A drunk doctor? Did you get him struck off?
I was only a kid at the time (10 or 11)
I was at the local equivalent of the scouts and went over a vaulting horse head first and landed with a straightened left arm, needless to say the weakest point was my elbow and it got smashed.
The leaders (who should NOT have been reaching gymnastics) took me to their doctor, who declared that there was nothing wrong because I could move my fingers, bend my wrist and I wasn't showing any signs of pain. Stating that I should go home and rest for a couple of days (and even supplied my parents with a morphine suppositry to help me settle)
Anyway my parents took me to the childrens hospital anyway (they had never liked that doctor), who declared that my elbow was shagged. Anyway the consultant told my parents thet where right to bring me down as I would have lost my arm from the elbow if they had listened to the GP.
Anyway I got 8 weeks off school as they could not plaster the arm and it would be too easily damaged for me to be allowed out (it was boring).
Anyway the club offered my parents 5 pounds compensation if they could produce a certificate proving that I had been injured. Unfortunitely my school never returned the medical cert and they where never paid anything.
In those days you simply didn't hold doctors (or church organisations) to account over their behavour (my how things have changed). Still my arm works now and I can gross people out ;)
Rob...
