AHPRA the Australian Health Practioner Regulation Authority 2

The bottom line.

Further to this post, if you want to know if a doctor is registered to practice medicine and can’t find his or her name on AHPRA’s Registers of Practitioners, it may well be a problem with AHPRA, in fact it probably will be. But don’t expect to be able to sort it out with them – they’re absolutely hopeless!

They pretend they’re interested in your problems but they’re not.

Email the doctor about it and let him or her sort it out – and if they haven’t got an email address, like Dr Urs, or don’t answer emails, like Dr Haghighi, give them a miss.

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AHPRA the Australian Health Practioner Regulation Authority 1

In a word, AHPRA is completely and utterly hopeless.

You couldn’t get a better illustration of this than this.

For those interested in knowing whether Dr A L K Urs of Primary Health Care Limited’s Parramatta Central Medical Centre is registered to practice medicine and who do a search on AHPRA’s Registers of Practitioners for NSW doctors with the name “Urs” will find that none come up – they are forced to think that he isn’t registered. But he is, in fact, registered – it’s just that, to find his entry, you have to put his Indian religious name in front of “Urs.”

Have you ever heard of anything anything more absurd?

We did so much work on this a few years ago – even visiting Dr Urs in his practice, but he was too dumb to understand the problem.

And we sent SO many emails to AHPRA,  but they wouldn’t budge – they continued to think that their position was perfectly reasonable.

In those days we were naive enough to think that if we did enough work on it, things might change, both with AHPRA and Dr Urs – but those days are long gone.

A similar thing has come up in the last day or so.

In the course of doing research to try and locate the best Sydney Urologists we did an AHPRA search on Dr Kayvan Haghighi of MacArthur Urology – and again no entry for him came up.

If Dr Haghighi, (if he is a doctor,) responded to emails sent to him using his email form we could check on this with him – but he doesn’t.

Obviously Dr Haghighi, or Mr Haghighi, doesn’t care; certainly no one at AHPRA would care, and those consulting him thinking he is registered to practice medicine wouldn’t care.

Our solution is simple these days – this gentleman shouldn’t be included in any list of the best Urologists in Sydney in any circumstances.

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The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission in action 7

A remarkable paragraph from yet another remarkable recent article!

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But the greatest scandal is NOT that if anyone has a problem with a doctor that they won’t get anywhere trying to get any help from other doctors and/or their professional bodies, like the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and that this is never going to change.

The scandal, and it’s SUCH a scandal, is that health services consumers have come to believe that there’s NO ONE they can complain to and not find it to have been a complete waste of their time and effort – not even the bodies that are supposed to be regulating doctors, in New South Wales, for instance, like the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, the Medical Council of NSW, and now, it would appear, the NSW Information and Privacy Commission, and for good reason.

This is strongly confirmed by such things as the Graeme Reeves story. Graeme Reeves, who came to be known as the Butcher from Bega, eventually lost his registration as a doctor, but it was on the basis that there was misinformation in his job application – not on the basis that anyone was complaining that he was a poor doctor. In fact, at the hearing that led to him losing his registration, it was specifically stated that no one was complaining that he wasn’t a good doctor – and, that, in fact, there were other doctors prepared to testify that he was a good doctor.

But when his case got some publicity in the media it is said that 500 women came forward with complaints. Why on earth hadn’t any of these 500 women complained before? Obviously because they would have thought it would turn out to be a complete waste of their time and effort.

The irony is that although it is reported that, “around the water cooler in the mornings,” his fellow surgeons used to say to Dr Jayant Patel things like, “And who are you going to kill today?” – they knew exactly what was going on – but even these surgeons may well have thought that complaining to anyone would turn out to be a complet waste of their time and effort.

We at bestdoctorssydney1.com have the time, we have the legal training and we have the interest in these matters, but we still get nowhere with complaints to the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, the Medical Council of NSW, and it would appear, now, the NSW  Information and Privacy Commission.

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Private Hospitals 1

In our more than seven years of working on these matter, we’re not sure that we’ve come across anything more amazing than these statements from this ABC article.

