Strikes are never simply about the stated issue or grievance, so the doctors day of industrial inaction is not just about the changes to their pension arrangements.
They are just very fed up – the resentment over the botched changes to the system of specialist training still rankles, they have to cope with the upheaval of the major changes to commissioning, now this. And it mainly affects the younger (aged under 50).
But they are not getting too much sympathy – they are well paid, everybody else is facing pension cuts, why shouldn’t they.
If they want to get more of their patients on their side they really do need to pay attention to things like not using words like obese, not nagging us to have intrusive tests for this that & the other if we don’t want them, & stop telling us that it is all our fault because we are sinners.
They need to show that they like us – as the Queen has proved.
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