By JADA BAS, REPORTER Published: 10:29 BST, 21 August 2025 | Updated: 10:29 BST, 21 August 2025
A doctor who said she would 'support Hitler if he was around today' during an anti-Semitic rant has been allowed back to work.Dr Mili Shah, 47, was suspended for four months after allegedly praising Adolf Hitler and making racist comments directed at a colleague.The comment was made in 2021 in private to another staff member about a doctor who was not present at the time, known as Dr E.The staff member recalled in her evidence at the tribunal that Dr Shah had said: 'All this antisemitism…if Hitler was around today I would support him as he got rid of horrible f*****s like him.' She is then reported to have pointed 'aggressively' towards Dr E's office as she said it. The witness added: 'I cannot forget that interaction, it is seared into my memory and when I think of it now, I am back in that room and able to recall it all.'Dr Shah paused before she spoke and her tone changed. I would describe her tone as nasty and venomous.'She pointed aggressively as she referred to 'him' and she was pointing in the direction of Mr E's office which was down the hallway, so Dr Shah was kind-of pointing through the wall in that direction. A doctor who said she would 'support Hitler if he was around today' during an anti-Semitic rant has been allowed back to work. Pictured: Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool, where she worked'I was concerned about being implicated in Dr Shah's views and that's partly what drove me to report it.' It was said Dr Shah's 'abhorrent' outburst amounted to racial harassment when she addressed the colleague at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool.Having now served her ban, the consultant dermatologist is fit to return to work, following a review by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in July.However she is is no longer employed by NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group.It was said this violated the dignity of her colleagues and created an 'intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment'. Dr Shah said she had no recollection of making the remarks and apologised: 'On reading what is alleged to have been said by me, then I am completely horrified. 'I absolutely do not recognise myself as someone who would use those words. 'Remarks of that nature are abhorrent to me, and do not in any way reflect my personality, my belief systems, or in any way my character. Having now served her ban, the consultant dermatologist is fit to return to work, following a review by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in July. Pictured: General Medical Council headquarters'I wish to convey my sincere apologies to Mr E for this alleged remark as I abhor antisemitism and racism.' Failings relating to patient care were also the subject of the tribunal, including forgetting to schedule a biopsy and failing to write patient letters.The tribunal considered that in relation to her clinical failings, Dr Shah had shown 'good and effective insight' into her failures over an extensive period. it concluded that the remarks were so abhorrent that the need to uphold public trust in the profession would be undermined if a finding of impairment were not made.