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What is being alleged is that even if the elderly have had top private medical cover for 50 years, it’s no guarantee that they will get into a private hospital, or that if they do, that they they will “get the quality of care that they need,” because private hospitals can’t make enough money out of providing the elderly with the care they need.

Those who may have an interest in such matters may well want to read the article in full.

It’s something we want to go into further as time allows.

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Dr Vincent Tse Urologist

After a second consultation with Dr Tse, one of our readers is claiming that you couldn’t find a nicer and more helpful and better doctor. And, as someone with a pensioner card, it only cost him $70 for a 25 minute consultation.

Other readers report that other urologists, like Dr Andrew Brooks, seem to consistently charge even pensioners $120 for consultations that last less than a third of that time, and they’re anything but nice and helpful and good.

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Dr Jassim Daood Cosmetic Surgeon 3

If ever there was an example of emails and email responses showing what someone is really like, it’s these.

Clearly, in an effort to boost his very meagre credentials, Dr Daood claims, on his website, to be a Fellow of a very impressive sounding organisation – but it turns out that this very impressive sounding organisation doesn’t even exist!!! You couldn’t get greater confirmation of this than what Dr Daood himself provides on his website – what purports to be a link to this very impressive sounding organisation’s website, is, in fact, a link to the website of an organisation with a very different name that doesn’t have Fellows!!!

And as if this is not bad enough, he has the gall, the cheek and the effrontery, to persist with this claim when we have been writing to him and the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission about it for more than seven months.

And, as if this is not bad enough again, he has the gall, cheek and effrontery, to send us this letter by email, obviously in the belief that it’s an adequate response to any who might be alleging that his claim is false and misleading.

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Dr Jenson Mak Geriatrician

We could just about write a book about Dr Mak and perhaps some day we will.

More than three yeas ago we were first contacted by the lady who provided the first rating on him on the RateMDs.com website, dated 8 Sep 2012. The rating, which you can read for yourself, couldn’t be worse.

But since then, sixteen 10 out of 10 ratings have appeared on him on the same website, (along with two further 2 out of 10 ratings – the lowest they allow,) from which you could easily come to believe that he was the greatest doctor who has ever lived!!!!!!!????? These have resulted in him now being their top ranked Geriatrician in New South Wales!!!!!!!!!???????

But now the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission has caught up with him – see this Media Report dated today, (16 Oct 2015,) indicating that perhaps he may be not such a great doctor after all.

(This in one of the exceedingly rare occasions – about 8 a year, out of the more than a 100 complaints they get a month – in which this Commission has found a doctor to be, perhaps, not such a good doctor, as opposed to finding him or her to have had improper sexual relations, or to have been lax in their prescribing of drugs.

You can read the details of the Professional Standards Committee inquiry yourself, if you wish, by using this link. That’s if you can be bothered.

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Dr Dominic Lee Urologist

Dr Lee now has a website, but the email address on it, as at today, (14 Oct 2015,) – info@drdominicleeurology.com.au – doesn’t work! And he has one rating on the RateMDs.com website – one of the worst you could ever see.

Perhaps, not great encouragement for anyone thinking of consulting and/or using Dr Lee.

And please note – none of us have any connection with, interest in or control over RateMDs.com. There are allegations on the internet to the contrary, but these are scurrilous rubbish.

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Dr Jassim Daood Cosmetic Surgeon 2

An extraordinary letter received yesterday, (13 Oct 2015,) from Dr Daood.

Could he possibly think that it would allay anyone’s concerns about the matters raised in our letter to him on 10 Oct 2015?????

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Dr Lawrence Hayden Urologist

We don’t usually take the time to email doctors and others who don’t have ordinary email addresses, just have email forms – they don’t usually respond. But we thought we’d give Dr Hayden a try. We’re awaiting his response to this letter we emailed him yesterday.

For the list of Sydney Urologists we’re putting together with details of how we’ve got on in sending them emails in the past, either on behalf of ourselves or readers, and for those of our readers who may wish to email them themselves, the means of contacting them by email that they provide, use this link.

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