Beware the rabid dog……….
Yesterday evening I stumbled across a blog called Dr. Rant. The author says that he is a NHS doctor. I won’t use the language contained on the site here but the link is above for those who want to experience it for themselves, it is vile. The names that are used to describe the people the site does not like are infantile, the views expressed on the site full of hatred and malice. Understandable given these doctors feel very hard done by? Even if they weren’t the highest paid doctors in the world with one of the best pension packages on the planet, the language and venom they use to express the hatred they excrete is truly incredible.
It would appear the authors of this blog, and there are supposedly others, feel they can be haters of all things and individuals that would even remotely ask them to account for the many thousands of pounds they receive each year. Call for their death, use unspeakable language, and then return serenely to the surgery to care for us, their patients with compassion and understanding. I would suggest this is impossible. What you see is what you get with these individuals. In the same way they hide their identity on the website, they also hide their real feelings for the patient in the surgery. Don’t think for a minute that the patient isn’t, in their minds, a large part of the problem. I find it impossible to believe these individuals change that much from the time they write their blog to the time they see patients.
Militants have always been a part of the British union movement. It would appear however that we have now entered a new era where highly paid professionals find it appropriate to hide behind union activism to insure their way of life is protected even if it means patients are put at risk.
I will leave it to you to read the blog and come to your own conclusions. If you do, remember these people who are calling people names, accusing everyone, except for themselves and their colleagues, of being the reason the NHS is so dysfunctional are the people you depend on to take care of you. I am not suggesting that these individuals represent even 10% of the health services doctors. The problem however is that they are the ones who, the majority of the time, set the BMA’s policy and direction.
It is a tried and tested defence of those who have much to hide, to attack as hard and fast as possible. Use every underhanded and terrible tactic at your disposal because you will immediately take the decent people off the pitch. This group has that tactic down pat, and don’t think for a moment their hatred of those who disrupt their cosy environment is limited to politicians, managers, and civil servants. We are on that list as well. Closer to the top than you might imagine.
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