I am an NHS patient on a high dependency unit, recovering from very recent major surgery. The government wants you to think that I am today inconvenienced by some of the mindblowing people who probably saved my life – junior doctors – whose strike action I fully support.
Any inconvenience to me in our NHS system has been caused by the increased tendency to run it in the interests of huge private corporations, many of whom having deeply corrupt relations with government.
The mendacious details of this restructuring have largely been deliberately hidden from us – the taxpayers – by governnment / corporate allies of the tax dodging mass media.
As the propaganda flies around our airwaves today, please take a step back to consult head and heart. Which is more trustworthy? A body of young, skilled professionals hoping to spend their lives reducing suffering, or the braying, banqueting zealots of a party that has much disliked our NHS from inception?
The bullying of junior doctors is part a careful and deliberate controlled demolition of our NHS as we know it. A huge carpet-bagging racket has been set up behind the logo and, for now at least, free at the point of delivery system.
Please find out more about what is going on and be wary of corporate media in doing so. Trust that doctors would never take such action without good cause.
It is, of course, politicians who have made this political, and who are using people like me as a political football.
Steven Durrant, High Dependency Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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