Missing the point
div style=”text-align: center;”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://www.gwiv.com/ShutTheFuckUp.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 393px; height: 246px;” src=”http://www.gwiv.com/ShutTheFuckUp.jpg” alt=”" border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”Stick to making the tea love…/spanbr //span/divbr /Is it really worth it? What is the point of hard work? Should one bend over backwards to try and help patients, or the hospital one works for?br /br /Obviously not, thinks a href=”http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5375696.ece”Sarah-Kate Templeton/a. This particular ‘health journalist’ has a href=”http://www.drrant.net/2008/04/doh-wants-dead-patients-so-long-as.html”come to Dr Rant’s attention in the past/a. She also managed to piss off a few thousand doctors on a href=”http://www.doctors.net.uk/”Doctors.net/a by abusing her access by printing ‘quotes’ from doctors, out of context and without their permission. A more vacuous, unethical, gin-soaked two-bit hack would struggle to find.br /br /Dr Rant wonders -span style=”font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;” just what the fuck does this wailing gobshite want?/spanbr /br /The story boils down to this: There is consultant in Morcambe Bay who specialises in breast surgery. This work will be mainly breast cancer. This surgeon is probably very good. He has probably done a lot of research into breast cancer, and is widely regarded in his field. He is probably very good at his work, which is operating on patients with cancer. His basic pay is probably around the same as his dentist.br /br /Now he seems to have done a lot of overtime, both while ‘on-call’ and doing extra waiting list sessions. In fact, he has done £80,000 worth of overtime, which is probably an awful lot of work. On people with breast cancer.br /br /So, Sarah-Kate Templeton seems to want to expose the fact that a top cancer surgeon does a lot of overtime, and gets paid for it.br /br /Just what does this vexatious gorgon want?br /br /Or would she rather make the patients wait, or even not have their cancer operations?br /br /Would she rather the NHS waiting list goes up, and the surgeons cleans up at the private hospital like ’span style=”font-style: italic;”back in the day’/span?br /br /Would she rather a less capable surgeon attempted the work?br /br /By paying a local specialist to extra work as it arises is a fuck site cheaper than taking on a new permanent consultant, for whom there would be no guarantee of work the following year.br /br /But then, if anyone else did over time they would expect to be paid would they?br /br /span style=”font-size:130%;”span style=”font-weight: bold;”I mean seriously, wouldn’t they?/span/spanbr /br /The story then wheels out a href=”http://www.patients-association.com/Staff-Profiles/13″Katherine Murphy/aa, director of the Patients association. She declares:br /br /blockquote style=”font-style: italic;”span style=”font-size:130%;”“It is unethical for the medical profession to line their pockets in this way knowing that NHS trusts are being forced to cut services. Patients are being left in pain. Doctors are being given bonuses for what should be part of their day jobs.”br /br //span/blockquoteComments like this make Dr Rant want to vomit out of his nose. When a rat-faced harpy from an unelected quango spews out uninformed bullshit in a paper such as the Times, something has gone very wrong. The very statement is gibberish. If trusts are cutting services, why are they paying people overtime? If consultants are doing extra work, how exactly are patients being left? If there are waiting lists that require extra sessions, how is that covered by a day job? Funnily enough, Katherine Murphy is a former nurse, who has left nursing for a non-clinical position.br /br /The seething jealousy from chicken-shit journalism and span style=”font-style: italic;”Quango-Evny/spansup style=”font-style: italic;”TM/sup is almost palpable in pieces such as this. A ‘health journalist’ who probably got a B in her O-level biology and a failed nurse should never dictate what the NHS spends its money on. There is always debate about the appropriateness of merit awards. They are one way of rewarding and retaining specialists in their field, and stopping them fucking off abroad.br /br /However, when an expert chooses to do extra work in their time off, to operate upon patients with breast cancer, it is sheer fucking insanity to start belittling them in the public press for doing so.br /br /Anyway, Gordon Brown has seen to it, and it won’t happen again. The new tax changes mean that these surgeons might as well play golf or spend some time with their families, as his latest tax changes will mean that there will be no point in doing extra work as it will be taxed at 70%*. Just hope you don’t get cancer at a busy time, because the surgeon won’t be putting in as much overtime.br //abr /span style=”font-size:85%;”span style=”font-style: italic;”* After new 50% rate, national insurance and loss of basic rate tax relief, there or there abouts – Ed/spanbr //spanbr /a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_srKLQ9PUso4/SfoCn289UVI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/_DDA_CVkwP8/s1600-h/Dr+Rant+Banner+Spleen.jpg”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 82px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_srKLQ9PUso4/SfoCn289UVI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/_DDA_CVkwP8/s400/Dr+Rant+Banner+Spleen.jpg” alt=”" id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330575992735748434″ border=”0″ //adiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’//blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28089527-2431202199231205783?l=www.drrant.net’//div
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