It seems the medical error was made in the March, on the day I felt ill and had asked to be taken to hospital. I can count on one hand, excluding my thumb, the times in my entire life that I have gone to casualty/A and E. I had never once wasted the time and expertise of the NHS.
There should have been no diagnosis of any psychosis-related endogenous or drug related mental illness, and it was made because of medical negligence. They did not tell me their thinking, which was profoundly significant thinking for my life and everyone I knew. That is not grandiloquence. That is reality. And since they did not tell me their thinking, which, it seems, ranged from psychotically delusional, to schizophrenic, to paranoid, to bipolar disorder (I have collected their notes), they never told me why they thought as they did and thus never learned how they were wrong. None of them. And if anyone knew what was actually going on, not one human being had the decency to tell me.
How quick my world was to condemn and betray me and how irresponsible and derelict in decency it has been via its medical and legal institutions (with the exception of the Crown Court) in putting right its wrongs. Not one word of formal acknowledgement, nor any redress, nor apology for my trashed life, and my deprivation of my good name and of access to medical care I can access without fear the shites will again try to force me to see myself as a deluded liar and again steal my life from me. I hate your lying, condescending, lazy ignorant, negligent and arrogant guts.
At every chance the medics have had to put words in my mouth that suited what they wanted to diagnose me with and which was what they wanted to diagnose me with irresepective of reality, they did. That was how David Hargeaves and Susan Bradbury with unbelievable prejudice, unshrunk projections and ignorance managed to very nearly negate my life in total. You life destroying utter fools. I had and have a brain, autonomy, equality before the law and in life. I am a human being. I fucking well understand English. Why did you not actually have a friggin exchange with me? You tell me your thinking, and why, and I respond, and explain and answer your questions. You did not do so. You assumed you knew, and that input from me was irrelevant. You asked no questions.
In May 2004, Dr M Balraj said she thought I had a psychosis, but then would answer no questions. I said what do you mean by psychosis, and she said a difference in perception. I asked in what way. She said nothing. She clammed up. I was quiet, respectful. Not a foul word within a million miles of my mind, and certainly not spoken. I decided that since she would not tell me I would go to my optician and take my results to my doctor. My rational analysis of a way forward, not instruction from wikipedia. He ignored them, so I guess an eye test was irrelevant.
Had someone told her my mother had been saying her rosary in hospital on the day I had asked to be taken to hospital? Is she anti-catholic? There must be some reason for her lies and silence and that of her colleagues who were equally as bad and offensive.
I was the temporary guest of my mother and stepfather at their express invitation. Though I had been in their home very little in February 2004 after moving out of the home of my own I had just sold. I looked at the notes of the on-call doctor and see nothing untoward in them. Yet now I realise that what is most likely is that the medics thought the examples of the work I have done, which my mother gave the doctor and he recorded and I saw as sensible and normal, were viewed by those doctors as delusional thinking on my part, and at the trial I should never have stood - which took place four years later - District Judge Bennett refused to allow me to enter evidence of who I am and of my work and life, all evidence which would have enabled me to make my defence. He ran a Star Chamber. I am sickened by the obscenity of the manner in which the legal profession belittled and derided and condoned State abuse of me from 2004. I am not talking of honest errors. I am talking of wilful negligence by medics and a legal profession protective of that abuse and negligence and not protective of my civil libery and life. Not even slightly.
Dr Balraj was the end of matters in relation to psychiatry in Britain as far as I was concerned. But it was not the end of what needed to be resolved because what I had said innocently about what Dr Balraj said had been siezed on by others with their own axe to grind. This is not paranoia. This is a life - mine - destroyed in all it was becoming by utter viscious, lying, small minded, excluding nastiness.
But I did not know the lies Dr Balraj was writing in her notes nor what she was saying to third parties. How she was telling others as soon as she could what she was not telling me, leaving me bewilderd by the way others were reacting to me and so causing the distress to justify her ignorant shit. And I really do not care how many letters she has after her name. Her privacy abusing immorality and that of all the other fools -- many of whom are so uneducated and ignorant that they think psychosis is a communicable disease -- is utterly despicable.
