Please find below a peice I've written for Centreright.com going up tomorrow [Two weeks ago now! Sorry, Julia, this one got missed at the time - Ed]. It's a family channel so the language is tame - but wondered if you'd hightlight it on your sites as 2020health is running a petition in support of GPs! Also attached as you loose the italics.
yours
Julia Manning
Give GPs a break!
I remember his words like they were yesterday “I’m quitting the NHS”. Last year, this GP who had given 30 years of his life to caring for patients looked at me with tears in his eyes but a wan smile on his lips. Pain from the resignation and disappointment; relief from the burden and battle. “I’m an effective doctor because I know my patients, their history, their families, their jobs and their neighbourhoods,” he went on. “Up until now I’ve adapted and changed to the Government’s whim, but no more. They behave like we cannot be trusted – I can’t work for a boss that doesn’t trust me”.
You may have noticed, barely a day goes by when GPs are not being criticised and maligned, or pushed and shoved. No matter how much the Government messed up the GP contract resulting in a few doctors being paid a six figure salary, is this the way our health ambassadors should be treated? Our confidant in sickness? The professional who we trust with our most intimate care?
More here.
Thanks Julia.
Dr Rant
Dr Cardigan
Dr Blue
Dr Brown
Rev Dr Green
Dr Mustard
Mr Orange
Dr Pink
Dr Purple
Mr Salmon
Dr White
Mr Beige
Ms Scarlet
Dr Informed
20 comments:
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haven't you idiots got it????? The public is on to you overpaid freaks of nature. What is wonderful about this site is it exposes you (if you are really docs) for what you are. Money grubbing little worms. I suspect Rant, you were the snotty nosed little kid in my school with his trousers too far up the crack of his ass!!!! Give me a good vet any day of the week. At least you have to have a reasonable academic record to get into vet school.
sounds like the Nulabour control freaks are going bunker crazy. Good luck at the vets, I hope they lop 'em off to control the psychosis
Anonymous the First:
Might I suggest a vet would be the more appropriate professional to deal with a Troll anyway?
I think no one or one of his ilk is going a bit stir crasy and is all over the medical blogs being a twat.
I love it, he talks about the kids at school...yeah cos loads of the relly cool kids spend time in thier adult life trollig forums...god i bet you get all the girls.
Is nice to know at least i get to go to work and make a difference tommorrow...the only difference this troll makes is that people might think limiting breeding rights could be a good thing :)
Anon the first- sounds like unrequited love - were you thwarted by the nerd whose crack you admired from afar ?
If GPs are really that miserable with their new-found wealth, then they won't mind taking a pay cut for an easier life. Perhaps a new contract which involved doing fewer hours for less money.
The Rants came out with a comment that really struck me.
It was something like...... GPs are essential both for high clinical standards (based on their skills and continuity of care) and for controlling cost (by virtue of their gate keeping role).
Simple, eloquent and true (the Rants, not me).
Well done GPs, always served my family well and I'm sure most other families too.
What is is about the British psyche that we are compelled to knock something that is decent and effective ?
1) Thank you, A&E Charge Nurse. Somebody (articulate and apparently sane) likes us and says so. Goody.
2) Anonymouses (anonymice??): please get yourselves some names, those of us who have fried our brains in surgery all morning get a bit confused working out which of you is which- other than the really barking monomaniac one, I mean.
3) Barking monomaniac one: if we are really such devoted moneygrubbers, why do you suppose we don't all clear off to the US? (And no, it isn't becuase they don't want us.)
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Haven't you idiots got it????? The public is on to you overpaid freaks of nature.
I wondered when Alan Milburn was going to turn up on the comments section!
Hello Alan!
Let me assure you that my record with the ladies is second to none, and I've had more success with the the opposite sex than any of the myriad of friends I had at school (where I was extremely popular).
I've also had to wear loose fitting underpants since puberty becasue I have such a massive cock.
You aren't exactly 'crackeresque' in you personality profiling abilities are you, you daft twat.
This blog is like a school yard as everyone is so immature! You all deserve each other, but despair to think someone with mental age of an eight year old is actually seeing patients.
Anonymous - you are partially correct in your school yard analogy, if by it you mean that similar dynamics persist in the workplace: bullies, swots, thickos, etc, etc - then, yes I agree.
