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To think the junior / resident doctors are greedy, selfish, entitled & lazy?

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SpottyAlpaca · 07/04/2026 19:32

So the resident doctors are out on strike. Yet again. Patients are being inconvenienced & treatments delayed. Yet again.

They have received a pay rise of 28.9% over that last 3 years, which is by far the highest increase of any group in the public sector. Very few people in the private sector, who ultimately pay the doctors’ salaries, have received anything like as much. Very few of their patients will ever earn as much as a resident doctor. Yet still it’s not enough and they are demanding even more.

Doctors do an important job and deserve to be paid properly for it. But the BMA’s current approach is completely unreasonable and deluded. They talk about “pay restoration’ to 2008 levels but that’s completely unrealistic. The country is poorer now & simply can’t afford it. AIBU to think they should get back to work?

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SunMoonandChocolate · 07/04/2026 19:44

At the end of the day if the money isn't there, they can't have it, and personally I think they were stupid to turn down the latest deal, as it sounds like cutting off their nose to spite their face.

However, in saying that, I'm not in their shoes, but just know there are a LOT of people out there who would love to earn the money and have the opportunities of progression that they have.

Auroraloves · 07/04/2026 19:42

Ive worked alongside junior doctors and they are definitely not lazy or selfish, they barely get time to sit and have a drink.

they work hard. The bottom of the pay band is very low considering how much training and expertise they have.

wheresthespuds · 07/04/2026 19:40

I suppprt them

Redrosesposies · 07/04/2026 19:39

What does HTH mean?

Yes they should get back to work. Many newly qualified doctors can't get a job so if you've got one you should get on with it and if you're in A&E do it a bit quicker.

DunnockMam · 07/04/2026 19:39

There is no denying they work incredibly hard, long shifts and stressful hours and study for a long time under a lot of pressure.

But here’s the hot take: they are studying and working their way up for a long time because medicine is complicated, human beings are unique and no amount of study compares to the experience of working in the field. There are way too many residents who think they know everything and misdiagnose, miss things, dismiss patients and have no bedside manner. I see it every single day. They HAVE worked hard. But it doesn’t mean they know everything in their first few years of working and the slow progression is reflective of that.

Blimms · 07/04/2026 19:35

Queenonfleek · 07/04/2026 19:33

No I don’t .. HTH

It always makes me laugh when people write HTH, as if they think they’re doing some kind of mic drop.

Queenonfleek · 07/04/2026 19:33

No I don’t .. HTH

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