Dr. Aseem Malhotra

I think, yeah, we did.

It's been about six years since I last podcast.

That's right.

Got a lot of a lot of interest.

So I think, yeah, let's.

Yeah.

And first of all, to clarify, Mark, the reason I did not decide, I mean, it was something I thought about to sue the mail on Sunday.

I think I was at a time, there was a lot going on.

My mum had just died.

You know, for me as an activist and a campaigner, I made the decision that I'm going to keep going.

talking about this issue and carry on and just take it on the chin.

Um, I've been in this situation before, which we'll talk about later.

So I decided that I wasn't going to sue them, but I'm so pleased and happy for, for Zoe and Malcolm because, um, you know, it, these sorts of things, they do have an impact on you.

I, I,

Before I tell you what happened in the case specifically, because of that newspaper article, about a month later, because my hospital was named in the article and obviously they got a bit panicky, I was told that my services were no longer required.

So I lost my NHS job.

And by the way, I have an impeccable track record in terms of my clinical care, getting on with my colleagues.

I'm probably an unusual doctor and probably lucky as well because throughout my whole career,

23 career year career as a doctor i've never had a single patient complaint which is unusual because you know that can happen for any reason doesn't mean the doctor's done something wrong

So with all of that background, that's what happened.