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From: "Steve Meek"
Subject: Re: Consultant Contract
> I hope a no vote will be followed (after the
> inevitable media slur, which we can live with) by our
> beloved government quietly renegotiating with new BMA
> leaders. We should remember that they have a
> overwhelimg desire to demonstrate nhs improvements
> before the next election and getting consultants to
> work outwith office hours is central to that plan. The
> irony, of course, is that our specialty already does
> programmed evening and weekend work across the board.
Yes, there are BMA scaremongers who portend that if we don't accept this
deal, we won't get a second chance for another 50 years. I rather expect the
opposite effect - if we do accept this deal then we won't get another chance
to change it until at least 2048! It says something Steve that those of us
who already do programmed evening and weekend work see no benefit to this
contract. How on earth then will the majority of consultants who don't work
this way see any advantage?
> Couldn't help noticing at the aforementioned roadshow
> tonight how the cover of the glossy BMA contract
> document looks like 'dark side of the moon' the pink
> floyd album from 1973. Appropriately, there are tracks
> on it called 'money' and 'time').
> steve meek
> currently resting
Amazing, but wasn't that album a seminal work, a watershed in musical
history? Can't see the BMA contract having the same effect on the masses!
You sure you haven't been inadvertently exposed to hallucinogenic substances
from your punters - you work near Glastonbury don't you Steve?
Adrian Fogarty
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