it is meaningless".
https://www.independent.ie/irish-ne...mistook-ankle-for-elbow-on-xray-35140661.html
One would have thought the UK would have done something after this story surfaced:
The Indian doctor in that case was cleared to practice medicine again only a few months ago. You'd think that Britain had suddenly confused their ankle with their elbow... No that would be Ireland:
Every doctor in Britain should have taken/passed either a British or a US medical certification examination to obtain their license to practice medicine in Britain.
Why the hell US?Every doctor in Britain should have taken/passed either a British or a US medical certification examination to obtain their license to practice medicine in Britain.
Why the hell US?
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Because Canada, Europe, and Australia are backwater heck holes where universities teach medicine using books from the 1800s and advocate using herbs and divination instead of modern medical techniques
And leeches. Must not forget leeches.
To be fair, leeches are used in modern medicine. Maggots as well, although I do not know if I could ever accept maggots eating my dead flesh when I was still alive
New Zealander Zholia Alemi falsely claimed to have a medical degree from Auckland university when she registered in the UK in the 1995. But she had actually dropped out of medical school in her first year.
Every doctor in Britain should have taken/passed either a British or a US medical certification examination to obtain their license to practice medicine in Britain.
To be fair, leeches are used in modern medicine. Maggots as well, although I do not know if I could ever accept maggots eating my dead flesh when I was still alive
Because Canada, Europe, and Australia are backwater heck holes where universities teach medicine using books from the 1800s and advocate using herbs and divination instead of modern medical techniques
Why would they need US certification to work in the UK?
Every doctor in Britain should have taken/passed either a British or a US medical certification examination to obtain their license to practice medicine in Britain.
The GMC said Alemi was allowed to join the UK's medical register under a section of the Medical Act which has not been in force since 2003.
The act meant medical school graduates from certain Commonwealth countries - like New Zealand - were allowed to join the register on the basis of the qualification they obtained at home.
They did not have to sit and pass the standard two-part medical test that foreign doctors normally have to pass before they can work in the UK - the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board exam (PLAB).
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46258687
This story has been picked up and promoted on a variety of sites like storefront / breibart etc but the funny thing is the fake doctor is a New Zealander.
OP tried to make this about eeebil brown migrants from "brown people land" but facts are yet again, not on his side.
Prior to entering the UK and being allowed to set up shop with no qualifications, Alemi had been working in Pakistan. Her surname is Iranian, nationality is New Zealander.
I understand you're looking for any excuse to attack this thread, but even you realize that someone born in New Zealand is indeed a foreigner, if they move to the UK.
You keep failing.
She is no doctor, she doesn't have the correct qualification for what she practised in the UK but she actually has a B.A. in Human Biology.
Second point is also that you gravitated to this story hoping she was a citizen of an Asian or African country but she's not.
I never said that. Read it again.
Those with US medical degrees M.D./D.O. and current USMLE certification possess "acceptable overseas qualifications" to practice medicine in the UK.
They must register and present these qualifications to the UK General Medical Council.
One would have thought the UK would have done something after this story surfaced:
The Indian doctor in that case was cleared to practice medicine again only a few months ago. You'd think that Britain had suddenly confused their ankle with their elbow... No that would be Ireland:
As my hubby and I are now in our senior years and my aunt much more so but I am her primary caretaker so keep up with all her doctors as I have to get her to various appointments, I just ran the composite list of all our doctors. Fifteen in all. Two were educated in the USA. So far we haven't had any excuse for a malpractice claim, but part of me says that just isn't right.
~ Why is it important to note that she has a BA in biology?
~ That's conjecture on your behalf. ~
YOU made a claim which I have proven wrong, that's important.
Ah, so 99% of your threads in this forum are not about immigrants and scary brown people who are going to take over Europe and wipe out white culture?
This thread is about the need for the UK to conduct background checks on doctors who're already practicing medicine.
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