Doctor Beans

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Maybe the doctors' strike will trigger change

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That doctors, of all people, are so at the end of their tether that they're willing to take unprecedented industrial action, should be a wake-up call for the government.

@fmf said
That doctors, of all people, are so at the end of their tether that they're willing to take unprecedented industrial action, should be a wake-up call for the government.

Of course it should. My niece is a quite recently qualified junior doctor, who can scarce be described as a left wing radical, but she changed trade unions in order to go on strike. She's works A and E and she's exhausted. She's not essentially striking over pay, but under the current working conditions she can't do her job as she would wish to do it. Situations and conditions change, as do governments, and have to be responded to accordingly. Ironically, perhaps, she's just back from a year working in Australia, and now Australia and New Zealand are actively recruiting doctors (and others) to work in these countries for better pay and conditions, so the NHS is losing more doctors. Wakey wakey....

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And a lot of people are going to die in the longer term because doctors are having to work beyond reasonable limits. During the pandemic doctors and nurses were hailed as national heroes/heroines, now they are being told to run along and stop making a fuss. Nobody wants to go on strike, but desperate times sometimes require desperate measures. Medical workers are of course in a unique position of caring for peoples' physical health and wellbeing; if the train drivers (for example) go on strike it's inconvenient and costs the economy money, so the government caves in and everyone goes back to work. People being sick or injured is non - beneficial, economically, so there's less leverage.

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I'm sure they'd settle for less of an increase in pay if the government offered more investment in the NHS, which would mean more doctors. It's more complex than you are implying, ask my niece.

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I became disenchanted with the education system and, in 1991, I walked away. Perhaps all rhe doctors should walk away.

@earl-of-trumps said
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Cripes. Take it to Debates

Then we would have to discuss it with cesspool dwellers like you. No thanks.