> Doctors in the U.K. are considering whether to strike over proposed changes in their contracts, and they are marching in London as part of the protest. > But

> Doctors in the U.K. are considering whether to strike over proposed changes in their contracts, and they are marching in London as part of the protest. > But when doctors strike, the scientific research shows that patients stop dying. My wife is a junior doctor in London and she was part of the strike. As a matter of fact, I've launched juniordoctorsstrike.co.uk as part of that movement in 2015 to support the cause. In the specific case of the UK, a junior doctor is anyone who is not a consultant, so the contract changes were applicable to not just new doctors (which is what most people would think when they hear junior) but really any doctor who didn't bother to become a consultant, even very very experienced doctors with many years of practice. In the UK senior doctors (consultants) were doing crazy overtime to cover for the (junior) doctors who were on strike, so effectively patients were being seen by the most senior staff for a period of time. In that regard I'm not surprised that if you throw an army of consultants for a very short and limited time at all your patients that patient outcomes might actually improve. It's needless to say that this crazy work amount for consultants is unsustainable though. Take every "statistic" which you haven't forged yourself with a grain of salt!