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May 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Sophie Borland Health Reporter
20:08 EST, 13 May 2012
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01:43 EST, 14 May 2012
Damage: Patients will suffer as a result of the action, Katherine Murphy, pictured, warned
Thousands of GP appointments and hospital operations will be cancelled next month if doctors decide to take part in their first strike in nearly 40 years.
The British Medical Association, the doctors’ union, will begin voting today on whether to carry out industrial action to protest over their pensions.
Although they have ruled-out staging an all-out strike – saying it would put patients at risk – they are strongly considering only treating emergency cases over a period of 24 hours.
A document sent out by the BMA to its 141,000 members explains that although they would turn up to work as normal, they ‘would not undertake duties that could safely be postponed.’
But there is widespread concern such protests – which would mark the first industrial action since 1975 – will bring the NHS to its knees and endanger patients.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients’ Association said: ‘This is drastic action and its patients who will suffer.
‘How can doctors decide which patients are emergencies and which patients aren’t?
‘It’s a huge risk to patients. It’s difficult enough to see a GP as it is. This action would be extreme.’
The BMA’s members will now spend the next two weeks voting whether to carry out industrial action.
If the majority rule in favour, the protest would take part over a period of 24 hours at the end of June.
Dispute: Public sector workers take to the
streets during nationwide strikes last month. Doctors could soon be
staging similar action
The document sent out by the BMA to doctors last week states that ‘care that is not urgent or emergency care should be postponed in advance wherever possible.
It adds that planned or ‘elective’ operations and clinics would be cancelled.
Instead doctors would be urged to demonstrate against the planned pension changes by carrying placards or banners.
The BMA is furious over Government proposals to make them contribute more from their salaries into their pension pots and retire up to the age of 68.
At present doctors retire at 60, and the average male can look forward to a pension of £46,000 a year.
But some have already retired on payouts of £140,000 a year as part of packages worth £4 million.
By comparison more than two thirds of private workers do not even belong to a pension scheme.
Health minister Simon Burns said: ‘There is no justification for doctors to take industrial action. Industrial action, on anyone’s part, will gain them nothing.
‘Our proposals mean doctors will continue to receive pensions that are among the highest in the public or private sectors.’
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Tell you what, scrap the NHS and you all pay “real” market driven prices for healthcare instead of the soviet-style 99 percent subsidised service
you have now. Good luck!
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Doctors are considered to be amongst the most intelligent groups amongst us How an they really expect preferential trtreatment if they have a sound understanding of current conditions?
Or is it that the medical unions have joined other trade unions in deciding that they want a free spending Labour government back and therefore must bring down the Coaltion? They should be reminded that unions are not entitled to run our politics and should stop making political decisions as opposed to their proper role.
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Silly me. I thought they were all ready on strike. Two to three week wait to see one and then you have only 10 minutes if you are lucky before they open the door to show you out.
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So much for the hypocritical oath……take the names of these doctors and streamline the NHS by getting rid.
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Short term pain (hopefully not literally!) for patients in return for long term gain – a health service staffed by a reasonable number of doctors who feel they are valued and respected after the years of training that they have to put in…
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GPs, I mean.
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At an average pretax income of £106,000 pa I would think they could bear some of the pain of Liebore and Gormless McBruin’s massive debt. Broad shoulders.
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Stop the silly little individual strikes. Politicians use divide and rule, the only defence is unite. All groups under attack by these lazy, good for nothing, silver spooned toffs should strike and demonstrate together. UNITE AGAINST THE NASTY TOFF POLITICIANS……
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did i really just read –
‘How can doctors decide which patients are emergencies and which patients aren’t?
i give up!
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It really doesn’t matter to us – the public – who has a row with each other, who runs off with the silver, or even who the government pick a fight with, it’s always us that feels the pain, always us that suffers the setbacks and always us that pays the bill.
This is why people enjoy their wars that we fight for them, Have fun with their bank raids and astute business deals and contracts that get them rich with no risk. Because we always pay, pay pay again, and then vote them all back in again to screw us and protect their friends and money, over and over again. It’s like some kind of illness we can’t get over and is usually proves fatal after a long period of suffering.
Little wonder they don’t want us getting educated
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