Comments on Dr Rant: John's being a bit of an old fart

THE BMA are fuckers, serious fuckers. They fuck w...

2008-02-15T10:52:00.000Z

THE BMA are fuckers, serious fuckers. They fuck with your mind your inner being, your soul, serious fuckers

Don' join the BMA they are wasting your well earne...

2008-02-15T10:49:00.000Z

Don' join the BMA they are wasting your well earned money. The managers treat the staf like s**t, They don't represent your views, they sit on their big fat ar*e all day and laugh, have tea with biscuts. Stay away from the BMA.

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2007-11-05T09:19:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T08:46:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T08:13:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T07:45:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T07:17:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T06:39:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T06:07:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T04:16:00.000Z

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2007-11-05T03:40:00.000Z

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2007-11-04T08:31:00.000Z

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2007-11-03T18:11:00.000Z

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2007-11-03T17:23:00.000Z

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2007-11-03T16:23:00.000Z

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2007-11-03T15:20:00.000Z

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2007-11-03T10:42:00.000Z

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2007-11-02T21:09:00.000Z

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2007-11-02T19:06:00.000Z

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2007-11-02T18:22:00.000Z

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2007-11-02T17:31:00.000Z

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2007-11-02T15:33:00.000Z

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Nah, nah, nah, you are all missing the point! A d...

2007-06-25T07:37:00.000+01:00

Nah, nah, nah, you are all missing the point! A doctor "saves lives"! He's got a vocation, like a nun or priest, not a profession, like a human being! You're not supposed to be PAID for performing a mitzvah (good deed). In fact, it's crass to ask for money for it. (I hope the sarcasm oozes through)

I have been told this by patients who ought to kiss my feet because they are alive due to my good care. Instead, they tell me that nurses shouldn't have pensions, that we'll "get our reward in heaven" (yeah, actually!)

And since our society's values are that the idiots who work for nothing are suckers, then logically it follows that if a doctor, who's supposed to be so intelligent, works for bupkis then he's an idiot instead of finding a profession that pays.

So, you see, doctors have only themselves to blame for being in the state they're in....and nurses get told that if they're unhappy about pay and conditions, well, no one is FORCING them to be nurses...

Bah humbug.

Solicitors very much do get their own offices, phD...

2007-06-24T01:36:00.000+01:00

Solicitors very much do get their own offices, phD scientist. As a 30-year-old who chose to retrain in medicine three years ago, I have a heap of friends who are lawyers in city firms - and not only have they all had their own office pretty much since qualification, they also have their own secretary - they share the former with at most one other person and the latter with a few others.

They also have secretarial cover at night when the standard secretaries go home.

I accept what you say about management consultants - but having worked in that field previously, the reason hotdesking is en vogue in that field is that so much work is done on client sites...where your team is likely to have its own office.

I have to say I think Dr. Rant is spot on regarding flexible training - it's another thing which the "new" training schedule has completely failed to address, and which no one seems to have any idea what to do about...including the BMA rep at a panel discussion I went to last week, who was much keener on talking about his many different jobs than suggesting how we get it changed.

That's the key question to my mind - fundamentally, the medical profession agrees on the problems: the issue is we have no way of affecting the unaccountable bastards who create those problems, and our "union" appears similarly clueless and a long way from being in any way a union.

How do we make this newsworthy? Should we be getting Remedy (or someone) to try and highlight cases where things have gone wrong because the government's cut costs and try to get that in the papers? Though it pains me to say it, the way we'll get things changed is probably by befriending the tabloids...

Do 30-yr old solicitors below Partner level get of...

2007-06-23T21:59:00.000+01:00

Do 30-yr old solicitors below Partner level get offices, John?

I wonder.

When my best friend from Uni was a junior Management Consultant at one of the big UK firms ten yrs ago, there were no individual offices for anyone below Partner. The number of spots in the shared "hotdesking" office was deliberately set at slightly less than the number of people typically working there on any given day. This was designed to encourage the junior consultants to get there 30-45 min early to bag a spot.