Although it’s junior doctors nowadays,the genuine target is the entire public sector. No 10 craves a miners’ strike momentSomeone will die in hospital as the junior doctors’ strike nowadays and Wednesday. In fact about 1200 patients will die on each day because, for better or worse, or hospital is where most people do die. Expect an attempt to seek out a grieving family alert to blame the strikers: that’s the risk the British Medical Association takes.
But emergency or maternity patients may not be keep at great risk as consultants abandon their “cold surgery” lists to assume over emergencies. Their waiting lists will lengthen even more as people in pain wait longer,but emergency patients will be getting good care from these most skilled doctors: some of their younger colleagues in training are often flying blind, in a secret state of panic.
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Source: theguardian.com