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Is the BMA right to use 2008 as the benchmark for pay erosion?
With turnout up and rejection clear, the government’s hope of ‘strike fatigue’ was wishful thinking
Are we shying away from talking about a key feature driving the specialty bottleneck crisis?
The GMC let hundreds of doctors practice without fully verifying their identities—what does this do to public trust?
Are today’s doctors practicing a vocation or just shift-workers?
Has the BMA played the strike card too early?
While the world celebrates beginnings, the ward teaches us about endings
With inflated portfolio requirements, is it even possible for F2s to progress directly into IMT anymore?
Reeve’s budget will squeeze doctors, but will it improve the state of affairs in the UK?
Where should the line be when doctors are over-worked but patients bear the consequences...
The uncomfortable reality of private healthcare and why we can’t ignore it
The BMA rejects latest offer in just 4 hours, but was it designed to be accepted or just to set the narrative?
How some patients remind us of medicine’s persistent attempts to fix the unfixable
Why certainty and authority can be seductive (but dangerous) when it comes to clinical care.
