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There’s nothing wrong with being a ‘junior’ doctor

19 September 2024

6:01 PM

19 September 2024

6:01 PM

‘The wise bustle and laugh as they walk, but fools bustle and are important,’ wrote F.L. Lucas a century ago. ‘And this, probably is all the difference between them.’ The government and the British Medical Association, who yesterday announced that henceforth junior doctors will be called ‘resident doctors’, are bustling and self-important fools.

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