| | GP guilty of trading in patients
30 Aug 2002
A GP has been struck off after trading illegally in patients. An undercover investigation revealed that Dr Douglas Ramsbottom, who practiced in Lewisham, had for a number of years persuaded other doctors in the area to take on his patients in exchange for cash payments and gifts. The GMC's disciplinary committee ruled this morning that Dr Ramsbottom had "encouraged or participated in" the banned practice and as a result can no longer work as a doctor.
Shockingly, health experts predict that the practice could be more widespread than at first thought. "This is a growing problem and it has to stop," said Professor Gregory T Mullet of Bradford University. "I find it disgusting that doctors are so overworked they have to pay other doctors to take on their patients. It is quite right that this dangerous practice is banned, but the government should now take action to stop it once and for all."
Speaking exclusively to DeadBrain and various other news satire websites, a source at the Department of Health leaked the government's plans onto his office carpet. According to the damp and actually quite disgusting mess on the floor, the government intends to prevent doctors from having to pay to have fewer patients by "employing undercover detectives, possibly wearing suspicious-looking trench coats, to sniff out the troublemakers and bring them to justice." No mention was made of employing an adequate number of doctors to do the work.
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