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Culture War Roundup for the week of April 24, 2023

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I'm only conveying what I've heard from lurking around, given that they're in the midst of industrial action, I suppose they're hyping themselves up as much as feasible.

The bigger issue is a massive decrease in QOL of doctors in living memory. They need a ~40% pay raise to restore their pay to 2008 levels after adjusting for inflation, for the same amount of work. That's on top of dealing with crap that doctors from other countries largely don't worry about, like rotational training making it very hard to buy a house or maintain a relationship.

I think any set of doctors would be pissed if they saw their wages being chipped away at that pace, and it's not a historical phenomenon, it's well within living memory. That's leaving aside how much less respect they get compared to their foreign peers, especially with a nominally flat hierarchy of all health workers. I've read about nurses making comments to junior doctors without issue that would have had them chewed up anywhere else.

Still, the UK has a great deal further to fall before it becomes worse than living in India, so it's a largely moot point from my perspective. If I get some rather distressing bureaucratic issues dealt with, I myself might CCT and flee, but that's assuming a business as usual economy, which it very much isn't going to be. At that point, simply tolerating that shit till I have citizenship in hand, something far more valuable than wages at that point.

The bigger issue is a massive decrease in QOL of doctors in living memory.

Yeah... every once in a while I wonder how does anyone still want to be a doctor. I probably couldn't do the job even if I wanted to, and even if I could, the responsibility sound nerve-wrecking, and the compensation just doesn't seem worth it.