Wednesday, May 07, 2008

I don't think I can do this anymore


The Ferret has posted this excellent item on why doctors should leave the NHS.

"Another family member arrives, walks over to his relatives. They point at me, the relative walks over touches my arm and smiling thanks me for all I am doing.

What am I doing? Am I colluding with a system that is letting this man and so many others like him down. I am trying to tread water in a what sometimes seems a third world system. A system crippled by short sighted targets and budgets. A system where a waiting list is more important than an intensive care bed. A system where the four hour target means that patients are rushed through the hospital, not getting the correct diagnosis, waiting in corridors, in pain and critically ill.

I don't know if I can do this for another 20 years."


Anonymous will no doubt suggest that the doctor who wrote this should have done the complex cardiac surgery himself on the kitchen table while being paid minimum wage.

I fucking hate Anonymous.

1 comments:

NOT anonymous said...

It wasn't very wise of you to say you hated anonymous doc!