ATOS: Cash From Chaos

"Janet was kept waiting for nearly an hour. The doctors were running late, she was told, because of "transport problems". Finally, her name was called and she was taken through the locked security doors and into an assessment room. The doctor told her to take a seat and proceeded to work on his computer.
""I could tell he was clicking down a column of boxes. I could tell from the way he was moving the mouse." The doctor said nothing more to Janet for "at least five minutes". He then asked about her medication and also her physical health. And then – "I think it's because I said I had piles" – he launched into the most extraordinary diatribe.
"Janet was forced to sit and listen as the doctor described in graphic detail the physical damage men did to each other by having anal sex. "They're everywhere!" the doctor said. "They're running the government." He would not allow his grandchildren to be brought up in a country run by homosexuals and paedophiles.
"Janet, who is herself gay, said nothing. She found herself wondering if it was part of the test. The doctor went on to tell her that a lesbian couple had complained about him, saying that he had rejected their claim because he was homophobic. "I had to go to tribunal," he said. "I could have lost my job. But they found against them and they lost their benefits." The doctor then left the room without any explanation. Some minutes later he returned with a nurse and proceeded to examine Janet's feet..."

Clare Allan writing on Guardian Online.
This doesn't surprise me.
ATOS are the private profit-driven company hired by the government to try and scare and throw vulnerable people off benefits.
Maybe we can all get jobs doing Disabilty Assessments at ATOS Healthcare.
An interesting assessment of the ATOS crooks and creeps here.

An open letter in The Guardian signed by Mind, Centre For Mental Health etc;
"We've found that the prospect of IB reassessment is causing huge amounts of distress, and tragically there have already been cases where people have taken their own life following problems with changes to their benefits. We are hugely worried that the benefits system is heading in a direction which will put people with mental health problems under even more pressure and scrutiny, at a time when they are already being hit in other areas such as cuts to services..."

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