Almost half a century ago, in the late 1970s, Dr Vernon Coleman (the first ‘TV doctor’ in the UK) warned that medical schools preferencing women over men to study medicine would end up in disaster, and he’s been proven right. For decades around 70% of graduating medical students have been female, and the slump in NHS capacity that has predictably resulted from women’s work/life preferences (hint – more life, less work, a preference for part-time work, if any) has been a major reason why the NHS in general (and the GP service in particular, given that most GPs are women) has been unfit for purpose for decades. It also led to the scandalous phenomenon of the NHS poaching doctors from poor countries (e.g. India, Pakistan, Nigeria) which can ill afford to train and then lose them.
In our election manifesto we have a section on healthcare (pp.73-5), our proposals include this:
The feminisation of the medical profession, arising from a preferencing for women to take medical school places since the 1970s, has had a disastrous impact on the GP service in particular. Men should be preferenced to take medical school places until such time that a minimum of 50% of practising GPs are men.
There’s an army of DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers in the NHS, otherwise unemployable parasites one and all, and you have to ask what they’re doing with their time. It’s certainly not ensuring that the NHS recruits and/or promotes people along UK demographic lines.
The NHS has long been systemically sexist and racist. There’s a major GP practice in Bedford, my hometown, the Putnoe Medical Centre. Patients are seen randomly by whichever GPs are on duty at the time. A friend is a patient and remarked recently that in all the years he’d used the centre, he’d never been seen by a white male GP. So I thought I’d look into the details of the doctors, here. 13 of the 15 are BME. All the nurse practitioners and healthcare assistants are women, of course. Gender and racial equality are fine things. From the practice’s Equality and Diversity Policy:
Diversity implies a wide range of conditions and characteristics. Diversity encompasses visible and non-visible individual differences. It can be seen in the makeup of patients and the workforce in terms of gender, ethnic minorities, [my emphases] disabled people, trans identity etc.
I recently accompanied a relative for her hospital appointment at the South Wing of Bedford Hospital. The clinical staff we encountered were all BME, almost all women, and the only white employee we saw was a cleaner. I imagine DIE managers are keen to recruit more white cleaners.
Long story short? It’s OK to be sexist and racist so long as the targets of your bigotry are men and/or white. In many organizations including the NHS bigots are paid handsomely to exercise their bigotry.
As Dr Jordan Peterson pointed out in a video, DIE must DIE.
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