I wander: as I walk around this tiny town of small minded medical ignorance, do those I know look at me and say -- watch her - she's carzy -- she's mad -- she thinks she's a spy. I do hope not, but I would not be surprised if that was what the thinking was, I have read the medical notes and their capaciy for life destroying gullibility and interpolation is infinite. I had a family I loved and respected. I had a place in that family. The medical idiocy destroyed that, and the legal profession did not give a toss. What the hell did we bother for? What the bloody hell did we bother for when I could be fucked over for four stinking years of utter shite (2004 to 2008) by deaf and lying medics, deaf solicitors and the immorality of the MHAct and slandered in a way that undermined the work I was doing by the University of Manchester. There is not one wrong thing I had done to these people when I walked into this brick wall on 6th and 16th March, 2004. None of them, and not one thing I had said to anyone about any of them which would have undermined their standing. I wish to hell I had never come back to Yorkshire.
I now think it likely that there was a deliberate abuse of medical procedure to protect a power base. I mean that as an academic analysis, not as a paranoid thought. So take your derision and go and do some reading about the use of societal structures in the lawless disempowerement of human beings.
Dr Balraj and all those I encountered should be sacked. Since they would not engage with me as an equal we were unable to resolve matters, as ought to have been possible, without need for anyone to be sacked or anyone's life harmed. Does part of you think - how dare she claim to be the equal of a doctor? Equality does not mean equality of knowledge set -- though I, like they, have a well-schooled, degree-level knowledge set of some significance - equal but different.
One year later over the phone, Dr David Burley alluded -- he did not say this is my diagnosis and this is why -- over the phone to a thought I had schizophrenia. That, apparently, was why the DVLA got involved in my life, but no-one at the time bothered to tell me, even though I asked why. I drove to Swansea and gave the licence to the police before the unexplained deadline set by the DVLA. When I rang and asked why they wanted the licence they would not tell me. It was their job to tell me. They wanted it, and no-one else had suggested there was any problem and I sure as hell had no reason to think they needed it because the world looked and sounded just the same way to me that it always had. I had no blackouts etc...
Dr Burley's comment was over the phone during an advise call and in a totally different context, so it did not register. Why would it? I do not. I have none of the symptoms of schizophrenia. Not one. He should be prosecuted. Is the reason they do not tell me the exact symptom and how it manifests itself because they are afraid I will be able to prove what they think is a symptom is actually reality?
If that was his diagnosis, and he has never said to me that is his diagnosis, nor have any of them, nor told me he has been told there is such a diagnosis. He is not fit to practice medicine. If schizophrenia exists, and I doubt it does in a form that people think (and thought in 2004), then the patient has a right to be told and, yes, indeed, the patient needs to know what the doctor thinks is the aetiology and what the specific symptom is.
I had not told them I was hearing things. And yes, actually, I have sketched out quite a few plots for novels -- one is about a psychiatrist who discovers that reincarnation is a reality.
And grandiloquence is not a symptom. It is an opinion.
Third party reports should never be taken unless rigorously evaluated without anonymity and with the patient. To do otherwise is control freak, vigilante shite by power crazed, second rate cowardly gits who quite simply do not know how to think critically nor how to hold a fellow human being in respect. A practise indulged in by fools without insight into empathy.
As should Helen Alcock be taught some of the basics of decent medical practice. They, not I, ought to be the butt of your anger. At no stage in 2004 did any doctor nor any psychiatrist (and they are fully licenced doctors) say, I diagnose you with schizophrenia. This is what I think is a symptom. This is the treatment I propose. This is how it will help to alleviate symptoms.
