Comments by "Taffy Terrier" (@taffyterrier) on "“Utterly, Utterly Disgusting” | NHS ‘Under Stress’ As Junior Doctors' Strike Amid Heatwave" video.

@malinasworld NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe. British taxpayers are getting poor value for money.
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Indeed he does.
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Don’t Panic - only a tiny percentage of the new breed of poorly educated, badly trained, incompetent British doctors are offered jobs in said countries. English is a universal language and Australia, Canada and the USA can pick and choose. NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe.
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At least he doesn’t kill people.
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Junior doctors have never had it so easy.
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@jevaughnclarke6572 Junior doctors have received regular annual pay rises.
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@jamesbarbour8400 The US and Australia can pick and choose and will select highly educated, properly trained, competent doctors which excludes the vast majority of British medics.
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@PaulDavies4 in other words not fully qualified.
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@PeterBurnett-z7h Anyone of average intelligence can become a doctor in dumbed down Britain.
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@jamesbarbour8400 You mean the doctors whose basic medical errors cost the lives of over 12,000 NHS hospital patients a year.
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Unless you’re a doctor.
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NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe.
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@adeforeman86 They are paid more than enough.
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@roryokane5907 The new breed of dumbed down British doctors have never had it so good or so easy.
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@roryokane5907 The 35% pay claim is based on the discredited RPI measure of inflation and is economically illiterate.
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@roryokane5907 Doctors have received regular annual pay rises - their pay has not been cut.
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The 35% pay demand is based on the discredited RPI measure of inflation.
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@paulsmyth3580 Doctors are always taking days off.
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@chrisw5829 plus the cleaner had to buy his own tools.
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They owe us the cost of their taxpayer funded tuition and training in the unlikely event they are offered a job overseas.
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@santiagogomez6929 You no longer have to be smart to get into medical school.
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@santiagogomez6929 What I meant is that the entry requirements for medicine have been relaxed in recent decades to enable students of lower intelligence to become doctors in an attempt to boost the number of British medics. Most UK trained doctors working in the NHS would not have got a place at medical school 35-45 years ago when academic standards were much higher. Only a small percentage of doctors leave the NHS to work abroad.
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@santiagogomez6929 I understand the systematic lowering of entry requirements was politically driven with the aim to train more female doctors who traditionally struggled with A-level maths and physics which used to be a prequisite for medical school. For at least 24 years now prospective medical students are no longer required to achieve a good grade in maths and/or physics (traditionally the most rigorous and intellectually demanding subjects) and are awarded a place with A-levels in the two softer sciences and any other subject of their choice which considerably lowers the IQ of the average medical student. Having plans to leave the NHS does not in itself guarantee a post overseas where there may be stiff competition from highly educated doctors from other countries.
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@santiagogomez6929 There is no doubt that leaving aside the fact “A-levels” became a lot easier after the advent of GCSEs in 1988, the only reason the previous requirement to obtain good grades in the most challenging academic subjects was abandoned was to enable academically challenged students to become doctors. Also there was a massive expansion in university places to study medicine in the 1990s and if the quantity of available places is increased the overall quality of successful applicants will inevitably decrease.
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@Sherkriek That would explain a lot.
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@roryokane5907 NHS doctors are among the highest paid in Europe but provide one of the worst services in Europe. British taxpayers are getting poor value for money. The alleged “real terms pay cuts” are a superficial red herring. If a doctor moves abroad within 10 years of graduation he should have to pay back every penny of his taxpayer funded “tuition” and “training”. In any case only a tiny percentage leave the NHS to work overseas because other countries can pick and choose and will select highly educated, properly trained, competent doctors which excludes the vast majority of the new breed of dumbed down British medics.
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@jevaughnclarke6572 The new breed of poorly educated, badly trained British doctors have nowhere else to go.
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Taxpayers pay for their tuition.
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@dc4510 True - anyone of average intelligence can be a doctor in dumbed down Britain since the entry requirements were lowered many years ago.
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Excellent basic hourly rate of pay for a first year medical graduate trainee apprentice with limited practical experience taking their first tentative steps to learn the trade under strict guidance and supervision.
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@malinasworld Only first year medical graduate trainees with limited practical experience are paid a basic hourly rate of £15 but most will earn over £40k in their first 12 months when all the various add ons and premiums for unsociable hours are taken into account. In their second year of training the basic hourly rate increases.
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@charlottereynolds8394 I don’t know many fast food employees who start work on over £770 a week.
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Every student gets top school grades in dumbed down Britain. A UK medical graduate trainee will be paid over £40,000 in his first year.
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They do. They do it to help themselves.
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@Bringon-dw8dx ‘top achievers academically’ allowed to study medicine with dumbed down “A-levels” in soft subjects.
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The new breed are not so intelligent.
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