Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The only substance fit for human consumption in my flat after fifty two hours of night shift working over the past weekend is some nicely packaged muesli. Bought out of guilt in an effort to counteract my diet of coffee, hospital canteen stodge and stress-relieving wine, it disappointingly has the taste and texture of torn up coffee filters. Still, even then it is easier to swallow than the words tweeted by Jeremy Hunt’s PR machine immediately following his last-minute decision on Monday evening to engage in negotiations with the British Medical Association. Then I was angry as well as I’m hungry, so it’s time to make it everyone’s problem.
The tension on the evening of 30th November was palpable. An 11th hour discussion was raging somewhere over sandwiches in a Whitehall conference room. Between two of the aforementioned night shifts, I hovered sleepily over a piece of white cardboard wielding the chosen weapon of junior doctors nationwide: a marker pen of NHS blue. I stared blankly at my sign. What do I write? How do I convey all of our anger and frustration on a flimsy cardboard rectangle the same size as my two-person dining table? I needed something witty but to the point. Maybe it would appear behind Andrew Neil’s head on The Daily Politics if it was rude enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...unt-plays-politics-with-the-nhs-a6760551.html
The tension on the evening of 30th November was palpable. An 11th hour discussion was raging somewhere over sandwiches in a Whitehall conference room. Between two of the aforementioned night shifts, I hovered sleepily over a piece of white cardboard wielding the chosen weapon of junior doctors nationwide: a marker pen of NHS blue. I stared blankly at my sign. What do I write? How do I convey all of our anger and frustration on a flimsy cardboard rectangle the same size as my two-person dining table? I needed something witty but to the point. Maybe it would appear behind Andrew Neil’s head on The Daily Politics if it was rude enough.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...unt-plays-politics-with-the-nhs-a6760551.html