You see, if you are an NHS Consultant with - say - firteen years to go to retirement, then Carol has a big say in whether you get a nice big Merit Award which is worth $1 million*. She's on the committee that decides. And she is one of the most powerful women in the country, so who's going to argue? Or, if you are one of the luck consultants that Carol already has given $1 million to, then she has the power to simply take it back again (or at least, the bits of it she hasn't given you yet).
Now, I'm not trying to infer in a round about manner that this is in some way linked to the stunning silence from NHS Consultants over the public humiliation and destruction of the career of the poor sap who had the stupidity to say on a doctor's discussion forum what everyone in the medical profession was already thinking. No, I'm saying it right up front. Loud and clear. It appears to an outsider, that Carol is buying the silence and compliance of the senior doctors in the NHS who will quite happily have left the profession to spend quality time with their money by the time the Dame Carol hits the fan.
Those of you unfamiliar with Dame Carol might remember her from such Telegraph classics as 'Sick Note Britain' or 'Other Women Don't Work As Hard As Me Because I Don't Have Kids and They Should Stay in the Kitchen Where They Belong'. She got hate mail for the latter, which she told the Torygraph was 'quite upsetting'. Not as 'quite upsetting' as having your entire career ruined, or getting the wrong leg amputated because Dame Carol's new training system involves choosing doctors on how well they can bullshit rather than something more sensible like, say, actually being proper doctors.
Discussing the lack of a 'work ethic' in Britain (flush from hanging out in pretty dresses at a swanky do with other Dames), Carol let any reading proles know her secret:
"I would never go shopping now if I didn't have money in the bank,"
Considering Carol is the Quango Queen who gets paid to sit on about thirty million committees, then John Lewis's need have no fear that Carol will be staying home. She's fucking rolling in it. But, thanks for the tip, Carol. I'm sure the increasing number of poor people of this land who are behind in the mortgage payments will be kicking themselves knowing that they would have avoided debtor's court if only they had waited until Tony Blair had given them gazillions of dosh before they went out and bought all that food and stuff.
And to think some jumped up junior actually had the audacity to call you a shit? A shit! I mean, there is no way that scatological terms can even come close to describing the real you. They fall so very short of the true depth of your character.
Keep up the good work, Carol. I cry when I think what the NHS would be like without people like you.
* Based roughly on 15 years of A+ merit. And that's not counting the increase in your pension.
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Having just read the telegraph piece on her benefit-scrounging-chav scum views; it strikes me that she has never seen the reality of a sink-estate, nor spent much time in a minimum wage job, nor really gives a stool about anything except finding opportunities for frantic public onanism. Don't worry, she's old and will die soon.
I love you Dr Rant, I want to have your children.
But having children would mean that I couldn't achieve as much as Dame Black wouldn't it? You could do the dishes and the cooking while I get my gong?
Well, having kids sure dumbed me down, didn't it?
Just think, without kids, I too could have been as great a turd as this rich specimen of latrine decoration.
Doctors attach enormous importance to 'intelligence' [for obvious reasons] but humans being the pesky, complex sort of creatures they are cannot be tested quite so easily for 'wisdom'.
Presumably, the BNP [Black, Paice, Needham] all have outstanding academic credentials ?
But I imagine they are hardly the sort of people anybody would want to spend much time with socially [being so driven, and all] - although this is purely speculation, on my part.
Perhaps THE COST of being very clever [in certain spheres] is a certain degree of under development in other domains of human activity, such as empathy, compassion, respect, etc ?
Psychiatrist often use the phrase 'insight' - why are BNP so lacking in it ?
Who uses a wheel to break a butterflies wing ?
Insight isn't the same as empathy and compassion, though, is it?
I'm sure Hitler and Stalin had lots of insight into what they got up to!
Academic quals are easy to get if you have a modicum of IQ and a shedload of tenacity.
They don't connote any special wisdom as all of us who've been through the educational system know well.
It's an interesting question about the intellect/empathy trade-off (i.e. balance of IQ and EQ).
From experience, knowledge,learning it seems to me that those who revere IQ/academic quals often derogate and even denigrate 'soft' skills and talents. (A correlation here between the NHS targetoid pursuit of hard outcomes rather than appreciating the equally important 'soft' outcomes which often have a huge bearing on the course of an illness).
Seems to me like more of a deliberate choice, societally as well as individually speaking, to make 'intellect' more important than common kindness, common decency and common sense.
ergo, IMHO, Lame Fish chose to be cold...
As a hospital consultant I, like all my colleagues, know that I made the wrong career decision. I should have been much better off as a GP. We know how rich GP’s are because the newspapers tell us. Whenever they let us down in some way it is because their new contracts do not allocate sufficient time to count all of their money. I know as a Consultant with 18 years seniority, having worked 1 in 2 rotas in training, and been that an old fashioned thing an S.R. I must think myself lucky to retire on 2, yes TWO, discrepancy points/uncommitted awards.
The utter wankers who are destroying the profession are not using Merit Awards as a weapon. Postgraduate training has been degraded bit by bit. Always with some explanation for each debasing step that was quasi-plausible. No single step was worth powder and shot for the row that might have stopped it. The only similar example I can easily think of equivalent to what went on was how Political Commissars interfered militarily with the Republic in the Spanish Civil War Colleagues until the Fascists won (Anthony Beevor or George Orwell for details). These clinical failures infiltrate organisations in the same way. Only the brain dead will sit on committees for long enough to take over. Hospital colleagues have had the enthusiasm beaten out of them years ago. We just count the days till our pensions arrive and we can leave this dysfunctional organisation forever.
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