And, I repeat, I have none of the symptoms of sychizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
So my question to a solicitor is, have we yet found a cause of action? Link this to the money and earning ability lost because the DVLA asked for my driving licence back, but would not tell me why, and then returned it to me, also without telling me why, having in the meantime lost me thousands and thousands of irrecoverable pounds and months of life. I think the DVLA was driven by the medical profession which wanted to stop me from asking more questions about their behaviour toward me and collecting all the medical records I had by then begun to collect. Conveniently, too, the DVLA behaviour helped Judith Stansfield of Blake Lapthorn and Michael Worboys (CHSTM) and the University of Manchester mask their wrong doing. And theirs was the initial wrong.
Their wrong doing preceded my reaction of distress.
I had no idea what an ignorant backwater I was living in, nor how many people must have hated me.
Was it Schadenfreude, ignorance or condescension?
Or are the medics willing to go on the record and say that what is in their notes did not constitute diagnosis (that would, at least, explain why they did not tell me) but was speculation and they now retract in full all suggestion of endogenous or drug-related psychosis and are in addition grovellingly apologetic for the manner in which their behaviour screwed my life to wasted shite in 2004 and afterwards and in a way that left me swinging in the wind. Well they ignored or sidestepped my letters seeking clarification and we were at odds because the worthless lying bitch Balraj had written in her notes she had explained aetiology and genetics when she had not. What a stinking bunch of lying shit. Not me. Them. Them. Them. Them. Every sodding one of the stupid arrogant shits I encountered.
Is that why everyone was ignoring what I was trying to say about this?
In which case do we now have a different cause of action, because I am bloody sure there is at least one cause of action somewhere. And not against me. Can we do this without going to the GMC? Surely the GMC does not need to tell us that doctors are supposed to give diagnoses, and give the diagnosis face to face, and to the patient, and to explain what the symptom is and how it manifests itself, and what a drug does and what its side effect is and tell the patient they may nor drive if they may not do so. And tell the patient if there is a likelihood they will be able to drive again (they sent me my licence back as summarily as they took it).
Who in 2004 was feeding them their personal animosity against me? GMC second, not first surely?
As soon as I could think clearly after my acquittal I sought legal help and failed to get it. Was I caught in the system or were they taking anger out on me for the wrong their colleagues had done to me? Or is that non clinical grandiloquence? They simply had not heard of me, and even with legal aid did not give a shit?
I do know the medics employed Chinese whispers, not accurate reporting -- at which I actually am an expert in my professional capacity.
Their methods created the emotional climate which provoked behaviour of misery and distress in me that seemed to justify their prejudice. So in addition to negligence there is the question of whether there was medical malice and/or a desire to protect a power base.
That there are lies in medical notes is an allegation aimed clearly and specifically at Dr M Balraj. However, the staff of Dr P Sclare have a rich imagination and have read too much Le Carre, or not enough Freud - whom, by the way, I have read, and it will be my pleasure to comb my bookshelves for my non expert but sophisticated reading of substantial tomes and thinkers in their discipline, from the psychoanalytic to the biological. Dr M Balraj is a woman consultant psychiatrist then attached to Calderdale. It would have been impossible for me not to notice if she had explained aetiology and genetics as her notes claim she did. I viewed her, until I saw those notes, with nothing but respect. Respecting someone does not mean following orders uncritically or without understanding. Especially when the drug has dangerous side effects and the doctor has asked no questions about family histories.
I know I am not qualified to challenge clinical diagnosis. And actually do not want to simply to be included respectfully. Those defending the obscenity of the MHAct and its stinking disprespect of the individual know that those stitched up by its vigilante nastiness are caught in the bind of knowing damn well there is nothing the matter with them of a chronic kind, or that they are being fed medical horse manure (I do not mean the shite drugs - I spat them out when thugs in ignorance fed by the lying ass Hargreaves tried to force on me what was not needed, because he an his brain dead colleagues made up the friggin symptom that I thought I was secret agent). Have you convinced people the drugs are harmless? That they are as harmless as chemotherapy? You know they are not. Would you give chemotherapy to someone who did not have cancer just to suit your ignorance and prejudice?
