On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:55:06 +0100, Mark Pasola wrote:
>Imagine being bound by PCG decisions over which we have no influence - the consequences are fearsome!
Commenting on this and the other bits of the doomsday scenario that I
snipped:
Non-cooperation won't work because you are still a hostage. It's like
a hostage in Beirut refusing to eat!
Imagine this:
All the political capital is realised by forcing through PCGs without
doctors, everybody onboard except the doctors, all pcg boards are happy
bootlicking and wallowing in the power and the glory.
Now imagine this:
The doctors (primary and secondary) are not in this cosy setup. What's
missing?
Now imagine this:
The doctors have left and formed themselves into Medical Chambers.
Thus ending all this crap about gms/reimbursement/redbook/decision and
policy making divorced from reality, etc.etc.
Your *real* power, my dear learned friend, is *not* in manipulating the
levers of power.
Your real power resides in your ability to heal.
You have a choice now:
1. Sell it cheap to a bully, remain a hostage pissing inside the tent
(it won't take long before the stench gets everybody out)
2. Or let the market decide its true value by being an indpendent
*medical* care provider working from Chambers
In the case of the latter, the NHS that they would have created without
you will come knocking on your door just like any other customer you
care to mention.
Want more details? Watch this space.
Ahmad
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