But if you mean that the ideas expressed here are childish then I think you are missing the entire point of this blog, and by a country mile.
If you overlook the style (paroxysmal swearing & insults, etc) then you are free to absorb the marvelous content.
This blog is like a school yard as everyone is so immature! You all deserve each other, but despair to think someone with mental age of an eight year old is actually seeing patients.
Oh yeah? Well I bet you smell of piss!
Anyone else amazed that Conservatives are trying to portray themselves as defenders of the NHS?
I was staggered last year to hear medical students had actually cheered after speeches by David Cameron. Maybe they’re too young to remember how bad things really were under the Tories.
Don’t get me wrong, the current lot are dire. But that other lot would be far, far worse. Sadly I fear I’ll be able to say ‘I told you so’ ten years hence.
Things are now so bad that I'd throw flower petals at Thatcher if she came back.
I'm seriously considering voting Tory for the first time in my life - and I'm not called Dr Pink for nothing!
You appear to be the freak of nature, anonymous.
And who should get 6 figure salaries if not docs? The two groups of professionals I always think should get that are 1)docs and 2) pilots. There are no other professions that are a highly pressured and as important.
Actually, a few nurses that I've met probably deserve really high salaries too.
But the people who really get huge money are NEVER the ones doing anyone any good.
Politicians for example.
Why on earth would you want docs to be paid little? Does it make your own sense of self worth less to see highly qualified highly stressed professionals working hard and getting well remunerated for it?
Another group who do not deserve 6-figure salaries but always seem to walk off with the biggest paycheques: Bankers, and those who "Work In The City". I think healthcare workers, teachers, fire-fighters, etc. deserve a bit more proportionality in their salaries. When the economy is good, we don't get 13-month bonuses + christmas bonuses + expense accounts do we?
-Poorly Junior Doctor.
Nate gains: absolutely right. Whatever the current government do to us (and they have made a few changes in the NHS which have actually helped people- e.g. some of my patients are now getting their CABG surgery ante-mortem, which one has to see as an improvement)- we'd be very unwise to trust the other lot. Supping with the Tories requires an infinitely long spoon.
I am not in any way involved in healthcare, I am an ordinary "man in the street" (actually sat at a desk) and am known as a patient. I used to be in awe of doctors - any doctor. Why? Well because they have always been there when I, or my family members have been ill, sometimes seriously. They have always given excellent advice (sadly not always taken as much as it ought - you know, the usual "lose weight & take more exercise") and in at least one case have saved my life with their diagnostic skills. I have much to be thankful for in the GP's of this country.
This is part of the reason why I am so incensed about the way this government is treating OUR GP's - because you are "our" GP's not the government's - in theory the politicians are there merely to administrate the wishes of the people who elected them (or not, as in the case of New labour at the next general election). What is being done to GP's, dumbing down of the NHS, Nurses, Ambulance workers, cleaners etc etc is frankly so astonishingly unbelievable, I am lost for words.
Please know that there are many more like me out there - we would support you, our doctors far more that you can believe - you deserve every penny of the money you earn (and you DO earn it don't you?) - your only weakness as far as I can see is that most of the public have no idea of how bad things are becoming. With a good deal more PR the NHS could be heading back to being the envy of the world it once was.
But to you, the ordinary doctors and GP's reading this - just know that you will have our (hopefully) undying support in whatever actions you need to take.
Warmest Wishes
Steve
Nate Gains:
It wasn't medical students who cheered.
It was 12 000 junior doctors who had just marched in protest through central London.
We are fully qualified doctors, in specialty training. We are an average age of 30. We are parents, we have mortgages, we have lives. And the Government in their infinite wisdom decided to allocate our posts across the country with a random crapshoot of a system less fit for purpose than most people will believe, with less choice than a university application form.
We are grown ups. This is wrong.
David Cameron said so and we cheered.
(It wasn't so much cheering him as cheering the fact that someone recognised that fact.)
Steve
You're a gentleman. It's nice to see someone in the comments section echoing what we here when we meet out patients face to face. It really is all that keeps most of us going someday (apart for the Aston Martin in the general direction of the Golf Course!)
Rachel
You hit it right on the head there! I was there. Cameron walked right past me on the way to the stand. What he said was common sense. It got cheered.
Still, mine enemy's enemy and all that!
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