There must be no third party anonymous sources. Without anonymity the third party "informer" has a chance to say, "I did not mean that in a bad way", and the person spoken of a chance to say -- well, yes, that is true, I did say that, but the meaning you have attached to what I said is not the meaning I was trying to convey.
Bankruptcy was caused also by academic arrogance (16.3.04) and refusal to see through an agreed meeting of resolution. Again all my respect was thrown in my face. I had arranged to meet with my head of department and thesis advisor because I had spotted an Economics and Social Science Research Council grant I wanted to apply for, and had been told by both they would back me in an application for a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. My head of department had already backed me for a grant application (two, actually, and I was shortlisted for one), one costed to call, in my capacity as a student, in the computing/database skills at the University. This meeting was routine, but unfolded in an unexpected way, hence my later desire for a meeting of resolution.
The odds of the grant applications were long but worth aiming for. I also had a book in mind and I needed their professional feedback and views on copyright re my thesis and other work. I had also been invited by my thesis advisor to do some teaching with him and had been delighted by the prospect. Given my background and publication record this font color="red"brbrwas all very sensible. And totally normal. I was not being offered a job, but an opportunity as a graduate student.
But I walked into a very different routine meeting than the one planned, and one which devastated me and which I could not react to in a timely manner. It would have been way too big a psychological leap to change my thinking after all the encouragement academically I had encountered from both of them. And deep down I was terrified because I had sold my home knowing I had that encouragement. If it was staff belittlement of me it was not my work nor my behaviour which was at fault. Though I had expressed private concern to a friend about how I fitted in I was very happy and behaving politely and courteously and respectfuly to all concerned. And that was how I thought and felt. I was playing my role. So the meeting I had on 16.3.04 was a surprise. Within a few weeks I asked for a meeting of resolution and one was agreed to. Then canceled with no rescheduling. Over and over again when I behaved rationally those I was seeking clarification from and within my right pulled the rug from under me. I think their aim was imposition. Piss off.
When I first saw Dr M Balraj, on 1st April, she knew nothing of any of this from me and, in fact, before I tentatively tried to open a route of communication with or via my solicitor (Judith Stansfield of Blake Lapthorn, whose name is legitimately now in the public domain) in early April no one did -at least not from me.
Professor Michael Worboys spoke significant slander on 16.3.11 and with significant professional consequences for me, would not explain it and canceled the later agreed meeting of resolution to be held in accordance with conditions he had set and I had agreed to. He was dealing with an adult with a professional life to whom her thesis advisor had issued an invitation. I was not a naughty child. I had friends among the students, though I did not know most of them, and not knowing them was only because we were doing different courses. And, I repeat, my work and behaviour were perfectly normal. And normal for me was not intrusive and uninvited nor angry and nasty.
When I tried to speak with my personal tutor to help resolve matters -- Dr Sam Alberti -- he also canceled the meeting because he was leaving, and he made no effort to find a replacement for himself. By then I was getting desperate. Not because I was ill, but because I had no idea why so much had gone wrong so quickly. Dr Alberti knows this because of a note I left him after he canceled the meeting. Not all calls for help are expressed by the word "help", but I would have thought he was professionally competent enough to know that. And he still made no effort to find a replacement for himself. If he did he did not tell me and no-one said they were his replacement. This all caused real bankruptcy and real damage. It cannot be swept under the carpet. Those who did the wrong had ample opportunity to put matters right and they did not do so, simply sought to protect themselves and to bolster their standing whilst destroying mine (and who I am) and using the obscenity of the MHAct against me. They may not at the time have realised they had the MHAct within which they could hide. But once they did, they clutched its stinking skirts.
The reason this Act is wrong is because it singles out a section of the population for special treatment within and without the Criminal Justice System. The motives of murder need to be understood whether or not someone is mentally ill. Cut all thinking that mental illness is causative or explanatory of criminal behaviour.
