bimble
floofy
Sasaferrato has already explained that there's no problem in his/her mind with doctors working 72 hours straight.
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Junior doctors strike back on
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Sasaferrato has already explained that there's no problem in his/her mind with doctors working 72 hours straight.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
That isn't what is happening though. Lowering the costs of employing doctors with only 2% of doctors losing pay? Is Hunt related to Paul Daniels? This is just another part of Hunt readying the NHS to be flogged off to Branson et al.
BTW I was recently treated in Hunt's main A&E, the Royal Surrey - fucking awesome beyond words. And every study not carried out by neo-cons shows the NHS is the best value health care system in the world.
So fuck Hunt and all those who are trying to sell the NHS to make money for their mates at the expense of the sick.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Oh and if Hunt is in the right, why does he rely on repeating his lie about more weekend deaths to push his point forward?
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I think what he's saying is not that there is no difference, but that it doesn't matter any more. He's probably right, but that doesn't mean that's a good thing, or that we shouldn't be doing something to stop it going further, or to roll it back.
Plumdaff
joy in people
There weren't any doctors with you at the time then? And you didn't get paid for any of this? If there's no difference in the current world between 2pm and 2am you'll have no problem organising childcare at that time of day then, I'm sure.
As a currently practising nurse I completely stand with the doctors against this awful, dangerous contract. And be in no doubt there's coming for the nurses next, and all the protections for patient safety built up since your Carry On era of healthcare because working those hours in those conditions led to doctor error and patient harm. And clueless buffoons like you would be cheering them on. Glad you're no longer in the profession.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Some old bollocks about 'Nam, probably.
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Additional: I don't want to be self-indulgent, but I was in hospital 2 weeks ago - I was told to come in post haste because they had put something called a 'loop recorder' just above my heart and it had been telling tales on what my ticker had been up to (stopping for several seconds at a time in my sleep, among other misbehaviour)... after a bit of consideration among consultants I've been fitted with a fancy kind of pacemaker. Not to make this all about about me, but I could hear plenty of conversations among nurses (not junior doctors) about the changes to contracts, and these are seen very much seen as part of a pattern of attacks on the service ('attacks' was the word most used - there are also especially egregious changes being made to nursing training bursaries too - given the salaries that nurses are paid I can only see this as another arm of an all-spectrum assault on the NHS).
I've had fantastic care in that hospital and I've seen first hand what the vermin's attacks are doing to the morale of the really great staff. I know I'd be a wreck after even one day of what they deal with week in week out.
I wish there was something more I could do to help but in lieu of anything more effective I will be supporting these strikes with every breath in my body.
I've had fantastic care in that hospital and I've seen first hand what the vermin's attacks are doing to the morale of the really great staff. I know I'd be a wreck after even one day of what they deal with week in week out.
I wish there was something more I could do to help but in lieu of anything more effective I will be supporting these strikes with every breath in my body.
bimble
floofy
Yep. More just anecdata but.. I know a junior doctor, works in mental health arguably the most overstretched bit of the whole NHS and I couldn't handle one day/night of what he does. How he copes with the stress the responsibility the hours are beyond me. And that's after accumulating a massive amount of debt which he's nowhere near paying off, for the extended years of incredibly competitive study to qualify.
grim reading in Guardian today:By the end of my first year as a doctor, I was ready to kill myself
grim reading in Guardian today:By the end of my first year as a doctor, I was ready to kill myself
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
And let's never lose sight that these changes are not in the name of efficiency or austerity, they are in the name of ideology. An ideology that was shown to be seriously flawed 30 years ago, yet these scum keep plugging away at it as it make them richer.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I just thought: this strike's only in England, isn't it? I'd had it in mind to slope down to the local general hospital for a bit of solidarity and fist-bumps...
Plumdaff
joy in people
existentialist Welsh government has committed to not changing the contract.
Guineveretoo
Mostly bewildered
The NHS is quite differently run in Wales, so no, no chance for fist bumping on this occasion.
Indie front page tomorrow is stirring shit up.
How Whitehall officials used a top medic to build a 'hard-edged' case against junior doctors
How Whitehall officials used a top medic to build a 'hard-edged' case against junior doctors
A JD friend asked me to share this, which has a list of actions and pickets: http://jdocs.co.uk/
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I can't speak for Urban, but I would have thought that demonstrating visible solidarity with the doctors is the best way to go. The Government will be doing its level best to paint this as a series of isolated actions by a hard core of disgruntled doctors out to make political hay at the expense of We, The People. So the more The People photographed alongside picketing doctors the less weight such a fable will have.
I am just making coffee and am going to take it to the picket line, and thats it, not staying, I am not sure how comfortable they will be with lots of leftists joining them, some will, but many won't.
certainly not paper sellers, I suspect they will be asked to leave
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
That.
Or executing Hunt.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Hunt is a tool. The person that needs executing is the one holding his handle.
Although if, in the process, Hunt should accidentally be dropped upon his head and no doctor is available to treat the depressed fracture, well, que sera, sera.
Either visit the picket at your local hospital (most start at either 745 or 8, and go on till 12 at least) or go along to show support at a a "meet the doctors" event: we are running these in public places near the hospitals to explain our position to anyone interested...
And thanks for the support.
you're Obsessed.
I've never wanted to sell a paper before. I do now...
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
You're going to need all the support you can get: whatever Cunt & Co have done so far, it is as nothing to what they are going to throw at you by the time Strike Day comes around.
I'm in Wales, so no pickets to join or support, but I'm trying to do my bit online, publicising, arguing, and so on.
More power to you all - if ever it was needed, now is the time.
superfly101
Well-Known Member
Like this from yesterday?
Moet medics: High life of docs’ leaders who are heading up NHS strike
Moet medics: High life of docs’ leaders who are heading up NHS strike - Google Search
free spirit
more tea vicar?
the sun are getting slaughtered in their comments feed on that article.
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