#uk doctors

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

The rest are at this link.

[tearsofrefugees]

UK doctors call on BMA to cut ties with Israeli medics over Gaza

Members of BMA also passed a range of pro-Palestine motions at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in Liverpool last week, which will so

[parentstalks]

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[medical-sho]

Guardian of Safe Working Hours

Asked one of my consultants on Monday who had been appointed to the "Guardian if safe working hours" role. This is a feature of the new contract, which takes away external monitoring of our working hours and assigns a senior clinician to be a point of contact if we are regularly working over our hours. IMHO it is a position without any teeth - the guardian's powers to intervene will I suspect be very limited.

So anyway, I ask who has decided to sip from that poisoned chalice. My consultant tells me, and then adds, "And that is all I intend to say on the matter" but the look on his face says it all - a mixture of derision and pity.

The consultant in the Guardian role... I am not sure he has EVER taken a day off apart from holidays. He seems to be in every evening doing extra clinics, every weekend doing discharge ward rounds or MAU ward rounds. And he is a fiendishly hard task master to his juniors. Frankly, I don't think a WORSE person could have been appointed.

Other UK doctors... what do you think of the Guardian in your Trust? Are they all just as bad, or is my Trust continuing to scrape the barrel in every way it can?

[rickilanders]

UK Doctors Call for Removal of Israel from World Medical Association

UK Doctors Call for Removal of Israel from World Medical Association

British doctors have called for the removal of Israel from the World Medical Association (WMA) due to routine “medical torture” and neglect of Palestinian patients seeking treatment. 71 UK doctors have started insisting the WMA revoke the membership of the Israel Medical Association, after an Israeli medical representative admitted that “our doctors perform medical torture on Palestinian…

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[dxmedstudent]

Junior doctors: why are you protesting?

The Guardian is asking us why we are protesting; if you want to share your concerns and add your voice to the many (anonymously, if you wish), here’s your chance. I see plenty of replies from med students, too.

[dxmedstudent]

If you’re a UK doctor, you’ll already be aware of the fuss surrounding the government’s plans to alter the contracts between doctors and the NHS. If you’re not a doctor, you might not have noticed,...

Best summary of the situation so far, and another excellent medical blog. If you don’t get what I’m wittering on about lately about junior doctor contracts, this doc explains it far better than I can. This bit in particular...

In fact, as the DDRB frequently (and somewhat gleefully) note in their report, doctors don’t go into medicine for the money, and certainly not for short term gain. So the implication is that they can pay junior doctors badly, save on the NHS budget, and it won’t affect recruitment.And that is probably true – people don’t go to medical school because they want to earn massive salaries, and the other benefits of medicine will still pull punters in.

Speaks volumes. It’s an astute observation that everyone keeps saying that money should’t matter to doctors, precisely whilst they try to advocate paying them less. By indirectly encouraging the public to shame doctors for supposed greediness and pressure them into accepting whatever unilateral conditions are dictated to them. Try that with anybody else and you’d get short shrift. Most people would in theory accept that jobs which are hghly pressured, antisocial, highly skilled, expensive to train in, hazardous to mental or physical health, and literally dealing with life and death should be financially renumerated for this effort. We wouldn’t argue that anyone else should accept a significant pay cut, so why do we as a society expect people who do a job which ticks all of the above boxes, to work for the warm fuzzies whilst we decide to slash their pay? No, we didn’t go into it for the money. But we need to eat, raise our kids, and plan our futures too. The fact that we care about the job, and are motivated by more than just clocking in empty hours is no reason not to fairly pay us for the stresses of the job.