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Junior Doctor Resigns Live On TV To Focus On Legal Campaign

A junior doctor announced his intention to quit the NHS over unfair working conditions and pay on live TV ahead of an all-out strike. Dr Ben White stands with a multitude of disenfranchised doctors who started their working careers with the intention of helping the needy until they found out the National Health Service had turned into a for-profit organisation. Junior Doctors think that the whole NHS is jeopardized by the new working contracts offered by the government, turning them and other NHS staff into cheap, quick turnover, high productivity disposable assets, that are more suited for a place in a balance sheet than in front of a patient’s prognosis appraisal sheet. Dr White quit momentarily after getting angry over the new working contracts that are going to be imposed by the Health Secretary. He has set about to fix one of the UK’s greatest social treasures, The NHS, before time runs out and it becomes a treasure in the pocket of the rich and the not so needy. The Mirror reports: Dr Ben White told viewers of ITV’s Good Morning Britain that he would be leaving his post as a trainee doctor to join the legal campaign against Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s [...]