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Junior doctors strike back on

A friend of mine at work had her hernia op cancelled because of the strike. She has a chronic illness which means she uses the nhs on a monthly basis and ends up being hospitalised every couple of years. She fully supports the junior doctors strike because she's not a dickhead.

She is a fool, then.
 
The more I think about this, the more I think we would be better stopping defending the NHS and starting replacing it with a continental style state insurance scheme.
 
The more I think about this, the more I think we would be better stopping defending the NHS and starting replacing it with a continental style state insurance scheme.
The more I think about this, the more I think the time has come to starve attention-seeking little turds like you of the attention you so desperately appear to crave. Join Markytwat and co in my ignore list.
 
The tories want to abolish the NHS to save their rich backers money and have us die younger, so that we are scared enough to touch our caps and eat shit. This is what Bliar brought about be destroying democratic socialism.
 
The tories want to abolish the NHS to save their rich backers money and have us die younger, so that we are scared enough to touch our caps and eat shit. This is what Bliar brought about be destroying democratic socialism.
I'm of the opinion that like in the US its a two part motive. One the huge profits to be made out of people who don't fancy dying or watching their kid go blind from a preventable, treatable ill. The other being the pressure it puts workers under to keep a job with a health plan, you'll eat a lot of shit before you give that up. Housing precarity in this country is similar imho. The stick of homelessness hanging over you and the carrot of maybe having a gaff of your own one day (increasingly a pipe dream). Food, health and shelter. Get people there and you scare them, keep them toeing a line. Plus you can milk them dry for money.
 
But I still think doctors should have to work weekends. Just like the rest of the NHS, and quite a bit of the rest of the workforce.

I suggest that you do yourself a favour and expand your reading list beyond DM web article comments and Tory party central office press releases. Laughably (sadly), you don't even appear to be capable of seeing how all this will come back to bite you in the rear.

Doctors already work weekends; many NHS support staff (critical to progressing many cases) don't. Most of the working population don't work weekends. No sane individual would want a doctor making critical decisions about their health if said medic had had insufficient sleep and rest, and they were distracted by issues in their private/personal life which they didn't have the time to give the attention they require. They're injecting carefully chosen and titrated drugs into patients, not changing the barrel on the tap, trying to get you a better deal on your phone/insurance, logging your complaint about your net connection or resetting the self-scan till.
 
I'm of the opinion that like in the US its a two part motive...

It's also about 'reforming' the NHS, reducing costs and expectations so that the slices carved off of it look like a better 'buy' for the private companies who take over. Lower the bar till the service is abysmal, unworkable - the private companies don't then have to make much effort to claim they have improved the situation and it is easier for the government to 'sell' privatisation as the solution, at least in the minds of the hard of thinking.
 
It's also about 'reforming' the NHS, reducing costs and expectations so that the slices carved off of it look like a better 'buy' for the private companies who take over. Lower the bar till the service is abysmal, unworkable - the private companies don't then have to make much effort to claim they have improved the situation and it is easier for the government to 'sell' privatisation as the solution, at least in the minds of the hard of thinking.
of course, its an MO so well worn as to become predictable now. Most recent example being Royal Mail- and in its end deliberatly undervalued despite market advice, the usual suspects gaining from this undervaluing. Osbournes mate made a killing on it. Thats normally called insider trading and people are supposed to go to jail for it. Mind you if osborne can't be shifted from position even after being pictured with a bowl of chang in front of him while in a brothel then what does it take.
 
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Doctors already work weekends; many NHS support staff (critical to progressing many cases) don't. Most of the working population don't work weekends.
A lot do, though. Perhaps we should allow the Army to only fight wars between 9 and 5, Monday to Friday. Or stop the trains on the weekend, or the police, or....well you get my point.

Of course people working weekends should get days off in the week, but I think a 7 day NHS is, fundamentally, a good idea.
 
A lot do, though. Perhaps we should allow the Army to only fight wars between 9 and 5, Monday to Friday. Or stop the trains on the weekend, or the police, or....well you get my point.

Of course people working weekends should get days off in the week, but I think a 7 day NHS is, fundamentally, a good idea.

Which bit of 'doctors already work 7 days a week' are you not getting? Seems you are incapable of digesting other's points.
 
I'm just pointing out that comparisons with the miners strike etc are so wide of the mark it's unreal.

It's not being "compared", an equivalence is being drawn between the state's intentions with the miners then, and the state's intentions with the doctors now.
 
It's not being "compared", an equivalence is being drawn between the state's intentions with the miners then, and the state's intentions with the doctors now.

Fair (er) enough. But if that is the case I think the state was wrong in the miners strike and correct now. Simple as that.
 
A lot do, though. Perhaps we should allow the Army to only fight wars between 9 and 5, Monday to Friday. Or stop the trains on the weekend, or the police, or....well you get my point.

Of course people working weekends should get days off in the week, but I think a 7 day NHS is, fundamentally, a good idea.

Firstly, you have no point since doctors already work weekends.

Secondly, we do have a seven day a week NHS.

How do you manage to get so much wrong in such a short post?
 
I could never afford private healthcare in a million years. The point is, they are letting down the people, like me, who pay their salaries.

How? By striking to make sure that the care you get isn't from a cynical, over-worked and over-tired stress case?
I've had about 40 hours of outpatient treatment by junior grades in the last 12 months, stuff where an over-tired doctor doing any of the investigative procedures I've had could have caused life-changing or life-ending damage. Personally I'm glad that they're exercising their right to strike over the matter of the new contract. It shows a damn sight more social conscience than any member of the government has in this matter.
 
If anyone is really, seriously interested in shifting their thinking about the public and private sectors in general.... and I mean seriously, then I would suggest watching this.



It's about six years old now, but still very relevant. But you have to watch the whole thing (an hour and a quarter's worth) to get the most out of it. The NHS isn't dealt with until the latter third of the programme.

This was a game changer in my thinking.
 
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