The recent dispute in the UK about Doctors’ hours and pay has attracted a lot of attention. What should we think? Lazy Doctors, or just a small case of insanity?
In a recent article in the Huffington Post, Doctor Kamalvand quite elegantly lays out the current challenges facing doctors…and therefore everyone else.

Is it not perhaps even a tad mad to take some of the most sophisticated thinkers around, and subject them to the stress of sleep deprivation (which some would argue is thee most effective means of torture) amidst the omnipresent stress of life and death decisions, and to that mixture, stir in a soupçon of job, contract, and career uncertainty?

This would appear to be a little bit like putting an expensive wristwatch in a microwave oven. At best, sparks will fly, and at worst, you may find that you’ll need to use the sun, moon and stars to plan your next few meetings.

Does it not seem really odd to you that we seem to penalise the very people who are the built-in heroic archetypes within our society?

Why is it that the professions that are so important for upholding and promoting a humane, healthy, intellectual and safe society are the very ones who appear to get penalised and treated so shoddily?

The doctors and nurses, the ambulance drivers, the police, the firemen, the teachers and the men and women who directly defend us. Why them? This seems to me to be like some kind of lunatic inversion.

And it doesn’t seem to matter which political party mouthpiece is mouthing, they all never seem to get it quite right or go far enough. What is stopping them? Who is voting for the bankers to become even richer? Not even a lot of the bankers these days I suspect.

So are we doomed to live in a dystopian present, where the good, the decent, the honest, the hardworking and the brave are penalised, whilst the fractional reserve lenders, the untaxed, and the sociopaths are glamorised, rewarded with given kudos for their latest great strategic thought?

I for one think not. We can do better than this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-shebby-kamalvand/junior-doctors-contract_b_8286172.html