I was left to wonder what kind of discreet Inquiries the GMC get up to. They had admitted to a discreet inquiry in their memos on me. The concerning feature was the fact that this kind of creepy behaviour was not just for me. My lawyer Richard Price used to mock me about being the GMC's special case. I don't think I was that special. I was merely a junior doctor like many other juniors. They did this because they had done in many times before. In those days, these creepy behaviour traits of their Alzheimer's screener didn't affect your employability. Now, it does because all Trusts check all doctors with the GMC. The GMC then communicates all information and if they are secretly investigating, chances are you won't know and you may not get the job. I guess I was clever about discovering what they were up to. I had put the clues together on Doctors.net.UK during 2001. I figured that all roads of psychopathy led to the GMC. So I quietly did a Data Protection Act request. Mark Ellen of the GMC sent me my entire file complete with memos. It showed that the GMC had tried to track me down but obviously I had been clever enough to wrong foot them. My moonlighting of short locums had foxed them all. I survived well for many years like this until the Shipman Inquiry ensured no whistleblower could work without the GMC knowing where they were. This was ofcourse how the GMC eventually got me fired in 2007. Following a spurious complaint on a link to a public document being confidential, the GMC got rather excited about making me unemployable. Having purposely created confusion at the Trust, I was fired by them. The GMC lost these telephone memos but the Trust had noted down exactly what fibs the GMC had concocted. The GMC jumped out of the locum agency letter of termination and the Employment barristers opinion that I was fired by obtaining a statement from a consultant there. They bandied this around court like a desperate child insisting I had resigned. Ofcourse, there was no resignation letter. This is ofcourse how I lost the case R v GMC ex Parte Pal in 2007 sinking all doctors rights at the GMC. I was cleared but no other doctor was safe from this kind of ambush on their employment by the GMC. The Complainant in this case was none other than Penny Mellor recently convicted of stalking Shy Keenan. The Complainant wasn't the issue but the serious risk to jobs are an issue. Those doctors who sought to mock this loss should remember that they are subject to the law created by this case. Wrong footing the GMC was always fun. In Pal v GMC 2004, they had not expected more than 10 Employment references from consultant psychiatrists citing that my work ability was pretty good. Their mental illness allegation was put to the test in court when they were asked by the judge to provide their high water mark. They cited a typo I had made offering to meet their lawyers at 6 instead of 9. I guess the GMC was too embarrassed to admit that they thought that reading Stephen King was weird as well. They also sheepishly had to admit that there was no formal complaint. The GMC had discreetly investigated because they felt like it. In the flying papers of no return, they had even apologised. This was presented in court as the Blake Dobson opinion not the GMCs view or so their barrister said. Robert Jays submission was that if a lot of shrinks felt I was superb, I can't have been mad . This is the argument that tripped up the GMC. It's why they lost and had to tell the court that their Chief Executive was missing that day. I was convinced Finlay Scott was hiding under his table. Unknown to the court that day in 2004, I was reading about Jade Goody in the Now Magazine and I had bought Hello as insurance. These magazines were hidden at the back of the legal files. It comforted me to think there were weirder people than me walking the earth who didn't have to go through legal hell to prove they were not crazy. I had defended my case without the use of the media but by sheer evidence. Ofcourse, I did have a website where I mocked the GMC ruthlessly. Someone had to mock oppressive regimes. Indeed, that morning I nearly fell off my chair when the judge repeated my sentiments and told the GMC they were like a totalitarian regime. The GMC never lived this down really. I think their loss to a little common comprehensive school educated junior doctor filled their minds with seething anger. It was even worse that I was British Indian since the GMC spent its life degrading us. In years to come, I told them they were no better than the East India Company. Just that I refused to end up as a skeleton in their closet. So we never found out exactly what the discreet inquiry entailed. Later I found out that the GMC used private detectives in Sharma v Jay. Peter Jay had been ex Met and a private detective. I had never proven whether they skulked around me to this extent but it wasn't beyond them to skulk around others. Well, I knew then the GMC were creepier than they would have us believe. A modern day stalker with powers from the Medical Act. After my case, they made it lawful to creep around doctors without telling them. They call it investigation and use the public interest to justify their stalking. Ofcourse, where have the rights of doctors gone? The answer is this, they don't have any.