The Founder of NCFED (me) and Dr Adrian Brown a clinicial at Imperial College Raised a complaint against a Fat Activist for issuing racist comments about each of us and disseminating incorrect information about our treatment of binge eaters and people in larger bodies.. The GMC have investigated our complaint and have registered a warning against this person’s record.
The judgement of the GMC included these comments:
The Committee finds that “”Doctors” conduct constitutes a clear and specific breach of the
professional standards, most notably paragraph 65* of Good medical practice (2013) which says
that, as a doctor, ‘you must make sure that your conduct justifies your patients’ trust in you and
the public’s trust in the profession.
- The Committee also finds that although Doctor’s conduct is serious, it falls just short of that
which would be considered serious enough to pose a risk to public protection. The Committee
considers that, if there were to be a repetition, the threshold for restrictive action on “Doctors”
registration would likely be met. - In reaching its decision on seriousness the Committee considered the Doctors lack of insight and acceptance that his comments were inappropriate. Dr X has expressed no regret or remorse or offered any sort of apology. He has taken no steps to address the behaviour that led to the complaints. Consequently, the Committee must conclude that the risk of repetition is high.
- The Committee regards that action, in the form of a warning, is appropriate in the interests of
promoting and maintaining proper professional standards and conduct for members of the
profession and because of the potential impact on public confidence in the profession. It is the
Committee’s view that Dr X’s comments are offensive. It was particularly concerned about
the impact the comments may have on the confidence of a cisgender, white, heterosexual male
after reading about the Doctor’s dislike of his ’species as a general rule’ and him having to ‘work
real damn hard to get into my good books’. The Committee has concluded that an individual
could well assume that they may not receive fair treatment from said Doctor.
Your colleague and Founder (me) has also been accused on the Doctors Social media post along with All-Bodies Recovery of being white, cis-gender, fat-phobic and thin-privilege- although this doctor does not know what I weigh nor the size of someone who was my husband. It was disappointing to have discovered that one of our Network “liked” the half hour long, very offensive video in which these comments were made.
Despite the said Doctor’s stated intention on social media to stop us doing what we are doing, we go from strength to strength. If we always do what we believe is right and we have the interest of our clients at the heart of our actions, we will thrive.