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Needles, Pay Rises and Union Tantrums: Why the BMA’s Freebies Might Cost Us All

Needles, Pay Rises and Union Tantrums: Why the BMA’s Freebies Might Cost Us All

Junior doctors, strike threats and the cruel joke of handing out loyalty cards while patients queue for cancelled care.

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Chris Geiger
Jun 30, 2025
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Once upon a miserable Tuesday in 2007, a junior doctor once jammed a needle into my arm so enthusiastically that I suspect he mistook me for a practice cushion bought off Amazon. This was back when I naively believed “junior doctor” meant a fresh-faced genius brimming with compassion; not a bleary-eyed mortal clutching a syringe like it was a medieval j…

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