Doctors: saving your life one moment, getting slandered as salary-hungry saboteurs the next. In a stunning plot twist, the people who spent a decade training to diagnose your obscure rash in five minutes are now painted as public enemies… for wanting to afford heating.
🧾 “Do No Harm” – But Apparently, Do It on a Discount
Let’s get this straight:
Junior doctors are working 60-hour weeks, juggling patients like flaming chainsaws, and making less per hour than some Deliveroo cyclists during surge pricing. But the second they mention a pay rise?
Suddenly they’re bloodsucking “vultures” with stethoscopes and sinister pension plans. 🦅🩻
Weird how nobody flinches at MPs voting themselves inflation-proof pay bumps in record time, but when doctors ask to not fall further behind after a real-terms pay cut of up to 26% over a decade?
Outrage. Media storm.
Cue the headlines: “Doctors Hold Country to Ransom”, as if demanding fair compensation for life-saving work is a terrorist act.
Here’s a wild idea:
Maybe if you don’t want strikes, don’t push your best-trained professionals into burnout and debt. Because we’re one viral outbreak or mass retirement away from your nearest A&E being staffed by a single intern and a vending machine manual.
And for the record:
They’re not asking for yachts.
They’re asking for rent, childcare, and maybe a life outside of shift-work purgatory.
They don’t want to be rich.
They want to stop being poor.
Maybe if the country spent less time funding outsourced contracts and more time valuing the hands that keep the population breathing, we wouldn’t be in this mess. 🤷♂️
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Are you buying the media spin? Or do you think doctors have a point? Is it fair to demand life-or-death labour from people you refuse to pay properly? 💥🧠 Let’s hear your take — scathing, supportive, or scandalised.
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📝 The most surgical takedowns and fiery defences will feature in the next issue of the magazine.
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