I am torn between enormous admiration for the Doctors
demonstrating their disagreement for the unsafe and unfair Junior contract
and horror at the existence of the situation. Both for the
Juniors and the Consultants supporting them.
When the entire Consultant body of a department feels motivated to write
this
Big respect to clinical directors & other managers who stand up for their staff @IminworkJeremy pic.twitter.com/vQaVpGlJvo
— nuwan dissanayaka (@nuwandiss) October 27, 2015
We know we are all in trouble. This should never have developed into an industrial
dispute, this is a grown up profession compelled to turn to the language of
strike and protest to protect us all. This
is utterly horrifying, dispiriting. I
can only think about it for short periods of time before I think my head may
explode so goodness knows what it is like for the Doctors.
As a specialist Radiographer Sonographer I am part of a
group actively promoting the advancement and development of a research culture
in our profession with the aim of improving patient care and to retain motivated
driven people in clinical practice. My recent and now apparently incorrect
mantra has been that no one questions Doctors who do research. Apparently I am wrong and Mr Hunt does
question the value of anything which he does not understand as the core
function of Doctors.
I would like to believe that Mr Hunt lacks analytical skills
and is unaware that using selected extracts from a paper taken out of context
is a big academic no-no in any field but sadly I have to conclude that he knows
exactly what he is doing.
One lovely tweet I saw suggested that a suitable Christmas
gift for Mr Hunt would be the superb How to Read a Paper by Trisha Greenhalgh https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh He would
have plenty of time to get his head round it during his Christmas recess 17th
December – 5th January. For more information on when MPs are not sitting follow the link below.....
http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/business-faq-page/recess-dates/
So, this is very much about Doctors but will soon be about
all professional groups in the NHS.
Sonographers are probably safe as Mr Hunt (like most other people) has
probably not heard of us and if he has, he has not the faintest clue what we
do.
The sentence above should be a joke but it is clear that not
having the faintest idea what a professional does is not a barrier to trying to
stop them doing it.
