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Goodbye NHS Blog Doctor

December 13, 2007 at 8:51 pm | In Miscellany | 3 Comments

Dr Crippen has been missing for a while now, and then this appears in the comments section.

Dr.P. said…

Hello to you all.

This is not an easy comment to write, and I apologise for the lack of a full post, but ‘John’ was more than a little security conscious when it came to passwords, I have contacted “blogger” to explain circumstances but as yet have not had a reply.

Getting to the point, so to speak, I am a senior partner at ‘John’s practice, I have only become aware of this ‘weblog’ after accessing his email account through our internal system. Other partners have read this website, but none of us knew who the author was – although in retrospect there are a number of clues we could have picked up on!

There is no easy way to say this, but the doctor known as ‘John’ or ‘Crippen’ passed away in a road traffic accident mid-October. Although I appreciate the esteem in which many of you obviously held him, I must ask that the emails cease as of now – they are all redirected to our mail server and this is causing some difficulty.

Dr. Crippen’s identity may no longer need to be secret for his own purposes, but out of respect for his family and remaining colleagues I shall not be sharing this here, neither will I post another message or reply to any left. This webblog will be removed once I can circumnavigate the security protocols for obvious reasons of confidentiality.

This said, I thank all who visit here for their support of our dear, and much missed colleague.

Kind regards, Dr.P.

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:20:00 PM

I don’t know whether to believe it or not. If it is true then it is extremely sad. I may have had several disagreements with him about his attitude toward midwives but I looked forward to all his entries. He frequently gave me food for thought about my own profession and the attitude we may often display to women. He also highlighted the very real problems which exist in today’s NHS and throughout many other State ‘controlled’ organisations, he was a much needed advocate for many different sections of society. I will miss him greatly and I send condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

Goodbye Dr John Crippen.

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Hmm. I’m guessing it’s not true, but only because I suspect the good doctor would have more sense than to forward his blogging emails to his practice computer. However, the blog itself seems to be good and dead, which is a shame because I enjoyed it immensely, mad troll commenters and all.

Comment by disgruntled commuter — December 13, 2007 #

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Disgruntled – I have a niggling doubt but it does seem a bit drastic to say he is dead, unless it is some really nasty commentator.

Comment by midwifemuse — December 13, 2007 #

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I doubt its true. Emails would not clog up a practice mail server, there are none, as the NHS uses NHS Mail- a central NHS email service. Also he still has an active column in “Hospital Doctor” so this would have been in the medical press. The doctors I work with would have picked this up. A nasty person posted this. Also he would never ever have been so stupid to use to NHS Mail (nhs net) email account.

Helen

Comment by helen — December 14, 2007 #

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