My partner last year googled ‘Dr Andrew Iles’ prior to seeing him as we were going to pay on a private psychiatry basis. For this Dr Iles rewarded me with the following, in a medical clinic letter to my GP (which he wrote discharging me without my knowledge he was doing so):
“She has accessed my online expert witness profile … she has accessed my Twitter feed”.
The word ‘accessed’ for something publicly online (Expert Court Reports) and a public Twitter site sounds ominous but what on earth this has to do with my health, I fail to see.
However, this week, I discovered it appears he has ‘accessed’ my blog here at Fluttershy, where of course all are welcome and where GOOGLE will one day catch up with me here.
I know this as my partner received a letter from MDDUS (Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland) which surmises I will simply do their bidding even though they hold no judicial power. It reads the following:
“We have site of Mrs Barnes’ blog and its contents in relation to Dr Iles. We request that you take down the blog posts relating to Dr Iles. Should you not be willing to remove the relevant blog posts we will advise Dr Iles of his rights to pursue a remedy through the courts. We look forward to confirmation that the blog posts in relation to Dr Iles have been removed.”
It is worth noting, however, that their website states in the Membership Agreement Part 2 they do not cover “assistance with raising actions for defamation”, which is not consistent with what they have sent me.
Oh well, we'll give them the benefit of the doubt and surmise that perhaps the lady who overstepped her remit at MDDUS on this occasion sent it to us in error.
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