Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim describes losing control of his medical career through government policy, complaints, and GMC decisions. He turned down a reinstated position and compares it to businesses losing everything when platforms like Amazon change the rules.
And the whole thing collapsed, at which point most of us had scattered around the country. A good friend of mine ended up in Norwich as a trust sho non training job to maintain, doing urology. I'd gone into general practice and eventually they offered us our jobs back and by which point I was into GP training. I said, no, thanks. That was one moment, a massive life lesson where I realized that I'm in a career in my life where I'm not in control of it. The government can change it just like that. And it's a bit like. In business terms, it's a bit like selling widgets on Amazon. Yeah, your widget is amazing. Everybody buys this widget. You build a business over a couple of years, you're doing fortunes selling this widget on Amazon and Amazon suddenly notice and think, oh, we can make that widget for cheaper and we want a bit of that from Amazon. So all of a sudden you now have no business because Amazon have taken your business and you've got no control over it. But yet we all, as doctors, build our careers in an environment where we are not in control of it. The government can change it like that, a complaint can change it, the GMC can change it and there's nothing you can do about it. And that was one of the massive life lessons that really made me think, followed by the gmc, that something had to be done for me personally and for my personal future.
