A doctor caught with 14 ecstasy tablets at a music festival has been allowed to keep his licence to practise. He also had amphetamines and cannabis resin in his car.
The Herald in Scotland reported the following: "Dr Gibb, 41, of Steilston, Dumfries, was convicted at Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court of possessing the Class A drug at the Wickerman festival in Dundrennan in July 2006 and was fined £400.
Colleagues at Dumfries and Galloway NHS Trust said the locum consultant psychiatrist at Crichton Royal Hospital was an asset to the trust and preventing him from working would not serve any purpose for patients."
Now, let me see if I got this right. So he's a doc, or should I say a psychiatrist, and caught in possession of illegal drugs, 14 ecstasy tablets to be exact. Then he was convicted. Then he was fined. Then his bosses said he could carry on working with a few restrictions on his license. And then he could carry on working for the NHS, which means tax-payers are covering his wages.
Now, I have it on good authority that one person can't take that many ecstasy tablets as they'd soon be pushing up daisies. So the question is, why did the doc have that many tablets? D'you think he was going to share them with some mates, or even make a few quid on the side?
No, surely not.
Oh, the ecstasy of life as a psychiatrist.
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