By Anon
In 2004, the UK’s Labour government gave doctors a pay rise of around 35%, and allowed doctors to opt out of evening and weekend work.
Three doctors in my small town, in the UK, have very recently retired.
All of them are in their early fifties and all of them live in large expensive houses.
Yesterday I visited a patient in our local hospital.
All the doctors in the hospital looked as if they had just left school.
All the nurses looked harassed.
Increasingly it is difficult to see a ‘full-time’ doctor at a local surgery.
Yet, Britain’s top paid locum will earn almost £500,000 this year.
3. They feel under pressure because of the exodus of their colleagues.
The UK government is trying to solve the problem by recruiting more doctors from overseas.
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