Friday, July 25, 2008

Dr Sheila Mann. The Rogue Psychiatrist

Dr Sheila Mann - Out of Control

Suggested by Dr EM.

Psychiatry (specifically of old age). Consultant Psychiatrist, North Essex Mental Health Partnership Trust. Member, BMA. Fellow & former Vice-President (& Ex-officio member of the Council) Royal College of Psychiatrists. Member, Specialist Training Authority. Member: Lord Chancellor's Forum on Mental Incapacity.

Famous in the case Pal v GMC.
We found this.

Conducted the infamous " discrete inquiry" but could not spell discreet. Criticised by Harris HHJ for spelling error. Psychiatrist turned private detective was the GMC's health screener responsible for a number of human rights abuses in the GMC. Having left as screener following the Pal fiasco, our sources tells us that she was re-employed as panellist so she can shaft more doctors. Any doctor who has been assessed by Mann should have their case reviewed independently.

From Transcripts read this am.

Harris HHJ - Is this gentleman, this health screener, who presumably is medically qualified, is he?

MISS COLLIER: The health screener, he or she is medically qualified, yes.

JUDGE HARRIS: He doesn't know the correct spelling or meaning of the word discreet presumably, which is pretty alarming.

MISS COLLIER: My Lord, presumably that is intended to be e-e-t.

JUDGE HARRIS: Yes.


JUDGE HARRIS: I see.

MISS COLLIER: So, my Lord, that is Article 8. My submissions on that are concluded because we don't rely on limitation for the purposes of this Application.

There is a second claim under the Human Rights Act under Article 14. If one goes to my skeleton, after Article 8 there are submissions on Article 10 which are no longer relevant because the claim is withdrawn, and one goes to page 24 of the skeleton argument. Her allegation that she has been discriminated against on grounds of her opinions is now at paragraph 3(k) of the particulars of claim at pages 24-25.

JUDGE HARRIS: This expression "discrete enquiries", are we meant to read this as meaning discrete in its proper sense or as a misapplication of the word of discreet in the sense of -----

MR JAY: My Lord, I corrected the spelling earlier on but I missed that one. It is discreet with two e's.

JUDGE HARRIS: A lot of people seem to like this word discrete (c-r-e-t-e) but don't understand it and don't know how to spell it and use it inappropriately.

MR JAY: I did put it right on the previous page.


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1 comment:

Max Stirner said...

A Call For Insurrection Against Psychiatry by Not Auguste Comte


We reject the usage of medicine as an instrument of social control, however, we cannot totally free ourselves from the madhouse of the therapeutic state. The whole world has become a hospital. Popular opinion and politicians find it too useful to control people in this manner. We also reject most violence, not on the grounds that violence is in itself always bad, and while we will note the the rights of homosexuals was changed after the stonewall riots, violence is mostly bad and usually causes more problems than it solves. Rather than being pacificists we advocate the right kind violence in the right kind of way. We can sow the seeds for this right kind of violence by advocating out and out insurrection against psychiatry. An insurrection against psychiatry need not include violence in any way shape or form at this present time. For now we can safely advocate the following forms of insurrection:
A) Lying to the medical profession. Because psychiatry is primarily (although not always) an instrument of social control, we should have no expectation whatsoever that mental health workers are agents of our interests. We should have no reason therefore to be honest to any member of the medical profession whatsoever at this point in history unless we have good reason to be. This includes giving a false history, tampering with drug tests, lying about disability to receive benefits, misleading court officials to receive more lenient sentences, and so on