Junior Doctors Strike

[-SharonA-]

So the junior doctors are on their fifth strike. Many operations have been either cancelled or postponed.
What are the SENIOR doctors doing??? Cannot they handle an operation with the help of nurses???

[bobbinwales]

Maybe some pictures junior doctors as in there early 20s but they can be very experienced doctors age say mid 30s

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt there are enough of them.

As I understand it, the title "junior" covers most of the doctors you see (or don't see, because they're out on strike).

[webbo3]

Had my appointment cancelled today, 3rd time.

[Hymie]

I’m not sure I’d trust people working for £14 an hour to make life or death decisions about any medical condition I have.

Maybe instead I’ll ask the person working on a supermarket check-out, after all, society seems to value their skills similarly.

[Peter Pedant]

The senior doctors are doing the juniors' work
( and not their own, as life doesnnt allow you to do 2 jobs at once)

So the seniors are doing the 'takes' ( emerg admissions) which in large hospitals can be 50 patients a day

operations - listed as emerges, so the great men will be, with the helps of matrons, be taking out appendices instead of god-knos-what

[choux]

webbo, I am sorry for your situation. Currently OH is having an inordinate amount of attention for several conditions and I can only praise the NHS for the time and effort they have shown. I realise we are among the lucky ones.

[youngmafbog]

//I’m not sure I’d trust people working for £14 an hour to make life or death decisions about any medical condition I have.//


Oh, here we go again. More cherry picking of figures to suit your warped view.

Try learning what a 'junior doctor' is before making rediculous comments like that. Bobbs post right at the top will give yousome pointers.

And yes I do know what I am talking about, one of my daughters is a doctor(and technically a junior). She is a locum at the minute as she has young kids and the amount she earns would make you go pop I am sure.

[-SharonA-]

Yes the NHS has been brilliant.
Hymie the junior doctors cannot help that they're stuck on £14, which is the point of the strike. Doesn't mean to say after 7 years training they are less clever than your check out operator.

[Hymie]

If I were to tell you my hourly pay rate, it would be the base rate, not including any O/T rate or other add-ons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66360656

[youngmafbog]

You are not understanding what you are told again.

Do you do this deliberately or does the lift not go to the top floor?

Even the article you have posted says they can vary massively depending on the grade and what job they actually do. Not all doctors are equal you know.

[-SharonA-]

//Do you do this deliberately or does the lift not go to the top floor? //
Lol !!!!!!

[andres]

OH been in two different hospitals for 3 months now. Both are teaching hospitals they are overrun with foreign students and staff but for week-ends when both hospitals are practically deserted. Only admitting emergencies. Staff on the wards are sitting in front of computers all day long and most of them detest having to be using them. We ,along with the patients doctor used to receive typed discharge summaries that we could put into a file for future reference. I don't think we will be getting these any more. Today the whole hospital will be eerily quite and as I said previously the Senior doctors will only be dealing with emergencies. That's in our area up in Lancs. at the moment .
Striking is blackmail!

[Deskdiary]

YMF at 12.46 - it’s astonishing isn’t it?

I sincerely hope Hymie is wilfully not getting it rather than actually not getting it, because if it’s the latter it really is quite concerning.

New Drs earn £30k. As a starting salary that ain’t bad, but that aside, newly qualified people starts at the bottom shocker! We all did.

It’s my understanding that all Drs under consultant level are considered “junior” Drs, so that includes registrars. A registrar’s basic goes up to about £60k, add in the overtime and I suspect that’s easily nudging £100k. Add their private work (I had my wisdom teeth out in a PH under a general and the surgeon was a registrar) and I’d imagine they could be nudging, say, £150k…at least.

It has become very boring that naive people have fallen for the fallacy that our “heroes” and “angels” are poorly paid. They ain’t.

Not quite the heroes and angels the way people deified them during Covid are they when they strike and put people’s lives at risk?

[Peter Pedant]

You are not understanding what you are told again.

oh come on, that goes for 90% AB !