{"id":9115,"date":"2025-08-26T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/brain-image-doctor-banned-for-assault-and-racism\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:51:04","slug":"brain-image-doctor-banned-for-assault-and-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/brain-image-doctor-banned-for-assault-and-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain image doctor banned for assault and racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor has been struck off for assaulting a woman, making racist or derogatory comments and uploading an image of a patient&rsquo;s brain on his dating profile.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sayed Talibi, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was sanctioned by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) after it found his fitness to practise was impaired.<\/p>\n<p>Other examples of his misconduct included threatening a woman with waterboarding, posing for pictures with weapons and stealing milk powder worth \u00a323.50 from Asda.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal decided to erase Dr Talibi&rsquo;s name from the General Medical Council&rsquo;s register, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The MPTS record of the tribunal, which concluded on 8 August, said Dr Talibi:<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the panel, Andrew Lewis, said Dr Talibi&rsquo;s conduct was \u00ab\u00a0fundamentally incompatible with his continued registration\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0It [the tribunal] concluded that erasure was the only sanction that it could impose given the seriousness of the misconduct, the lack of insight and remediation shown, and the risk of repetition that remained,\u00a0\u00bb he wrote in the report.<\/p>\n<p>He said allowing him to return to \u00ab\u00a0unrestricted practice\u00a0\u00bb would be inconsistent with the findings due to the \u00ab\u00a0seriousness\u00a0\u00bb of Dr Talibi&rsquo;s misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The report said Dr Talibi had 28 days to lodge an appeal against the tribunal&rsquo;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Follow BBC Stoke &amp; Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A doctor has been struck off for assaulting a woman, making racist or derogatory comments and uploading an image of a patient&rsquo;s brain on his dating profile. Dr Sayed Talibi, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, was sanctioned by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) after it found his fitness to practise was impaired. Other examples of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placedesnations.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}