In output rather than composition. Her composition is that of a bag of dog poo that someone has left hanging in the sun on a tree.A bit of a madam? Understatement of the year!
Agree.Commentary from one of the Drs who seems to write for Mail regularly ( Dr Max Pemberton)
'Medical colleagues in other countries are baffled by the power that NHS managers have.
They simply cannot believe that someone less qualified is able to override clinical decisions made by consultants or threaten, bully or intimidate them. In their jobs, such a thing is simply unheard of.'
Article is quite interesting. These themes of managers vs Drs and also nurses vs Drs you see can running through many of the other Inquiry reports into other Trusts.
OTOH this point about retaliation as a silencing tool, could probably be seen across many institutions, orgs and services :
'.....The patient could easily have died if he’d given in to the demands of the manager, yet — shockingly — he was still formally reprimanded for disobeying the manager despite him being absolutely correct in his clinical assessment.
I’ve had personal experience of this sort of treatment when, after my emails to managers went unanswered, I formally escalated concerns about the level of care being provided to patients in a service.
All of a sudden, the furious service manager descended and, rather than addressing the issues I’d raised, started to scrutinise my work — the implication being that I was a troublemaker and needed to be silenced.'
No wonder that some nurses and Drs feel there's no incentive to raise concerns when they have suspicions ( not suspicions of criminal wrongdoing )
Dr MAX PEMBERTON'S lesson from Letby
Dr MAX PEMBERTON: One of the many shocking things to come out of the case of nurse Lucy Letby is how it's exposed the extent to which managers have taken over so much of the NHS.www.dailymail.co.uk
She is controlled though, in the face of others. When she was arrested (and in court) there was no meltdown, no crying out in protest of her innocence and very few dramatics. The most we heard about was tears and asking for a break or trying to leave the dock. We know the extent of her manipulation tactics and gaslighting. She learnt to hide her true self and how to manipulate and deceive very young, IMO.
I see.
Do you have any experience pre Thatcher's reforms when they became self governing trusts? Because that keeps coming up in all the editorials I've read in the last week. ( Not the Guardian, centre right papers)
I’ve been very puzzled by that too.
She is killing in her capacity as a nurse. There is a bit of a "thrill kill" on a unit. Sort of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
BBMExcellent commentary from one of the reporters, Liz Hull, responsible for the Podcast 'The trial of Lucy Letby' ( Mail) Also at the link is a paragraph where the reporter describes being berated by LL's parents but it's too much to quote all of the article
'In my mind, it all hinged on whether Letby would go into the witness box. If she was to have any chance of being cleared, she needed the jury to like her.
But in person, Letby was incapable of showing emotion or humanity. Her demeanour was glacial, her face blank and devoid of expression. When she started giving evidence in her defence, her delivery was so deliberate it bordered on robotic.
I admit, I was thrown by how 'normal' she looked; too ordinary to be a killer, surely.
But once she started speaking, there was no inflection in her voice, no evidence of distress, no imploring us to believe she wasn't a killer. As time went on, I just didn't believe her. If she was a caring nurse, surely she would have shown it?'
On a couple of occasions, I caught her sharing a joke with the prison officers who brought her to court each day, but as soon as she realised journalists, police officers, lawyers — and especially the jury — were filing in, the mask went back on......
Letby listened intently to the witnesses, often passing notes to the young female solicitor on her legal team, and had daily meetings with Mr Myers after court finished for the day, before being whisked back to her cell at HMP New Hall, in Wakefield, an hour down the M62.
Watching the mother of a boy murdered by Lucy Letby, I wept in court
LIZ HULL: I've been to almost every day of the trial, sitting just a few feet away from the woman accused of some of the worst crimes in modern times.
@Furore. Manipulating - see bolded? '
'Letby claimed she had developed post-traumatic stress from her arrest, and sat in the dock throughout her trial clutching two blankets — one pink and one lilac.
She also held on to a tiny 'stress' toy for comfort when she gave evidence and — not allowed the support of her legal team while mid-testimony — was granted regular visits with the court's resident mental health nurse, who helped her cope with days of probing, spiky questions from Mr Johnson.'
Also this striking photo of her ( ' first photo since arrest, with Mum, wearing her signature pink and looking very young)
www.thescottishsun.co.uk
Ohhhh if only cats could talk^ How do you know that?
Not saying she wasn't but as far as I'm aware, Tigger and Smudge did not come up in either the defence or prosecution arguments. And I know they didn't appear as character witnesses.
