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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

When you consider the amount of study that goes into becoming a doctor, and the hours required to progress, all you're going to do is make it an unattractive profession for the most able and intelligent applicants. Intelligent young people will have less incentive to apply themselves to the pursuit of that career and will go into other industries where they can make the same or better money. Fewer of the best minds going into medicine, worse doctors, more misdiagnosis and treatment errors, more death. A race to the bottom. Simple as that.

I now have come to the view that instead of striking, those Junior Doctors who really feel this contract will be dangerous to Patients and not allow them the due time to care for patients.
Should just pack it up and go off to nations that respect Doctors and more to the point, having those good Doctors.

Let's see how the govt. then will provide a better 7 day service than now and how in fact the NHS will manage without those good Doctors being walked all over by this govt. now.


If Patients are being held to ransom in any way at all, it is the govt with its total refusal to remove the threat of imposing this contract who are the ones guilty of creating the climate for that to happen.

Let those who think these Doctors are money grabbers, lazy, being provocative, then put their faith fully in this govt. since this pompous govt thinks it knows it all.

Let us also then see what kind of NHS is left if this govt. continues to be stubborn and not listen, then really heaven help anyone who cannot afford any treatment and who then dare to even think of being, never mind get ill and in need of medical help.

Maybe then, those running down the Doctors in this dispute, may possibly come to realise they should have in fact stood up for, and fought, to keep such Doctors.
Rather than support a rotten govt, (who likely couldn't treat a sore throat, never mind save peoples life),to just trample over the Junior Doctors and all their valid concerns.
Honestly, I despair more and more at times at what I see and hear from some of my Countrymen and women.