Here’s a mark of our times. A dietician who apparently ‘bluffed’ her way into a top NHS job has been sacked for knowing less about the body and medicine in general than a reasonably well-trained spaniel.
The woman claimed great experience in working with nutrition based diseases and even cancer – but colleagues soon discovered she could not identify a feeding tube, did not know what or where the large intestine was, had seemingly never heard of a gall bladder and believed radiology was used to treat heart disease. According to colleagues she lacked even basic knowledge of anatomy.
She was struck off the register and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust said it was reviewing its recruitment procedures. Quite right, too, Because it would be interesting to uncover the great, befuddling, mystery as to why Ifenyinwa Chizube Ndulue-Nonso was given the job so quickly in the first place…
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