In support of iwantgreatcare.org

Christina Patterson, of The Independent, thinks that the new rate your doctor website launched this week (see below) is a great idea – see article.

Getting quite irate about the medical profession she writes:

Honestly, you’d almost think that this was a profession that regarded itself as in some way separate from society and its petty demands, a profession which thought that “flexibility” was a concept that applied to patients’ time, but not, obviously, to its own, a profession which saw the word “modernising” as a synonym (and rightly, on the evidence of the past few years) for a whacking great pay-rise. A profession, in fact, which regarded its “customers” (who pay their salaries) with contempt.

Depressing reading for hard working doctors, many of whom already feel undervalued and disillusioned with the NHS.

Meanwhile, the bloggers continue with their assault on Dr Bacon, the sites founder, with legal advice for doctors who find defamatory remarks about themselves on iwantgreatcare.org