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A FLAWED CONTRACT

When 500 consultants make a correct diagnosis of the illness now sickening their professional life and then having made an accurate diagnosis, they isolate the exact source of trouble, those 500 could cure the illness.

Easier said than done you might imagine, but once the source of the trouble is isolated, the curative treatment is easier done than said.

The road to recovery would be 100% successful and far less arduous than grumbling and protesting and being ineffectual.

Our profession has fallen into the hands of administrators.

Successive governments have demonstrated that the very best administrations are merely merchants of chaos who specialise in cock-ups.

They cannot farm, they cannot fish, they cannot build motor cars, they cannot mine coal, they cannot build ships, they cannot forge steel but they can forge money, and they do.

But there is one classical example of administrators falling flat on their face and that is when they try to be medical professionals.

We need to ask why any government would be so foolish as to insinuate an administrator between a medical consultant and his patient.

It is really a matter of economics. There is a myth rampant in our present civilisation that economists hold the reigns. That survival in any sphere of action depends upon economics.

This myth is so widely held that all 500 consultants will make the assumption that their fate lies in the hands of economists and that economics is senior to medicine.

They could not be more wrong.

Take a look at the top of the pile in the USA, in France, in Germany, in Japan and anywhere else in the world and you notice more and more evidence of financial corruption.

It is easier to look abroad than to look at Westminster and Whitehall, but if you were able to see beyond the Official Secrets Acts you would see the father and mother of sleaze.

There is no place for ethics in economics. All is fair in love, war and business. Without ethics we have commercial warfare, in which there is no respect for human life.

Whilst we doctors, in our innocence, do not see that the NHS has been sucked into this commercial war, we shall continue to be ineffectual in preventing our patients becoming casualties in that war.

Therefore it is essential for us to recognise the fact of war, and then to see the cause of the war and then to remove the cause of the war.

Whichever way you look in this civilisation, you will see competition.

Instead of producers of goods and services co-operating to serve the consumer, we see producers using the consumer as cannon fodder in a war to obtain a bigger market share.

That is a stark statement of the existing scene.

If you have travelled this road with me thus far, you must now ask, how and why has fair trading turned into commercial warfare.

Now let your brains creak as I tell you that the war is a result of using debt as currency.

Having left behind barter as a means of exchange, we adopted money as a means of exchange.

But we failed to define the meaning of the word money and hoped to be able to use gold as a synonym.

That ploy served for quite a while but when it failed, we used credit as a synonym for money and then found ourselves using credit as a synonym for debt.

Instead of money being created and issued by the Crown or by the government on behalf of the Crown, we allowed bankers to create money by lending.

We gave private financial institutions carte blanche to forge money by seducing people into accepting credit as a loan of money.

This gave into the hands of the bankers absolute power through a dishonest practice.

With absolute power in the hands of dishonest people, ethics went out the window. We get flawed contracts.

The 500 consultants who become victims of that flawed contract do not have the faintest idea of the truth.

But let this flawed contract act as a wake up call and have 500 consultants demand of Government that it recovers unto itself the sole right to create and issue new money, and a new golden age will dawn.