Il pioniere della IVF Robert Winston ha lasciato BMA per gli scioperi “pericolosi”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/nhs-waiting-list-doctor-strikes-drrcf7jkj
di WilliamWeaverfish
Il pioniere della IVF Robert Winston ha lasciato BMA per gli scioperi “pericolosi”
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/nhs-waiting-list-doctor-strikes-drrcf7jkj
di WilliamWeaverfish
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>One of the country’s best-known doctors has resigned from the British Medical Association, warning that “highly dangerous” strikes will damage public trust in the profession.
>Professor Lord Robert Winston, who pioneered fertility treatments in the UK, has quit after more than 60 years as a member, stating that the BMA’s leaders “provide a poor example” to aspiring medics.
>Winston, 84, has been a member since qualifying as a doctor in 1964 but warned that the latest round of strikes risked “long-term damage” to the public’s faith in doctors, and had moved him to resign from the BMA on Thursday.
>This week the BMA’s wing of resident doctors announced a five-day strike at the end of July as they demand a 29 per cent pay rise.
>Winston told The Times: “I’ve paid my membership for a long time. I feel very strongly that this isn’t the time to be striking. I think that the country is really struggling in all sorts of ways, people are struggling in all sorts of ways.
>“Strike action completely ignores the vulnerability of people in front of you. Doctors need to be reminded that every time they have a patient in front of them they have someone who is frightened and in pain. It’s important that doctors consider their own responsibility much more seriously.
>“Doctors have this great privilege, this great responsibility. If you treat patients right they will remember you in 30 years. The relationship between doctor and patient is very close to being sacred.”
>Winston is a professor at Imperial College London and pioneered improvements in in vitro fertilisation (IVF). He was made a life peer in 1995 and has presented several high-profile scientific BBC television series including Child of Our Time and The Human Body.
>He urged the BMA to abandon their plans to strike and work with ministers to negotiate solutions with the government, such as improvements to “appalling” working conditions and night shifts.
>Winston added: “Many options could be negotiated with the government and I regret that my colleagues provide such a poor example to the many young people who aspire to become doctors of the future.”
>His resignation comes as the BMA appears increasingly isolated in its latest round of strikes, commanding the support of only one in five members of the public. Less than a third of the 77,000 resident doctors working in the NHS actually voted in favour of strikes in the BMA’s ballot.
A lot of the respect for him, but he’s from a previous generation (well, multiple generations ago!)
The profession has changed a lot, much of it due to the effort of government. They destroyed the vocational aspect of the job and turned it into hourly paid employment. They may not like the result, but that should have been considered over the last few decades of reforms.
The man is 84-years-old and presumably came from wealth.
He has no fucking clue about the plights of 20- and 30-something junior doctors.
I’d suggest he keeps his patronising anachronism to himself and retires quietly.
IVF pioneer Robert Winston announces he’s a fucking scab.
Just give them the money they want, they were GOAT during covid and they deserve more money!
People should be comparing their wages against each other not by how people used to earn. I don’t see that potential ever coming back, but being in the top tier of earners and striking is not helpful.
It’s also wrong that our parents used to only need one income to run the family, 2 cars and regular holidays yet still be able to retire in their 50s
Met him once professionally – he was an egotistical knob. Can’t say more for certain reasons, but I’ve disliked the man ever since.
And now he wants to pull up the ladder after him, kind of what I expected.
I have a weird memory of him masterbating and ejaculating on one of his biology shows about 25 years ago. Does anyone else remember this, or do I have a false memory?
I agree with him and never thought I’d ever be against a strike. My family is as left-wing as it comes and I have stood solidly behind NHS staff who have been hit so hard by the impact of austerity on every aspect of the profession.
The residents are yet another group (like greedy and selfish Boomers who demanded their fuel handouts for heating the houses that they own continue) that’s handing the country to Reform in the next election.
Labour cannot fix 14 years of decline and underfunding that people chose in only a year. Creating more of the dysfunction and disruption that the country experienced under the Tories hurts everyone. The residents/junior doctors have reason to complain that their pay has decreased since Tory austerity began, but striking while Labour is beginning the gargantuan tasks of putting things right and after there have been initial pay increases is not something I can support. Shame on the lot of them. They’ve lost my support.
Personally if there was any more money in the pot I’d give some to nurses next. They got a decent rate last year and more than everyone else this year…
Boomer thinks youth of today has it too easy.
I’ve seen this one before
So someone who doesn’t need to strike doesn’t strike, good for you
Transphobe in shock “I don’t care about other people” revelation. Lol. Tale as old as time. We keep trying to tell people transphobes aren’t good people but we cant force people to listen. Then we get blamed for the country going to sh*t.
Cant make it up really.