And for the record I have never used this Act, nor threatened to use it against anyone and will not do so. Take it and shove it.
Both Professor Worboys and Dr Sam Alberti were inexcusable. Professor Worboys, then director of CHSTM, gave no explanation, refused to reschedule the agreed meeting and scuttled into the stinking medical skirts then choking me out of my life. He had no excuse, and the University of Manchester showed a very nasty side of itself. It is surrounded by sycophants. I gave Prof Worboys no cause for his behaviour.
Later there was more wrong by Dr Julie Anderson, also of CHSTM who, in July 2004, behaved like a thug for no reason. She should have known better because she had also late in her professional life changed career, as I was then doing. I was doing no wrong to any of these people and I was not a threat to them. I had passed on no gossip about them. I knew nothing wrong about their work. And I had my head down, powering ahead with my post graduate research and transfer report from M.Phil to Ph.D.
I had invited people from CHSTM to my home, and they had come without co-ercion or any pressure. I attended nearly all the seminars and tutorials. I was not doing an MSc and so did different modules and more research. They had invited me to their parties and I had gladly participated. I was anxious about how I fitted in academically but I felt at home with the people, who I liked. So I have no idea what the slander was, nor how I was supposed to forget it when it had led Professor Worboys to talk of facilitating my transfer to another University. That was not trivial for me, and it destroyed an investment of all of myself and of a life time. Perhaps it could have been resolved had it not been for the medical idiocy. Have you any idea what crime you committed, because you did commit a crime and the damage is done.
Research and work wise, though, I knew exactly what I was doing and why, and was well on track with building a thesis length conceptualisation, which is what I was supposed to be doing. They and the medics behaved like bovver boys and kicked the whole edifice apart, without even realising that that is what they were doing.
And it was caused by Aberdeen Police and Dr P Sclare on 28.6.04. I have no idea what frenzy of idiocy and prejudice they were all whipping themselves into. And I do not care, nor why. Irrelevant. Certainly I gave them no cause.
I had thought the days of the equivalent of forced sterilisation and arrest for no reason belonged with the Nazis who caused WWII. And I had thought the days when the Ivory Tower destroyed human beings in wilful ignorance of that human being and of life beyond the Tower were a thing of the past. I was wrong about the Ivory Tower of the University of Manchester, and now read in the press there are thoughts of forced sterilisation in the air for some.
Compulsory treatment orders are what the Saddam Hussein's of this world do. When did we join their ranks? Because we have done.
The bankruptcy was caused also by betrayal by Judith Stansfield of Blake Lapthorn in Oxford. This is a betrayal that has done me massive damage, professionally and psychologically and personally. I have told their chairman - that is how he styled himself to me in March 2011 - that forthcoming legal deposit legislation ought to make it easier for him to sue me.
I had had total quiet respect for her and the firm she then, and he now, belong to. Judith Stansfield for two plus decades had behaved toward me as though she thought I was a client and friend and vice versa. We saw little of each other as friends and spoke rarely, but when we did it was, as I thought with many sensible reasons, as good friends and with professional trust and respect. It is the professional betrayal by her and her frim of me that contributed so much to the bankruptcy in 2006 and its aftermath.
I find it utterly obnoxious that her lack of professionalism, her dishonesty and dishonourable behaviour in 2004 and that of the firm to which she belongs should have made that interaction one to which a public interest defence applies. It was part of my private world. Others, not I, created the situation which violates MY privacy. If your umbrage is on their behalf, you have got the wrong victim. I am the victim. Of nastiness, prejudice, ignorance and stupidity. And I can live with myself just fine as long as you keep your shite co-ercive ignorance out of my life.
