I'm sick of entitled junior doctors

Why should they go on strikes when MY taxes pay for them. Wow they're pays being cut so they won't be able to afford a second ferrari boo hoo. Meanwhile the poor refugees in calais are being subject to police and far right brutality. They need to get some perspective and stop their whinging and slowing down appointments in MY hospitals.

You can play around with the terminology as much as you want but an ever increasing amount of public money is going to private contractors to perform services that would have once been covered by the NHS itself (and of course, this isn't just the case in the NHS, it's happened and happening to many other public services too). In some respects this is even worse than actual privatisation because these companies can rely on massive government grants and often deliver substandard services with price efficiency far below the efficiency of the service when it was publicly run. The road we are going down is undeniably the erosion of public institutions. The NHS might not have been explicitly sold off yet but it is no longer the public institution it used to be.

It's logical sweetheart.

The more efficient a healthcare service and its workers (i.e. doctors and other staff), the lower mortality rates in a country.


Duh.

You said they are the ONLY reason we are alive.

I have never been to a hospital.

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Appreciate that you are really busy with work etc, and it is a genuine shame that the media IS distorting things. Could you maybe give us a brief synopsis, if only to give us a more clearer understanding?Always nice to have the facts, not just dogma (I speak of the media in that regard).

(please. And small words. I'm very dim. )

You ever had a cold or flu or period pains?

You've probably taken medicine for it.


And as for never going into a hospital, you probably went to get your jabs there when you were a baby, which was also probably done by someone with medical training.

I've tried to do this in previous posts, but the general points are these:

1. The safeguards that prevent excessive hours being worked are being diluted and becoming less independent (i.e. operated by people who have a vested interest in getting the most hours out of doctors).

2. The weekend mortality statistics are misleading and actually span Friday to Monday and show that Wednesday has the highest in-hospital mortality. The authors specifically state that it would be rash and misleading to assume these mortality rates are avoidable. Despite this, Hunt persistently quotes a "higher mortality rate on weekends".

3. The government is trying to push a 7 day ELECTIVE service. So if you have a planned toenail operation, it can be done on a sunday evening. This has not been costed or planned adequately. More importantly, WE BARELY HAVE THE STAFF TO COVER A FIVE DAY ELECTIVE SERVICE. Frequently, doctors are expected to pick up the work load of unfilled posts. If you extend weekend work, you will ultimately have to take staff from the week.

4. The contract disadvantages working parents. If they are expected to work more unsocial hours, they will have to face increased expenditure on child care (often short notice). Mr Hunt's solution to this is to use "informal unpaid childcare".

5. This contract IS a paycut. Normal working hours are being extended, reducing the out-of-hours premium that a large part of our income is generated from. This has been blurred over by a introducing a temporary "pay protection" that fixes the figures. Unfortunately the new cohort of doctors will not receive this and it will be lost anyway after three years.

6. The new contract contains terms that give the government absolute power to amend the conditions at any point they wish.

7. The DoH has generated a number of 'example rotas'. These are bizarre and erratic. Some even consider time sleeping after a night shift "time off". Er, no. That's time that I'm physiologically required to sleep.

8. The DoH has frequently insinuated that we do not provide a 7 day service. I work nights. I've worked almost 1 in 2 weekends over the last 4 months. WE ALREADY PROVIDE A SEVEN DAY NHS. We just don't do toenail operations on a sunday night, because we all have better things to be doing, like staffing A&E or spending time with our families. Similarly, patients report the same, with trial GP sunday appointments having a significantly higher rate of non-attendance.

I could go on.

Bring back the 1950s family doctor model!!!!

I'm sick of entitled junior doctors.
Why should they go on strikes when MY taxes pay for them.

Yeeeeeahhhhhh, back when the best management of a heart attack was bedrest, nobody knew what DNA was and doctors had about 15 medicines they could prescribe.

But I agree. I would love free training, free accommodation, a massive final pension, unquestioned paternal authority, free on-call rooms with free meals and could buy a house for £9000.

I want to become a doctor. And while i think, maybe, yea, they shouldn't have gone on strkie, did anybody think how hard it was for them? Working long hours, with little thanks? Doctors, honestly, are the reason why many of us are still here today. Jesus, have a little gratitude.

Never had any of the above, and I don't take medicine for a cold.

They were done by a nurse in a local surgery. Not a junior doctor.

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Hence why I said someone with medical training. If it wasn't for that, you'd be prone to more dangerous diseases.

Appreciate that you are really busy with work etc, and it is a genuine shame that the media IS distorting things. Could you maybe give us a brief synopsis, if only to give us a more clearer understanding?Always nice to have the facts, not just dogma (I speak of the media in that regard).

(please. And small words. I'm very dim. )