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I am finally discharged from Queen Square!



Monday was a highly emotional day for me.  I was finally charged from the Neurorehabilitation clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square.

I must say that my medical team looking after me are fantastic. A dedicated team of clinicians, including neurologists at various stages of their training, the occupational therapists, the physiotherapists, and the speech-and-language therapy (SALT) people looked after me. My father and mother used to visit me religiously every day. My mother still has memories of coming to see me during visiting hours, with cooked food. My father passed away in November 2010.

The Hospital makes me extremely proud, as I practised neurology there long before I came alcoholic. I had the pleasure and honour of being on the movement disorders, cognitive disorders and dementia, neurogenetics and general neurology teams. I think the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, is the best hospital in the world. Therefore, while it gives me great happiness in that I no longer have seizures (my last one was on admission in 2007) and I am now physically almost back to normal, it is of massive unhappiness I will probably never go there again.

I still actively research in dementia, working for a leading UK charity in Alzheimer’s Disease. I love it there, as I make contributions to their groundbreaking work on quality-of-life and wellbeing in dementia environments. I will be writing an open letter to the General Medical Council, having done my two degrees in law and MBA by that stage, with 57 months in recovery in 2013. The GMC can have a careful read of the transcripts now which provide that their Consultant gave in the hearing, that if erased my drinking would explode. This is exactly what happened, and it’s well known within medicine that you’re at extremely high risk of meningitis if you drink heavily.

I currently have the privilege of being able to complete my legal training, and I still have unanswered questions of my own about the treatment of sick doctors.

I look forward to the challenge. My father insisted that I should fight this fiercely, on a matter of principle. Thankfully, I have an excellent consultant. The BBC will be interested to follow my submissions particularly. I think both the medical and legal professions are wonderful, though, notwithstanding what I’ve said. I must thank the regulators for law for looking at my case fairly which allows me to pursue my current dreams.

On that BBC article again from 2006. Defamation, wherever it comes from, can never be morally deemed to be creative output



The decision not to remove the news story from the BBC’s web site falls within the category of “editorial and creative output” …

Reputations can be severely damaged by being so reckless about information, particularly in this online world. 60% of employers look up future employees on Google, apparently.

The BBC are acting like a nasty bully to me, and I think their attitude towards me has been nothing short of sick. I am disabled, and despite seven degrees, I am too frightened to seek regular employment because of the attitude of the BBC in showing some compassion to me. Yes, I was alcoholic, but I survived 2 months in a coma at the Royal Free Hospital. I have trained in academic law, rebuilt my life, and live with my wonderful parents here in Primrose Hill. The BBC know all this as well as the evidence that I have never been a stalker.

The BBC articles are still there for everyone to see if you Google “Shibley Rahman”.


Interestingly the BBC decision letter (9 September 2010) makes no reference that there is a strong case that the article is clearly defamatory in its central accusation and headline.

A note: I experienced bullying at school, where the bully just expects you to shut up after a while. Having been distressed for several months about this, I am not going to be silenced. Here is the evidence for the world to see whether you like it or not.

I am protecting my reputation, as indeed other institutions are protecting theirs.

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