It would make you weep

Even though there are a few reasonable people out there with the power to make people hear what is what, there are far more who are trying to get their own point of view, their own political agenda fastened on to the junior doctors dispute.  There is one thing which I don't think has got in to the mix and forgive me if I have got this wrong but in a 7 day N H S who is going to pay all the other staff, the radiographers, the haematologists, the pharmacists, the scanners and cleaners and porters and receptionists.  When you go in to the staff area of car parks at most hospitals at the weekend there aren't many cars.  The cars that are there belong to the doctors and the spaces belong to most of the rest of the staff. These people will need paying too and the doctors I know who work at weekends say that the main difficulty is getting the diagnostics done, getting patients moved around and it isn't just not enough doctor time.  Doctors would love to be able to have a streamlined service at weekends but perhaps the doctors aren't being backed up by other N H S staff.  Jeremy Hunt and the BMA should recognise this and instead of scrapping around the disputed area and driving doctors away from training altogether and not just at weekends, they should get an overview, talk together about how you treat too many people with too few.  It would make anyone weep to see and hear the polemic and political polarisation which is taking place over this shambles and it will get worse if Jeremy Hunt insists on imposing the contract, much much worse.