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Well it did until you took away all our Band 3 jobs

We took away your band 3 jobs because the extra hours worked are paotentially damaging to patients.

Tell you what, why not use the extra free time to build up your private practice


* GD like hell away *

:-p

You can ruin anything with facts..

*in best Hattie Jacques voice*

Gentlemen please!!

*sulks*

But I want to become an incompetent zombie in exchange for vast amounts of

I didn't know you had such an interest in anaesthetics as a career, Z?

congrats GD BTW

The last thing this country needs is any more private medicos.

Have you any idea of the wait I would have to get my teeth seen to?

(that is, if I wasn't shit-scared of dentists and haven't been near one for 8 years)

B

Granny, what did I do? You can't have read my journal entry when you posted that.

B, the majority of doctors in the UK do some private work. The latest plan we've got is farming out large quantities of elective surgical work to the private sector, to break the strangle hold that some consultants have on the waiting lists, and hence they're own private practice.

Honestly... Master B, I'd rather become a prostitute than do private work.

I'm not sure how I should interpret that post...

B

At the risk of dragging this thread even further off topic...

Honestly Z, I don't get it with you and private work. What is the difference between being paid by the taxpayer via the Treasury to treat people, or being paid by a taxpayer direct?

Ethics, man, ethics.

B

That's a nasty lisp you've got there

Totally irrational GD.

Or it is when I'm too busy to argue

And here I am, bemoaning the fact the agency don't have any work for me because December's a tight month...

About the teachers having 'cushy jobs': I would differ. My parents are both university professors and even while we're on vacation (for the full two weeks) and visiting our relatives and celebrating the holidays they'll be prepping classes for the new term.

Please, my sides hurt from laughing!

Teachers have very stressful lives. I know some of them personally, and wonder how they manage to do all that is asked of them.

I don't know that much about doctors. What difference does it make anyway? They're a necessity. If you're ill, you'd rather have the better ones looking after you, wouldn't you?

BTW I don't think teachers have cushy lives. I did say I knew a few, but obviously that part was ignored. Since the age I could watch tv and read I have heard that teachers have cushy lives, it always comes up around holiday times. Therefore this convo being about holiday times, it seemed pertinent, but it was a joke about perception. Dear me, you can all get off your high horses now.

My parents were teachers. They worked hard when the pupils were on holidays.

My father marked O'level maths papers throughout July so they were ready for the pupils to get their results in August. Then he spent the rest of the holidays preparing the timetable for the classes and staff. On top of this he also had to prepare teaching scedules for his department for the year. Very rarely did they sit down to relax for much other than eating until around midnight during term time as they were marking homework.

Christmas holidays were taken up with preparing Mock exam papers.

So you think they ahve it cushy please rethink that.