Cheap doctors

Confucius said, “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”1 ⇑

But the people who run the NHS have misinterpreted this quote. It emphatically doesn’t mean, “Choose a job you love, and you’ll stick around while they nickel and dime you out of a fair wage.”

The BMA reports that, adjusted for inflation, consultants and doctors in training have seen a 13% pay cut since 2008.2

There seems to be a weird idea floating around that doctors ought to be working solely for the love of it, …