Because we don’t pay doctors enough, there are too few of us. It’s all we can do to stop people dying in NHS waiting rooms
- The writer is an A&E junior doctor in Manchester
Four in 10 junior doctors in the UK plan to leave if they can find another job. In emergency medicine we all know colleagues who are talented and dedicated, the sort of doctor who you’d want to treat your nan – and who are now working in Australia.
I’m striking because in emergency medicine, things have become so unsafe it is not tenable to continue. One of the reasons is staff shortages, because doctors aren’t paid enough.
The writer is an A&E junior doctor in Manchester. As told to Clea Skopeliti
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