Grantanow I also watch that series and find it pretty amazing. I have mixed feelings about the change in pensions but we do need consultants to stay working as we are facing a huge shortage of consultants, particularly in certain specialisms. Anaesthetics, children, psychiatry, and heart and lung treatment have the most shortages currently with Cardiology being top of that list. There is a link between the number of doctors in training and number of consultants. Basically we can't increase the number of doctors in training if there is a drop in the number of consultants and it's not possible to increase the number of consultants because new consultants must have successfully completed every level of their lengthy training. It's a "chicken and egg" situation. Junior doctors learn increasingly complex procedures from watching more senior doctors, if the consultants aren't there, who do they learn from?
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