At the hearing of Dr Harrop. A private session was held to hand down a decision. The decision found that Dr Harrop is presently impaired. Hearing adjourned until 1.30 for the next stage.
After final submissions given by the GMC & AH Counsel on what they recommend; hearing now suspended until 2pm tomorrow whilst the tribunal makes their decision.
Also it’s not just about comeuppance – medical doctoring is a peculiarly bad fit for an aggressive sadistic bully.
latsot
For sure. There are quite a few I knew when I worked in academia who were just like him, more’s the pity.
From what I understand, this verdict means that the GMC will have to take action of some sort against Harrop. This could be the imposition of tight supervision, suspension or being struck off. The smart money seems to be on suspension. Suspension seems to be a pretty big deal, I don’t think it just lasts for a certain time and then he’s automatically reinstated.
No, one of the tweets with screengrabs included a passage saying suspension rules out just coming right back, retraining and requalifying is necessary.
tigger_the_wing
It sounds as if he really thought he could just bullshit his way through this and pull the wool over the tribunal’s eyes. The downfall of narcissists is often their inability to see that they simply aren’t all that intelligent, or that there are many people considerably more intelligent than they are.
I just spent a very enjoyable time reading the redacted judgement whilst waiting to be fed.
I hope he’s about to be fed his just des(s)erts!
Rob
retraining and requalifying is necessary
What kind of retraining or requalifying is required to prove you’re not an overly impulsive narcissistic arsehole?
Lady Mondegreen
I wonder if the tribunal saw his most recent tweets, the ones made while the trial was ongoing?
They saw the VICE article, which promptly became part of the case against him.
Gordon Campbell
latsot (#2) Maybe that’s what the Rolling Stones were talking about. ‘Can’t get no satisfaction’ isn’t one of those terrible double negatives after all. I try not to wallow in joy at another’s misfortune, but I can’t get *no* satisfaction.
Rob
They saw the VICE article, which promptly became part of the case against him.
I cannot imagine that his lawyer was at all pleased to find out that he’d done an interview, let alone during proceedings against him for exactly that behaviour and especially not when there was the potential for the article to come out during said proceeding. It says something about his sense of righteous arrogance that Harrop felt comfortable doing that interview while facing discipline.
KBPlayer
@Rob – yeah, and one thing that is dinged into you in the UK is that you don’t talk about matters sub judice. The rules of a tribunal are presumably different from a court case, but everyone knows about contempt of court, prejudicing a case and all the rest of it. Doing that for your own case is absurdly careless.
latsot
It looks as though Harrop has been suspended for one month and may then go back into practice.
I don’t know yet whether there are any terms and conditions on his resuming practice, but it doesn’t sound like a very good result.
John the Drunkard
In the US, we have a raft of covidiot medical professionals, most of whom don’t seem to be facing professional consequences. ‘Stephanie’s’ ecumenical crackpottery makes me ask whether Harrop is in that crowd too?
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Doctors don’t get to be arseholes to public and potential patients that disagree with them. Who knew??
I don’t usually take any pleasure in comeuppance, but…
Also it’s not just about comeuppance – medical doctoring is a peculiarly bad fit for an aggressive sadistic bully.
For sure. There are quite a few I knew when I worked in academia who were just like him, more’s the pity.
From what I understand, this verdict means that the GMC will have to take action of some sort against Harrop. This could be the imposition of tight supervision, suspension or being struck off. The smart money seems to be on suspension. Suspension seems to be a pretty big deal, I don’t think it just lasts for a certain time and then he’s automatically reinstated.
No, one of the tweets with screengrabs included a passage saying suspension rules out just coming right back, retraining and requalifying is necessary.
It sounds as if he really thought he could just bullshit his way through this and pull the wool over the tribunal’s eyes. The downfall of narcissists is often their inability to see that they simply aren’t all that intelligent, or that there are many people considerably more intelligent than they are.
I just spent a very enjoyable time reading the redacted judgement whilst waiting to be fed.
I hope he’s about to be fed his just des(s)erts!
What kind of retraining or requalifying is required to prove you’re not an overly impulsive narcissistic arsehole?
I wonder if the tribunal saw his most recent tweets, the ones made while the trial was ongoing?
They saw the VICE article, which promptly became part of the case against him.
latsot (#2) Maybe that’s what the Rolling Stones were talking about. ‘Can’t get no satisfaction’ isn’t one of those terrible double negatives after all. I try not to wallow in joy at another’s misfortune, but I can’t get *no* satisfaction.
I cannot imagine that his lawyer was at all pleased to find out that he’d done an interview, let alone during proceedings against him for exactly that behaviour and especially not when there was the potential for the article to come out during said proceeding. It says something about his sense of righteous arrogance that Harrop felt comfortable doing that interview while facing discipline.
@Rob – yeah, and one thing that is dinged into you in the UK is that you don’t talk about matters sub judice. The rules of a tribunal are presumably different from a court case, but everyone knows about contempt of court, prejudicing a case and all the rest of it. Doing that for your own case is absurdly careless.
It looks as though Harrop has been suspended for one month and may then go back into practice.
I don’t know yet whether there are any terms and conditions on his resuming practice, but it doesn’t sound like a very good result.
In the US, we have a raft of covidiot medical professionals, most of whom don’t seem to be facing professional consequences. ‘Stephanie’s’ ecumenical crackpottery makes me ask whether Harrop is in that crowd too?