Why I am not in favour of the juní doctors strikes.
In 1994 British doctors were working to rule that is they were just working their contracts to the letter so they claimed.
Did the contracts entitled them to a 2 hour lunch break
I went to an emergency eye clinic in a hospital in North London I arrived at 12 noon and I was told that the doctors were taking a lunch break which they would normally have covered.
It was 2 hours and 20 minutes before a doctor came into the clinic and in that time I had gone blind in my right eye. I was sent to moorfields hospital and I did have surgery but it was very limited in its effects and subsequently th eye deteriorated and has been a very little use to me in fact it makes the other one worse.
I am grateful for the fact that my left eye was saved but it’s been a constant strain and source of fatigue to me.
If I have been sent to moorfields two hours earlier they could have operated on my eye that afternoon and consequently it would have been saved.
By the time I arrived they had started operating on someone else with a similar condition and they decided to leave me to the next day. Sadly this was too long to wait.
I’m sure that many of us support the strikes that have occurred in Britain for example the miner’s strikea etc
While my sister was suffering from lung cancer for 18 months before she died she was also called suffering by various strikes including ambulance drivers
The dangerous drug she was taking at one time made her fall and she dislocated her hit which is an emergency and very painful and she was left waiting 10 hours before an ambulance cam e
So you may be puzzled why I don’t support workers and their rights but I know now many many people of my age or younger are frightened. Even if you have a stroke it can take a long time now even when there’s no strikes happening
The argument the doctors are using is that they want their salaries restored to the 2008 level but there’s no law in economics politics in morality or nature to say at what level salaries should be.
Asking for a 29% rise is laughable when you see what ordinary people are earning I mean manual work Peter working in calls centers carers who get £10 an hour or so. There are lucky if they get 5% rise and if you understand percentages you know that the biggest salary is the more percentage vs pay risers will give you
I can still see with one eye but there are people who’ve had other things worse than I had or even died as a consequence of doctors taking action as I have described.
What use is an emergency eye clinic if it’s not staffed all day?
I know that doctors training now have to pay very high fees but even so compared to most workers they do get good pay.
One of the problems is that people who earn a lot of money like bankers lawyers doctors do not know how low the wages are for most people I think the median was now is about £33,000 per annum. If you want to send your child to a very good public school just outside north London it will cost you ,£31,000 a year. I think doctors can probably afford to pay that but most of us couldn’t however much we scrimped and saved
Maybe I’m just being egocentric but I lost my job partly because of this incident.
Will I change my mind? I don’t think so
I woke up the next day and I thought someone who put barbed wire under my eyelids but it was the stitches in my eyeball.
Don’t worry about cataract surgery because the lens of the eye is at the front and so it’s easier to do things there but the retina is at the back of the eye so it’s difficult to get access to it.
That’s why I had this stitches in my eyeball
Many people have had worse things happened to them but this was pretty bad and I still have a lot of struggles to see things and our devised some imaginative ways to cope but now I’m having problems using a computer
The BMA is giving ammunition to political parties like Reform and generally to most people on the right
In my opinion doctors are not workers in the way that coal miners, care workers, are.
How my heart sings 