I have followed this case from the beginning to the end.
The entire bureaucracy has served to protect itself instead of those it seeks to serve.
There is no relationship between the action and reaction. It seems if you forget your union fees you are made to look worse than somebody who fails to treat as patients properly or even abuses patients.
What has occurred in the Dr Wislang case certainly diminishes the public confidence in the system that is meant to protect us against incompetent treatment providers.
We expect the Medical Council to preserve the integrity of the primary concerns treatment and reporting about treatment. The medical Council has further diminished its standing in society by allowing treatment providers to produce Medical Reports outside of the supervision of the Medical Council so as to enable treatment funding agencies access to documentation to contradict the actual treatment providers prescription for treatment to occur removing the possibility of treatment which has resulted in harm at an alarming rate. So if you do not pay your subscription fees to the medical Council you are hammered but if you say that someone does not need treatment when the clinician who has examined the patient has prescribed treatment and harm as the result nothing happens.
This extreme contradiction in the capacity of the medical Council to function in a manner the reasonable man would expect with both ends of the spectrum being totally irrational undermines the credibility of the Medical Council. "The medical Council is now seen to be totally self-serving and no different than a union. The public would be better served with something more akin to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority " Bill Birch MP 1991. As the NZQA appears to have gone the same way as the medical Council it might be better that we go back to basics.
Nevertheless,
IT IS TIME FOR THE MEDICAL COUNCIL TO BE DISBANDED!!!
Probably the Medical Council should be replaced with some form of supervising authority as an extension from the universities that teach medical professionals. This proposal make sense to me as all I am interested in, As Joe Public, quality control rather than a self-serving organisation whereby harm is the result.