Letter: Testing patience

THE admiration the public hold for doctors is unlikely to extend to their attempt to cling on to a pension regime that lesser-paid workers accept is unsustainable.

They cannot remain immune to a reality to which most of their fellow public servants and all their private sector peers are resigned: working longer and contributing more.

After all, the sabre-rattling BMA made them the highest-paid professionals in the public service with consultants and GPs earning more than medics in almost any other country. It would surely be the mark of a caring professional graciously to accept the situation and it is utterly unbecoming of the doctors’ union to act like Bob Crow’s thuggish RMT.

(Dr) John Cameron

Howard Place

St Andrews