Today, some doctors have gone on strike in order to complain about their pension arrangements.
As someone who worked in the NHS for many years I have very mixed feelings about doctors. Some were undoubtedly very good and very caring; all-in-all very decent people who had no inflated view of their own position or importance. Sadly, there were others who were, not to mince my words, arrogant, ignorant, offensive, overbearing and greedy; some of this latter group treated nurses and everyone else around them, apart from their patients, with utter disdain and were even known to have reduced some of their nursing support staff to tears on a regular basis.
The state of the country's finances, allied to increasing life expectations, clearly requires addressing and there is no reason why doctors should be exempted from bearing their share of the pain to come. Doctors already earn much more than most in our society and their pensions mean that the vast majority are already amongst the wealthiest in retirement. That they should go on strike, causing misery to thousands of patients, is a digrace and simply shows many up for the greedy, grasping people that they are.
Make no mistake. Doctors are not gods and have no right to special treatment in any respect. After today's little episode, one can but hope that more people will realise this.
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