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Junior medical professionals are threatening to strike again. So what, you might state? When are they not threatening a walk-out? In the previous two years, they have actually taken industrial action 11 times.

This makes me really angry. My medical union, the British Medical Association (BMA), is squandering public respect for physicians, mauling facts and pursuing Left-wing crusades without any regard for the expense to the health service.

Their insatiable needs for greater pay make my occupation, my long-lasting vocation, look tawdry, negative and . There are minutes when I nearly feel I could rip up my membership card in disappointment.

But it isn't just my union that is behaving so disgracefully. The genuine culprit is the Labour government, whose ineptitude in union negotiations given that coming to power has triggered a greedy free-for-all.

Unless these outrageous needs can be brought under control, I fear the NHS might be bankrupted.

The flashpoint this month is the BMA's demand for a pay boost much better than the 4 per cent that was executed on April 1 - a rise the union has actually dismissed as 'derisory'.

That 4 per cent is already above the rate of inflation, which is presently performing at 3.5 per cent. In fact, the deal offered to junior physicians (or 'resident doctors', as we're now expected to call them) provides considerably more, as they will get an extra ₤ 750 on top of the uplift, representing a typical increase in income of 5.4 percent.

And it begins top of an enormous 22 per cent typical increase provided by Health Secretary Wes Streeting last year in a desperate bid to stop the continuous strikes, after they demanded a 30 per cent pay rise.

Their insatiable demands for higher pay make my occupation, my lifelong vocation, look tawdry, negative and money-grubbing, states Dr Max Pemberton

Junior medical professional members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle in 2023

That craven capitulation by Labour didn't work, obviously - simply as surrender has actually shown not successful in mollifying the transportation unions, the teachers and every other militant collective. The BMA justifies its continued push for higher pay by claiming doctors are even worse off by about a quarter in real terms given that 2009.

The chairman of the BMA council, Professor Philip Banfield, sneers at the 4 per cent boost, saying it 'takes us in reverse, pushing pay repair even further into the distance,' and includes ominously: 'No one wants a return to scenes of doctors on picket lines, but unfortunately this looks much more most likely.'

What else did anybody anticipate? Unions are mandated to require as much cash for their members as they can get. They don't exist to be sensible or to accept compromise. And when Labour tried to buy them off, the unions noticed weak point. Prof Banfield understands there are more concessions to be won now, more pips to be squeezed.

But the NHS is not some personal, profit-making corporation, and this is not a battle between an exploited labor force and fat feline investors. Our beleaguered health service is moneyed by all of us - and it is on its knees.

This is something most doctors can recognise. Yet, over the past years or more, the union has been more worried with pursuing Left-wing agendas than acting in the best interest of its members.

For example, the BMA's leadership has refused to back the Cass Review, commissioned by the NHS as a report into gender identity services for children and young people.

The findings by Dr Hilary Cass, published in 2015, advised against rushing under-18s into gender shift treatment, such as adolescence blockers, that they may later on be sorry for.

It should not be the BMA's role to release into a debate on the interpretation of medical proof. That's what the Royal Colleges are for.

Sir Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting. This year's pay increase comes after resident physicians were awarded increases worth 22 per cent by Mr Streeting last year

The union has actually overstepped its bounds, and I'm seriously unhappy about paying my subscription to an organisation that makes political statements in my name.

These consist of require a ceasefire in Gaza, for instance, and criticism of China for human rights abuses - as if Hamas is going to return Israeli hostages or Beijing is going to stop persecuting the Uighur minority, just since a medical professional's union in the UK calls for it.

This is cheap virtue-signalling, done for no other reason than to make the BMA execs feel great about themselves.

I would appreciate them a lot more if they put their energy into fact-checking their own claims. The BMA is susceptible to bandying about numbers that do not withstand examination.

Some of their figures concerning salaries and inflation have been unmasked, utilizing information from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Since BMA members include doctors with competence in medical stats, it's an embarrassment to everyone.

Most of all, I detest them for wasting the public assistance for physicians that we earned at excellent personal cost throughout the pandemic.

It is sickening that the genuine respect in which the medical occupation was held just five years ago has been changed to a large degree by cynicism and even by displeasure.

Small marvel, then, that many junior physicians whine that their buddies with jobs in tech or banking are better off than they are.

Junior doctors demonstrating outside Downing Street in 2015 throughout strike action

Medicine ought to be beyond comparison, not simply among a raft of careers measured just by the financial benefits they bring.

This crisis has actually been brewing a long time, since before the 2010 union government.

Tony Blair's intro of university fees in 1998 has led straight to the circumstance today, where almost all my junior associates owe money by up to ₤ 100,000 - or perhaps more.

As a result, an increasing number of younger colleagues appear to see a career in medicine as chiefly transactional.

They argue that not just have they worked for their degree, but they've likewise bought and spent for it. And that if they can earn more money by quitting the NHS for the economic sector, and even by emigrating to practise abroad, for example in Australia, well, why should not they?

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