[Imc-uk-features] PROPOSAL: Murdering Medical Careers - and the future of the NHS?

[Genny]

Looking good.  Couple of suggestions below.

Genny

garcondumonde wrote:
> so, here's a proposal for the front, london and health pages.
> 
> 
> TITLE: Murdering Medical Careers - and the future of the NHS?
> 
> PIC: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2007/03/365397.jpg
> 
> For the second time in two weeks, a day of action was organised to protest
> <a href="en/2007/02/363576.html">against attacks on the NHS</a>. But this
> time, it was doctors and their families, demonstrating against a
> government-imposed program called "MMC: modernising medical careers" that
> is meant to shorten the length of training and increase the quality of
> service provision. Instead, it is being described as a "disaster" that
> will decrease experience, decrease education, decrease career
> opportunities, worsen patient care, destroy research opportunities and
> disempower doctors and patients alike. Usually apathetic medics of all
> types are up in arms,

I read this first as "Usually, apathetic medics of all types are up in 
arms" etc.  Probably just me, but it could be reworded to something 
like, er, "Medics of all types, usually so apathetic, are up in arms" or
"Medics of all types, not generally noted for their militancy, are up in 
arms"

  with a number of independent websites such as <a
> href="http://www.remedyuk.org">Remedy UK</a>, <a
> href="http://www.mums4medics.org/">Mums4medics</a>, <a
> href="http://www.mmc360.com/">MMC-360</a> and <a
> href="http://krishna.chinthapalli.co.uk/mmc/about.html">Mangling Medical
> Careers</a> all coming online in recent weeks.

remove full stop here

  and around 12,000 people
> taking to the streets of London on Saturday [<a
> href="en/2007/03/365387.html">report</a>, pics: <a
> href="en/2007/03/365391.html">1</a> | <a
> href="en/2007/03/365404.html">2</a> | <a
> href="en/2007/03/365425.html">3</a> | <a href="en/2007/03/365454.html">4
> and video</a>].
> 
> To find out more about the background, read <em>MMC: an explanation for
> patients</em> [parts <a
> href="http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/a-patients-guide-to-modernising-medical-careers-and-mtas-part-1/">1</a>
> | <a
> href="http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/a-patients%e2%80%99-guide-to-modernising-medical-careers-and-mtas-part-2/">2</a>
> | <a
> href="http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/a-patients%e2%80%99-guide-to-modernising-medical-careers-and-mtas-part-3/">3</a>
> | <a
> href="http://aphrabehn.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/a-patients%e2%80%99-guide-to-modernising-medical-careers-and-mtas-part-4/">4</a>
> ]. Other sites of interest include <a
> href="http://www.mtasdebacle.com/">the MTAS debacle</a>, as witnessed by
> the junior doctors of the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital, and
> various artistes of the blogosphere such as <a
> href="http://www.drrant.net">Dr. Rant</a>, <a
> href="http://www.scrubbingup.com/blogs/profscrub/blog.asp">Professor
> Scrub</a> and <a href="http://murderingmycareer.blogspot.com/">Junior
> Doc</a>. Maybe there will be an NHS in 10 years time, after all, as well
> as the <a
> href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/333/7579/0-f#161670">letters
> pages</a> of the British Medical Journal.
> 
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