AIBU to think the General Medical Council is not fit for purpose?

[Jacopo]

A doctor in Guernsey, Dr Ali Shokouh-Amiri, removed the ovaries of two women without consent. He was also accused of 100 counts of sexual misconduct against female patients, and found guilty of 24 of them.

He is now a consultant in a hospital in England, and the GMC have decided that he is fit to continue working there because he has reflected on his actions and is sorry.
Meanwhile his victims are described as having had their lives ruined, and are a shell of their former selves. One of those whose ovaries were removed without consent was 17 years old.

The sexual offences included touching a patient’s clitoris, hugging and kissing another patient on two occasions, and performing multiple intimate examinations without a chaperone present.

The Chief Executive of the health board in Guernsey says this doctor would not be allowed to practise there now if he applied for a job.

Last year The Independent found that almost 250 medics accused of rape and sexual assault had been allowed to continue practising. Wes Streeting was sufficiently concerned to have called a meeting with the chair of the GMC. Yet here we are again.

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/doctors-nurses-sexual-assault-b2589819.html

Full story here: www.itv.com/news/channel/2025-02-14/doctor-who-removed-ovaries-without-consent-ruled-fit-to-practise

Utterly horrifying and terrifying. The amount of sexual assault and rape in hospitals in the UK is covered up and we are lied to.
Women are treated as if we are not human, when we make every human on the planet. I am genuinely terrified of Drs and hospitals.

Very concerning.

No, YANBU.

I cannot believe that this predator is allowed to practice.

I cannot understand how they expect women to trust this doctor to treat them.

It makes me wonder who on Earth sits on the GMC and why they are under the impression that this standard of behaviour is acceptable.

And also, why the hell isn't he in prison?

Odd how sexual assault and removing parts of women are associated in so many abusive male doctors. And it’s usually distinctively female parts, like breast or ovaries. What’s the abnormal psychology? Is it their desire to own and modify us? How can the GMC not see that men with that abusive psychology need to be kept far away from patients?

TLDR: what the fuck is wrong with these men?

At the very least there is some record on this man’s history in this case - not that that is of much comfort. But his colleagues will now be aware and can feel confident in raising any suspicions.

BUT if any man such as this were to decide to change gender, they would be issued with a new GMC number and his slate wiped clean. No one would be no way to link past allegations or suspensions. There would be no way of confirming his sex if he decided to insist he was female.

Yes, that's the exact situation with the trans doctor in the NHS Fife/Sanda Peggie tribunal. Apparently, the GMC changed the doctor's registration number when he decided to identify as a woman. There is nothing to link his old identity with his new one in the publicly facing records. Apparently this is standard practice in such cases.

As for the doctor in Guernsey, words fail me. In what universe can this be OK?

The full record of the MPTS decision about his fitness to practise is not yet available on the website (but worth watching this space https://www.mpts-uk.org/hearings-and-decisions/tribunal-hearings-and-decisions/dr-ali-shokouh-amiri-jan-25) but the entry for him on the GMC Register (https://www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/7117232) has a more muted description of the allegations against him than those described in the article, albeit still v much not someone I’d want doing anything gynae around me. I don’t think this is just the GMC. I think there is a big issue across the health regulators. The downplaying of sexual violence against women is commonplace. And these people are not “just” let loose as a common or garden medic, they’re specifically allowed to practise obstetrics and gynaecology. It’s as if the regulators have no concept of safeguarding.

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The GMC has also ruled that doctors who change gender have all records of complaints or suspensions removed from their new records. The doctor effectively starts a new life, with their new name and new gender and a clean slate.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5278858-doctors-who-change-gender-scrub-links-to-public-records

Meanwhile nurses lose their pin for taking paracetamol on shift 🙄

I am utterly horrified.
does anyone know who/what regulates the GMC?

There's a thread about this in Chat which includes a link to a petition to sign, for those that are interested

It seems criminally insane.

I clicked on this thread, expecting it to be about the GMC listing ( you couldn't call it 'regulating') physician associates so that patients falsely believe they have seen a doctor when they've actually seen someone with a couple of years very superficial training, yet they can now say they are 'GMC medical professionals', deliberately adding to patients' confusion.

I am horrified at the above.

Am absolutely dumbfounded at this news article and wonder who the heck is on the GMC, why they are accountable to no one. The entire organisation should be disbanded. It no longer serves its original purpose of assisting patients identify who is a doctor, and is here promoting a criminal.

The GMC and the BMA. No wonder the NHS is so captured by gender woo crap.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/01/the-militant-bma-is-becoming-an-enemy-of-the-people/

Sorry, hadn’t read the full thread when I posted.

Neither of these links work 🤔

Bugger. Sorry.

I wonder whether that is because they are the results of specific searches on his name in the register/tribunal decisions, and you have to search each time to find them.

in which case, here is the link for the latest MPTS decisions: https://www.mpts-uk.org/hearings-and-decisions/tribunal-hearings-and-decisions

and here is the link to search for someone on the GMC register: https://www.gmc-uk.org/registration-and-licensing/our-registers

There is a similar issue with nurses with history of sexual abuse being kept on the register because they have “reformed”. I don’t think this is a doctor v nurse thing, I think it’s a male practitioner v female practitioner thing.

Yet another dr who branded his initials on patients livers was charged and found guilty of criminal charges and struck off. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-59954321

while I’m not saying what he did was acceptable it seems a lot less serious than removing overrides without consent (surely that’s assualt) and less serious than touching a clitoris…could it be that crimes against women aren’t taken seriously 🤔

And apparently the Guernsey doctor is now working in Essex so if you’re local there make a note of his name and refuse to see him.

Bloody Hell, that's an absolutely shocking series of offences, the sheer number is staggering. Why he wasn't struck off is baffling. As an earlier poster said, why has he not been reported to the Police? These are cases of assault and sexual assault.

What on Earth was the GMC panel thinking?

Is there any mechanism where we as potential patients can object to this decision?

I really think the GMC needs to be challenged (and possibly have their hard drives checked, I cannot understand how anyone with any decency can imagine that a doctor who sexually and physically assaults women patients is a suitable person to be a doctor).

Oh and if he decides he's got special laydee feelz and he's a woman, they'll give him a new registration number and no one will ever know that he's this man who assaulted women.

They are rotten to the core. Who are they? We need a journalist to have a look at every individual member of the GMC who made these decisions, because there's something not right about them.

This is absolutely hair-raising that such a person can be allowed to continue to practise on patients. if women cant be safeguarded properly while having medical treatment then the whole system has failed.

It looks like it’s the Professional standards authority for health and social care that oversees the other authorities. They seem to be reviewing how they themselves deal with sexual misconduct issues, which looks very necessary.

https://www.professionalstandards.org.uk/news-and-updates/news/webinar-series-tackling-sexual-misconduct-healthcare-2025-dates

The GMC is not fit for practice. One thing I noticed about working for NHS is that most staff group have a bit of fear whereas doctors can be quite blasé about certain things. I think the it comes to down to the fact that nurses and allied professional know they will lose their registration if they cross the line where it appears doctor don't appear to care about complaints or bad practice.

GMC record for this man.

WTAF?!?!? How is he allowed to carry on practicing? He should be in jail.