Doctoring is one of the jobs where the less doctoring you do the more you are paid .give the kids the money but take it from the misters in the health service
Boy #1 is hoping to be a doctor - he'll have to get the best grades at GCSE & A level and then fight fiercely for a 5 year uni place. If successful, the max he will start on is £25K. Personally, I think he would be better off having a good time, coasting his GCSEs and A levels, doing ok on a moderately ok degree and going in to teaching (starting salary £22K).
well I never had your life as a junior or consultant that is absolutely certain Sqad
as for yummy fry ups at 2 am - readers will be relieved that staff at Birmingham were successfully prosecuted for stealing an 'arctic roll' from the ward frig in 1980 ....
One is being urged to find an alternative
Such as?
qualify and go abroad
as a lot of Sqad's contemporaries did in the sixties - an exam called ECGMG was the big hurdle then
and as my niece did in 2005 - now a GP in NZ and showing no signs of reimmigrating
Oh by the way - medical students arent striking
as on the tee vee news
it si the student nurses planning to strike ont he same day as the junior doctors ( or dockers as some are calling them ) in protest at their bursaries being converted to loans