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Dr Richard Hackett 2021-02-15 Person 1 5 0

Without a doubt the worst clinician I have ever come across. This is not only based on my own firsthand experience of him as a patient but also confirmed by the disgust expressed by medical students I overheard talking about him. When reading back through my medical notes, he completely twisted my words (some were a flat-out lie) and made terribly derogatory comments - I actually started recording the audio of our consultations to prove to my GP that the consultations were completely unreliable. I am in complete disbelief as to how he can get away with being so rude and inconsiderate, especially as someone who is supposedly committed to a career in psychiatry. He would even be so bizarre as to suggest that I was lying about having attended a brain scan, simply because it wasn't available on the system. This was a clerical/IT issue that a previous doctor had actually apologised to me about - yet Dr Hackett wouldn't accept that and called me a liar? It was just so strange. At no point did I feel like he was listening to me. He put words in my mouth and would use leading questions in an attempt to get me to say things that fit a diagnosis he had already decided upon before I entered the room. I have since spoken to other doctors who know him personally or indirectly - including a previous colleague in psychiatry - and they were not at all surprised by what I told them, although obviously disappointed that he would continue to treat some of his patients this way. I doubt he will read this, but I sincerely hope Dr Hackett reflects on his practices and inconsideration towards his patients, and from what I have heard, his colleagues and medical students too.