The relationship between she and I rarely strayed into matters of law save by contract. Her advise to me, which she refused to explain to me, was tantamount to slander of me, followed by libel. At the time I did not recognise it as such, simply sought clarification of what she was saying and why. And I did so making very little contact - yet it would seem from what Mr Lloyd-Jones has said to me, that she was slandering me. So if you could sue the University of Manchester and Blake Lapthorn, as well as West Yorkshire Police, the DVLA, NHS and the individual doctors then that would suit me just fine. I have tried quite hard to ensure there was no need to sue Blake Lapthorn. I knew no wrong of them. I did nothing to provoke this situation and tried to resolve it in a timely, low key and mutually respectful way. If someone shows distress do not take your bat and ball home.
It was caused also by police abuse of me and derision of me in 2004. Not, as far as I know, at first - only after M Balraj in her astonishing arrogance had put her ore in. A courteous demeanour does not mean someone is not an arrogant, supercilious shit, and that would seem to be what she is. No concept of the patient as an equal human being with the ability to understand English. It was caused also by Inspector Ian Dellow's dishonesty and disrespect in mid 2004 in Halifax Police Station, and the words he put in my mouth which I did not say, and by the words he did say and would not explain to me, and then by his subsequent emotional abusivesness - and he knew very well indeed how vulnerable I was, and by a dishonest office Landlord (a minor and secondary cause, but nasty and needless) in 2005, and caused by disjointed government between local and national goverment. In each and every case, and before bankruptcy made this of legitimate public interest with a public interest defence, I sought quiet respectful resolution. Every effort I met was stone walled, derided, ignored, avoided or turned into further abuse of me, pushing me to a place of increasing isolation and desperation. I was living in one world and everyone around me existed in another world I was no longer part of and could not reach.
I was then (and am now with fewer opportunities) an experienced international journalist, editor and author at a modest level -- ok I am very far from being a Kate Adie, but I had the international publication record for plus two decades with highly reputable publications - that was how I earned my living, and I did earn a living - and no self doubt about my competence. See www.gavaghancommunications.com/gcexpertise1.html. I was not the psychotic criminal with secret assumptions of psychic abilities whom they all seemed to want me to be.
In the case of Judith Stansfield I asked what I had said or written to her in her professional capacity as my solicitor that made it necessary for her to say to me on the Tuesday or Wednesday following Easter of 2004, "We have no one dealing with national security, criminal law or litigation, find a large firm in Leeds or Manchester which does". This mattered because since leaving the University of Leeds I had been an editor and journalist and, though I was changing career, I did envisage continueing to do some work in that field. I went to the police. I knew what I might need to tell them and that was not in any way damaging, just something the right person had a right to know.
She has since said that I had mentioned national security first. I had not done so in the letter I was calling her about at the time of the conversation in which she said that. She might have been referrring to an earlier conversation I had had with her concerning some papers I had legitimately copied in my work, and it would have been very easy for her to explain that to me. She did not. Her subsequent letter to me was obscure. To my knowledge she did not know of the photocopied papers.
There is no need for the legal profession to club together to defend Ms Stansfield. She has a law degree, followed by a year of law school, two years of articles and years of practise, and she, not you and not me, knows the reason for her immoral words and actions toward me.
So I do not know whether it was the letter I sent her after having asked to be taken to hospital on 6th March 2004 and after meeting Michael Worboys on 16th March 2004 which made her behave as she did. I cannot remember now whether I wrote to her before or after seeing Dr Balraj on 1st April 2004, or after seeing Dr Boston on 23rd March 2004. But the medics and their behaviour were a cause of my need to make contact with her.
I had no history of fantasizing and I did not feel life had passed me by or was passing me by. I was doing just fine. Thank you. Nor did I call the police without cause, or have a fetish about them. I did not think I was entitled to more than others. Ms Stansfield knew next to nothing of my professional life, beyond finding me one of her colleagues within her law firm to read my Eumetsat contract. The bill was entirely reasonable. I had agreed in autumn 2003 that I might be mistaken in thinking there had been an intrusion to my office, and as a result had not gone then to police but had spoken with my landlord. As far as both he and I knew the office was quite secure. |