Published1 day agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingBy Michael Buchanan & Katie LangtonBBC File on 4A senior doctor who won a record £3.2m payout says her boss tried to “break” her after she raised concerns about how Covid was being handled. Rosalind Ranson, medical director on the Isle of Man during the pandemic, experienced months of humiliation, an employment tribunal found.BBC News has discovered her former boss Kathryn Magson, who was criticised by judges, now works in the NHS. Miss Magson strongly disputes the tribunal findings.Dr Ranson has given BBC News her first interview since the hearing.Moving from London to the Isle of Man in January 2020 for what she called the job of her dreams as medical director was an exciting time for Dr Rosalind Ranson. But she could not have imagined the situation she would find herself in – after being plunged almost immediately into dealing with the threat of Covid.As a tribunal would conclude, she was treated in a way that was “demeaning” and “unjustifiable”, including eventually being moved from her office and given a room with a broken chair. It all started with a crucial email she sent in March 2020.’Wave of a tsunami’Dr Ranson and her clinical colleagues had met earlier that month and decided that the borders of the Isle of Man – with a population of 85,000 and one main hospital – needed to be closed. “I was saying… it’s a wave of a tsunami, we can see this coming,” she now tells the BBC. “We were going to have insufficient beds, insufficient ventilators. We were going to rapidly overwhelm our health system.”She prepared a presentation for the Manx government, advising urgent action was needed. Some days later, on 24 March 2020, when she got home after working late she saw a clip of the Isle of Man’s chief minister answering a journalist’s question on why the borders had not been closed. “We take advice from our medical experts,” she heard him say, and “we are waiting for that advice”.”I was thinking, either the chief minister’s misleading the public,” Dr Ranson tells the BBC’s File on 4, “or they didn’t get the presentation.”She decided to compose an email to her boss, the chief executive of the Isle of Man’s Department of Health.”At 01:46 that morning, I wrote to Miss Magson. I said, ‘Can you tell me did you pass on all of this, these presentations, this information?'”And she never responded to that email.”