Nostalgia and selective memory raises the ruling on doctors’ strikes doctors

Write in response to Professor David Cameron (letters, July 28). She also trained as a doctor during the eighties and early 1990s and witnessed long working hours at the time. It is easy to fall into the trap of nostalgia and selective memory whenever we become older and separate from the front lines. She sponsored the hospitals she worked in, which were less managed than they are today. I worked in a close team, led by a consultant I was responsible for, who was responsible for me. I spoke to any managers. I was provided with residence, hot food, day and night, and other privileges.

I speak to many young doctors in my current workplace and see the circumstances they work in. They are isolated and harassed by managers, who in turn are harassed by a target -based culture. Their training is politicized and mitigated by the doctor’s assistant program. They cannot get hot food after four o’clock in the evening or on weekends, and they pay for parking, and they are reduced by hospital accommodation services and they see their salaries eroded through inflation awards over many years. Their holidays were surprised that they are angry. The wage is the fastest way in which they can get some remedies to deteriorate in the working conditions they suffered from.
Dr. Robin Hollands
Consultant, Sharousbury

As a doctor in the first year (FY1) who almost completed my first year of medical training, I felt very frustrated by the speech about the doctor’s resident strikes. The British Medical Association (BMA) failed to properly call for the changes that would improve the practical life of doctors and the media were greatly criticizing the current goals of BMA. It was very generous for the government to provide us with 22 % in wages last yearBut the current BMA demands by another 29 % are completely unrealistic and deaf appear to many other public sector workers who have received much less. So it is not surprising that many media outlets have agreed to be “greedy”.

Nevertheless, I think the strikes are a representation of lack of pleasure in much deeper than the current situation of resident doctors and should be treated. Doctors residing throughout the country often work in large -scale hours on the functional hospital wings, with continuous prospects for job progress. The latest BMA numbers that 52 % of FY2 doctors have no safe work from August Very horrific and it is a system failure that may threaten the future of NHS.

It is time for BMA to have woke up to the fact that there will be a severe unemployment crisis in the doctor unless urgent action is taken. This is the real problem to be addressed. Wages should remain a long -term target in the long run, but there are little salaries in improving the residents of the resident doctor if there are no future paths for NHS resident doctors.
Dr. Will Given
Sheffield