Bears Shit in the Woods

And NHS staff get abused at a ridiculous rate. Welcome to the wonderful world of obvious statements, although recent "research" enblazed across the tabloids would suggest that this abuse is a secret, new issue. The fact is, NHS staff work under pretty unique conditions. They work crazy hours, in the absence of an adequate number of colleagues, without great equipment, with patients and relatives who believe, unfortunately incorrectly, that because they pay their taxes that they should be entitled to the best health care physically possible. In reality, they get what the NHS can afford. And blame the staff when the "miracle drug" is in fact a cramped bed on a noisy, indignant ward crammed the seams with MRSA and "psycho nurses". Well, that's what the media would have you believe.
I hear so many stories that cast the NHS in a bad light that I've started telling people that doctors actually hate people and want to see them suffer. We get up every morning, dole out the illegal overdoses of morphine, spray MRSA from little cans, fill the beds and waiting lists up with unnecessary cases and then start mentally abusing whoever is left alive.
So just for a change, when a news story actually takes our side, it treats a long standing issue like it's just started. Notices against abusing staff have been on ward walls for at least a decade. Paramedics have been wearing stab vests and asking for police escorts for ages. Nurses are treated like crap, doctors like malpracticing idiots. My point? I'm not really sure, but maybe it has something to do with sympathy for medical professionals, I don't know. The patients may be ill, but when they get better, they can go home. We will still be there, every day, with more ill people. So although we care, we are still human, and not bottomless pits of love and affection. Treat us with respect in your time of need, and we won't half mind.