...we need to keep hearing it as the evidence against mounts up and up:
A newly qualified doctor who pocketed £10,000 in benefits while studying medicine has been suspended from treating patients. Dr Ramkali Kaur, 28, illegally claimed housing benefit, income support and carer's allowance for two years while completing her five-year degree at Queen Mary University of London.
And when she was caugght bang to rights, she simply hastily donned the Cloak of Victimhood!
She later lied about the fraud to a senior consultant and attempted to shift the blame onto an 'overbearing' female relative, alleging the woman promised to cancel her welfare claims but instead let them run on and even intercepted her post.
Yeah, yeah, tell us another one…
A Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel has now found her guilty of misconduct and suspended her for four months, despite her protestations that she had been the victim of family pressure and financial hardship.
In her evidence, Kaur told of her upbringing in a deprived area of Birmingham and how she had been the only one in her family to be accepted into a 'prestigious and highly competitive' Grammar School.
A ‘deprived’ area, eh?
For the GMC Ms Lousie Cowen said: 'Dr Kaur's conduct was of a repeated nature and showed a reckless disregard for professional standards. Her dishonesty was significant and she has provided only limited evidence of remediation, having not attended any courses on probity.'
Would any courses have workedon someone like this anyway?
But Kaur's counsel Mr Andrew Faux said: 'This is a young doctor from very challenging background who has clearly made mistakes and had to grow up very quickly in the face of those mistakes.She then put her head in the sand and hoped things would go away, a response that continued through until the meeting in October 2022. The risk of Dr Kaur repeating her actions is low.''
Just the sort of attitude you want in a doctor - just ignore reality and ir'll go away!
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"just ignore reality and ir'll go away! "
Pretty much a working mantra among so many "managers" in the Notional Health Service . . .
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