AS resident doctors prepare for another walkout, doctors, NHS staff, and their families have returned to criticism, IndependentEmotional of life on the front line, comments with the first hand accounts.
Our broad community is rapidly divided on their demand for upcoming industrial action and 29 percent increment. A reader insisted Doctors should “be ashamed”.
Between the divisions, however, many medics defended strike As a last remedy after years of burnout, pay erosion and understanding.
Many people said that doctors face insecurity of jobs, increasing cost of training and very little respect from the public.
While a parents recalled their son working 90+ hours week during the festive period, the other said that the “greedy doctor” was not only wrong, but was “heartbroken”, and accused the government of breaking the NHS.
But not all supported the British Medical Association’s decision to strike. A drug called 29 percent salary demand “excessive” and warned that the walkout could cause more damage to the patient’s care.
What they had to say here:
90-hour week
The gods were very kind to me, and I had three children. They are all of the same intellect. My eldest son decided to make a career in commerce, as my daughter did. My younger son, from the age of fourteen, created his places on the medical profession. After 20+ years, my younger son is now an advisor working in NHS. The original salary of my elder son is 2.5 times my younger son. But they also get quite enough bonuses, a share issue at the end of each financial year and mainly about 8-9 hours per day, 5 days per week.
Anyone can conclude that any person wants to enter the medical profession, either a nurse or doctor should have a completely bonfire … but thank you to heaven!
When my younger son was a ST1 (special trainee year 1), we were all sitting at the dinner table on Christmas day, and it was revealed that he managed to receive the Christmas eve, Christmas day and boxing day. Asked how he managed this, his answer was on this effect: “I will take pain when I go back.” It later emerged that their first two weeks ago both were 90 hours, and the third week was 93 hours. His observation of 93 hours: “I wouldn’t like to see me after 93 hours.”
Temples
Do you support a doctor’s strike? Share your thoughts in the comments.
I was easy to turn back
Our daughter FY1/2 (Foundation Training), SHO (Senior House Officer), Reg, S/Reg, is now working for the first time in a NHS advisor and one place …
He had the same terrible work situation as I did during training, but he had to struggle with EWTD (European Working Time Directive)-where he still worked crazy, but the management could not accept to be a short-staff, so no ‘overtime’ was very difficult …
I was easy to look back …
Scobiythedog
Nobody will understand outside NHS
I don’t think anyone outside NHS would really understand that he would like to become a resident doctor or appreciate the demands of the job. Five or six years of medical school, more than £ 100k loans, your 20 and 30 examination fee, and not to mention the responsibility of keeping emotional labor and people alive.
In the clinical years of the medical school, we spend most of our days on wards, essentially unpaid work. The medical school is tired, but it is worth trying to become a doctor. In our final year, we are allocated randomly to take two -year foundation training to work in any hospital in the United Kingdom. This process does not consider someone’s family commitments, relationships or grades in a medical school.
As long as the prescribed work hours are capsed, there are weeks where one can be on the Rota to work for 72 hours. Of course, people often have overtime due to lack of staff and charge. There are often many patients and enough doctors or nurses to cover the wards. Lunch brakes are often 10–15 minutes, or not at all depending on the clinical picture.
The emotional toll of seeing so much sorrow, illness and death, and the weight of being one to break bad news for patients and their loved ones is heavy. Especially when advice is given due to lack of patients and employees. Many times, your doctors are going through the same things in your personal life – a parent suffering from cancer, a brother who died before night – but we keep our pain and humanity aside, we show and we take care of the people we need. The nature of the job is likely to burnout, and with the erosion of salary and doctors who have fallen in public respect for hard work – is it a wonder that people are leaving NHS to work as a doctor?
Work in other countries can equally demand emotionally in a certain moment, but the staff will be better in hospitals, the public will show you more respect, and you can work the same (or less!) Hours for better salary, enjoy a better work-life balance-which is essentially better for mental health and goodness of one. To not mention, special training is less and less competitive abroad.
There is a need for attacks and increments to promote morale and maintain our home-developed talent. Unfortunately, many people fail to realize that more doctors leaving NHS spoil the lack of staff and waiting time, and it becomes difficult for NHS employees to keep NHS running, staff contributes to the burnouts and leaving the employees.
Bluepaka
The fact is that people see it as pure greed
I have seen family and friends who work as doctors, nurses, cleaners etc. Struggle on a daily basis. Often working as a single doctor on a ward with countless patients and working unimaginable hours, which takes a massive toll on them – how dangerous it is for them, on top of the top of being treated equally by patients and upper management.
A comment that I am always making is “Doctors are not as good as they used to be”, but what I understand is that almost all NHS employees are worked more on long innings, more work on long innings and are treated badly. The previous government made NHS unbearable (on my views), and employees are still doing the most difficult task to fix it.
The fact is that people see it as pure greed, actually the heart -breaking and it takes away from what these heroes are doing and putting on a daily basis. The government should simply be ashamed of trying to try the backbone of the society to ask for better working standards.
Conmakpice
Well -worthy remuneration
Many commentators clearly have no idea of ​​current functioning situations within NHS. Doctors have several degrees and trains for seven years before starting their practical training. The “Junior Doctor” is a depth an angry title, as is the “trainee doctor”.
Then they have specialization and again training – again, up to five years.
He has ruins professional membership for Royal College, MDU, BMA, etc.
Many professional courses are paid for their own pockets. An on-call is expected which also your family conditions-Christmas, Easter, School Holidays. Doctors have cut 30 percent wages. They all seek, their well -worthy and earned remuneration is the return.
When a doctor reaches the advisory level, his wages cross the upper tax levels, which means that they earn less while they were training! Now many doctors of training in Britain are planning to live in other countries which pay their price. Election is yours – support your doctors or lose them and trust poorly trained, unqualified medical colleagues. Trust me, you will really start crying.
Yerbals
I stayed for money
Doctors have always been exploited by NHS and continues to be the same. When I was an NHS consultant, the salary was bad and then I “permission” to the two eleventh of that low salary to see private patients – but incredibly “required to give all the time to NHS to NHS compulsorily”!
It took me some time to realize that I was considered as an employee as I was told. I returned to Britain when I did not need to work again.
This is a waste of attempt to complain about NHS exploitation of your employees – just use your skills elsewhere. Bonn Chance!
Clemore
As a medicine, I do not support this strike
As a medicine, I am not in support of this strike or requested increment, and I am ashamed of my own Union (BMA).
I do not like the way NHS is going. It was always seen as a business, which means that when you sign up for Made School you know what you are taking. But today there are many problems that are caused by gradual governments, and now this excessive salary request ends its stability.
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Doctors have no job protection
Some people realize that doctors have no job protection. Inadequate special training places are available after their two years of qualification training, and so they have to scramble around to find one of some short-term 12-maines fellowship contracts or they are out of work.
Along with this, they have to suffer the ignorance of their assistants (physician colleagues), which pay more than £ 10,000 per year. If this were the case, there would have been anger there. All resident doctors are trying to fight for proper salary compared to PA and job security. It does not seem unfair to me.
Tuscan
Salary should be maintained with inflation
Everyone is eligible for their salary with inflation since 2008. All include doctors and other NHS employees.
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