My problem is that, even after abstinence, I can’t seek restoration to the General Medical Register in January 2013 or admission to the Solicitors’ Roll on successful completion of my training contract, realistically, whilst this story persists on the BBC website; and assuming I maintain my clean sheet on character and suitability issues following my coma in iTU in the summer of 2007. Both professions are very concerned (quite rightly) about trust in the profession, and its reputation, and given that I have now been successfully rehabilitated from alcoholism I feel the BBC should remove them. So I am now sending this open letter to the BBC General Standards Board to explain my problem. It is a very serious one, and should be given some thought and attention by some very senior people.

The letter is as follows:

Dr. Shibley Rahman
[redacted]

Chairman of the General Appeals Board (21/07/10), 24 July 2010
180 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 5QZ

Dear Sir,

OPEN LETTER : URGENT

As you will have inferred from all my correspondence to the General Standards Board, I am really concerned about the damage that this BBC story (actually whose central allegation that I am a stalker is actually in fact incorrect) is doing to my personal reputation in July 2004. You have already been sent this evidence on numerous occasions, as you are aware. This incident for which I received a harassment warning in the context of me being drunk was not criminally classified as stalking. This was one of the items of evidence that led to my ultimate erasure in July 2006 by the General Medical Council. Your news items are still on the BBC Online website today.

Despite the fact I am disabled, but because I have been abstinent for three years, and written two books on postgraduate medicine and completed my PhD in medicine, will be applying for restoration in January 2013. Please note that the ‘Duties of a Doctor’ from the GMC currently provide the following:

“Never abuse your patients’ trust in you or the public’s trust in the profession.”

As I have been abstinent for three years, and it is six years since the event itself (2004), I think it is essential that the BBC remove this, to prevent damage to my personal reputation in my reapplication.

I still remain angry about your ‘Entertainment’ stories run during the actual hearing of 2006, which I feel compromisd the fairness of my trial, although I have no intention of recourse to legal action over this.

I am especially concerned, as I am now an upstanding individual. I intend to apply to be a solicitor with proven rehabilitation, and similarly the Code of Conduct of Solicitors provide:

Members of the public must be able to place their trust in you. Any behaviour within or outside your professional practice which undermines this trust damages not only you but the ability of the legal profession as a whole to serve society.

Trust IN me is potentially impossible when your story is number 1 of a Google search of my name, whilst the BBC continues not to remove this story, which is extremely damaging to me.

Please remove these stories before I seek for advice from the General Medical Council and the Solicitors Regulatory Authority, as to what to do about these stories. I cannot seek restoration/admission to the Solicitors Roll if the BBC refuses to acknowledge my rehabilitation, and therefore undermines me as a professional.

My problem is that, even after abstinence, I can’t seek restoration to the General Medical Register in January 2013 or approval for the Solicitors’ Electoral Roll after completion of my training contract, realistically, whilst this story persists on the BBC website. Both professions are very concerned (quite rightly) about trust in the profession, and its reputation, and given that I have now been successfully rehabilitated from alcoholism I feel the BBC should remove them. So I am now sending this open letter to the BBC General Standards Board to explain my problem. It is a very serious one, and should be given some thought and attention by some very senior people.

I am still hopeful for a sensible outcome.

Yours sincerely

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Dr Shibley Rahman
Queen’s Scholar
BA(1st) MA MB BChir PhD (all Cambridge) MRCP(UK)
LLB(Hons.) FRSA MSB
Master of Law student at the College of Law of England and Wales
Associate Member of the Institute of Directors
Company Director of Law and Medicine Limited