Headlining for BBC Scotland today:
Leann Sutherland was 21 and suffering from chronic migraines when one of Scotland’s top surgeons offered to operate.
She was told she would be in hospital for a few days and had a 60% chance of improvement. Instead she was in for months while Sam Eljamel operated on her seven times.
The BBC can reveal her surgeon – the former head of neurosurgery at NHS Tayside – was harming patients and putting them at risk for years but the health board let him carry on regardless.
NHS Tayside has consistently claimed it only knew about concerns from June 2013 and that they put him under supervision at that point but an NHS whistleblower has told the BBC the health board knew as early as 2009 that there were serious concerns.
BBC Scotland has spoken to three surgeons who worked under Mr Eljamel at Tayside. All three said he was a bully who was allowed to get away with harming patients.
All three said there was a lack of accountability in the department and that Mr Eljamel was allowed to behave as if he were a “god” – partly because of the research funding he brought to the department.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65904293
Eljamel left in 2013, for Libya.
There are three surgeons, now ‘senior’ after another 10 years, who lack the courage to be named.
One of them claims the health board knew in 2009. How do they know, for sure, unless they told the health board? Why, again, are they too scared to be named?
These two did something similar in 2020:
Talking-up Scotland / Scottish media fact checking is like shooting fish in a barrel 
A rule of proper journalism.
NAME YOUR SOURCES.
It’s instructive that the “Scottish” media seldom do this.
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I thought the first rule of journalism was you protect your sources?
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Depends on whether you are reporting about Scotland, the SNP or the EngGovs’ corruption.
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Yes, if your sources are in some kind of danger, where exposure could lead to imprisonment, or loss of employment or threat of physical harm.
What too may “journalists” do, is to hang a story round claims that “senior Nats” say this or that. Or sources claim the FM said this or that. Always aimed at one political party.
It is simply too convenient to be true (when did you last beat your wife, stuff), and a refusal to answer leads to more questions, and rebuttals are ignored.
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Unionist Health Boards
The Tories cut NHS funding £20Billion from 2015 to 2020 instead of increasing it.
Mistakes happen in heakthcare. The less the better. All operations are a risk. The SNHS still saving lives and giving excellent treatment to millions of people. Most of the population. Attend for appointments, especially the elderly.
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And those risks are carefully pointed out to patients before a knife pierces their skin. The patient then chooses to go ahead or not.
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Some Doctors trying to pass blame to cover up results. Of involvement. Understandedly. Many overworked because of Westmibster UK policies. Lack of adequate funding. Poor bad management. Wasting £Billions of taxpayers monies, especially Scotland’s Barnett Formula. Brexit etc. All poor bad policies Scotland did not vote for it. Vote for Independence. For better essential services and less corruption.
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I don’t know how Scotland is still functioning at all looking at that EBC page. It’s a wonder folks aren’t rioting or just zombified in the streets with mascara running down theyr faces all scary like. Anyone seeing that must be desperate to escape the horror, but it’s weird because loads of folks from the next door country are clammering to escape to Scotland for their holidays, if not for longer. Weird.
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* Their.
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