Are You

[TWR]

Behind the Jnr Dockers / Student strike? I am 100% behind them.

[weecalf]

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

[sherrardk]

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).

[tonyav]

Har but sherr, is a head teachers salary as good as a consultant doctors though.
Although I understand where your coming from.

[sherrardk]

Headteachers of the biggest schools can get up to £107K.

[sherrardk]

PS - I am stirring, but the wages concerned for new doctors seem terribly low compared to new teachers.

[tonyav]

Yes they do, sherr.

[DaisyNonna]

Any answer to my question?

[tonyav]

GP or walk in centre maybe, Daisy.

[Peter Pedant]

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 ....

[ no real defence - food intended for patients ]

[Peter Pedant]

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