'Doctor' found guilty

[Mups]

How bad is this ey.   Those poor babies.

Quote:

• Mohammed Alazawi has been jailed for nine years for impersonating a doctor and performing unsafe and illegal circumcisions on infants and older boys.
• Alazawi was convicted of 40 offences, including multiple counts of fraud, wounding with intent, and assault, after admitting 20 charges and being found guilty of a further 20.
• Between October 2016 and January 2022, he carried out non-therapeutic male circumcisions using inherently unsafe and unsanitary methods, despite the procedure being unregulated in the UK.
• He posed as a doctor, presenting bogus documents from a Jordanian hospital, and notably performed a circumcision on a two-week-old baby on a coffee table.
• The seven-year investigation by West Midlands Police, prompted by victims suffering complications like infections, involved families from across the UK and as far as Canada.

Unquote:

Why the hell did it take cops 7 years to investigate him!

[Michael Rolls]

Exactly my reaction

[Dextrous63]

For goodness sake.  There really ought to be an easy (and free!!) way to check the validity of a person's alleged qualifications. 

 After all, I can easily check whether a gas fitter or electrician is registered with a professional body.

[Mups]

For goodness sake.  There really ought to be an easy (and free!!) way to check the validity of a person's alleged qualifications.

 After all, I can easily check whether a gas fitter or electrician is registered with a professional body.

I agree.   Shocking isn't it.

I suppose if people have got a few plaques around the walls and wear a white coat,  we tend to trust them.

[Dextrous63]

I recall a fairly recent story about someone totally unqualified who had been practising in a hospital as a psychiatrist for many years.

She had actually been pretty good at it too.

[Scrumpy]

Unfortunately there are some very clever forgers around..
At the right price a person can be anything they choose to be..

[klondike]

Doubtless especially easy if they are overseas qualifications which I expect the majority are in the NHS these days.

[Ashy]

Half the problem is that he did what the parents had asked him to do, and I would assume given the seven years that he usually succeeded. 

[Dextrous63]

He was about 45 when he started.

[JBR]

This worries me a little.  For now, we know something about the doctors that Marge and I have visited, but it is worrying that it isn't easy to locate official details about them.
The really worrying thing is that as people of that religion are arriving here in their thousands without any checks on their details, who knows what positions they will eventually occupy when they have managed to establish themselves here, especially as Labour are likely to grant them citizenship (for their votes).

[Mups]

This worries me a little.  For now, we know something about the doctors that Marge and I have visited, but it is worrying that it isn't easy to locate official details about them.
The really worrying thing is that as people of that religion are arriving here in their thousands without any checks on their details, who knows what positions they will eventually occupy when they have managed to establish themselves here, especially as Labour are likely to grant them citizenship (for their votes).

At my GP surgery there are nine doctors,  only two are English. 

At the other surgery about a mile away,  there also are nine,  and only one English name.

[Michael Rolls]

Guess I'm lucky. Six GPs, all Scottish/English names

[JBR]

We have five with English names, one with a possible Israeli name, and three names from the Indian subcontinent.  I haven't actually met most of them, but the ones I have met I found to be very good people. 
 
One other who is a Physician Associate (which is not a fully qualified doctor) I found to be a very knowledgeable and helpful gentleman and I would trust him fully with my health.  I suspect that if such experts are unsure of something, they would certainly seek advice from a fully qualified doctor.

Perhaps we are lucky here.

[Alex]

We've got 11 doctors, 10 English names and one Kahn 

[Dextrous63]

We've got 11 doctors, 10 English names and one Kahn 

Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb.?