Don’t Upset the Bureaucrats

No, really. Even if you’re right, entirely blameless. Even if you beat them in court. You still really don’t want to get on the wrong side of a bureaucracy.

Mohamed Taranissi, the controversial fertility doctor who has the
highest success rate in the UK, has been told by the regulator that he
is not a fit person to have legal responsibility for his clinic.

His
London clinic, the Assisted Reproduction and Gynaecology Centre, will
have to close if Mr Taranissi cannot find somebody else who is
acceptable to the Human Fertility and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to
become the "person responsible" in the eyes of the law within 21 days.

It’s a matter of power you see. You may well be doing innovative things, may well be treating patients, solving problems, in ways both entirely legal and unthought of by the box tickers. But that’s the problem, see. The clipboard wielders did not think of it and there you are, showing them up. So of course you have to be closed down.

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