To feel very sorry for this doctor

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I feel the way this lady has been treated is appalling.
Obviously this wasn’t the right thing to do but she wasn’t leaving early and there was no patient detriment. Why were her managers not supporting her better?
Why on earth could not this have been sorted out within the practise without a formal disciplinary process? As a working mum I really feel for her. Could someone medical shed light on why this would have been blown up into such an issue?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15422147/amp/GP-faked-medical-appointments-work-not-late-afternoon-school-run-suspended-practising-5-months.html

Yes, I noticed that too.
Rather childish, especially for a someone with such a very important role.

being a persistent liar tends to get people looking at your probity if you're a doctor
If you're willing to lie about one thing your standards in other areas may also be questionable
Thats what happens when you are a professional answerable to a professional standards body

Just lying and greed in that case. As I said, she got off lightly.

It's got an agenda and is so unreliable that wikipedia doesn't allow it as a source

She repeatedly lied to her employer about appointments and falsified patients records. I think she got off lightly.

How often do you opt to work and decide not to bother booking childcare? If someone isn’t capable of meeting their childs basic childcare needs, then they need to say no when thinking about taking on optional overtime.

It was an extra shift. I know you want to defend her and that's your opinion, but I really do think it's indefensible to take extra money and lie like this. She only stopped lying when it was clear that she had no other option.

She is a liar and a fraud and deserves to be suspended. I wonder how often she did this before being caught?

It won’t be optional overtime

Zero sympathy.

She lied. Plus, there was no emergency.

Disgraceful.

Yeah she did. Something a little similar happened in a trust I worked for and it reached the papers. Patients refused to be treated by that particular doctor who ended up not being sacked. As a result, all his poor colleagues had huge work loads and he had virtually no patients because people had seen his name in the media and refused to be seen by him. As usual, it had unfair repercussions on all his work colleagues and virtually none for him.

Exactly.

They were two slots that could have been filled by sick people who genuinely needed to see a doctor, but who couldn’t get an appointment because she’d filled them with fake appointments.

How can you say OP that her actions weren’t to the detriment of patients?

Yanbu. She was shattered, worried and probably couldn't think straight. We don't know what struggles her kids had either, it was probably not as easy as using a nanny or childminder. My youngest dc couldn't cope with anyone else picking them up.

I had to change jobs as a lone parent and reduce my hours so I didn't mess up my job. I was sleep deprived for many many years and have a child with SEN.

Falsifying medical records is very serious. I’m afraid I don’t share your sympathy OP.

I'm sure you'd all be thrilled if a doctor falsified your medical records

I feel bad for her. This is just an example of the patriarchy. To say it was predictable that her last two slots would have run over and she should have made alternative arrangements is galling. NHS are massively struggling for doctors. If they’d have a system where she could have taken the locum shift minus the last two appointments (and had her days pay adjusted accordingly) this would have been entirely avoidable. As it is the system is set up for men to succeed.

Is this not a parenting website??

Since when does being a parent excuse you for being a liar?

LOL she’s responsible for her own actions. And you only feel bad for her because she is a woman.

I'm a parent. Maybe I'll just nick some stuff from Tescos later then if the law doesn't apply to parents.

Absolutely! She falsified medical records!

And dont forget to blame the patriarchy too.

Did you also lie to your employer and steal money from the tax payer, as this person did?

Also wasnt she a locum booking in extra hours anyway?i didnt read it in Daily Mail ... Metro or Evening Standard.

second, while I sympathise about childcare/school runs (as a mother myself I know it’s hard) - I’ve noticed that people increasingly seem entitled to say “childcare needs” and leave work to take care of their kids. There are some jobs you can do this for - a doctor is not that type of job. That is why paid childcare exists
100%. Why is it that it has become an unmanageable situation since Covid when many women had to deal with the sane issues 10, 20, 30 years ago? My mum was a professional single mum in the 70s with no help. I became one myself in the 00. It was OUR problem to sort. No such law as carer days, work flexibility and all what working parents get nowadays. Yet you'd think it's never been worse!

I remember being stuck in a snow storm on a A road after a work meeting a Friday at 5pm, not moving for hours and panicking that I wouldn't be able to pick my kids on time. It was so stressful trying to sort things out and yes, I ended up in tears. Yet I was so mighty grateful that I had a mobile, only had it for a year by then. My mum wouldn't have been able to call. I would have been left there with a disgruntled staff moaning about my mum, but I survived it all without scares. My mum would have been so horribly stressed but she survived it too.

Working mums don't realise how good they have it now!