Eh, who
actually is the real enemy?
I’ve never
come across a workplace so divided by job title than a hospital, just at a time
when unity and mutual respect between work colleagues is so essential.
Snooty
Consultants treating Nurses with contempt, placing no value on their practical
experience.
Nurses
looking down on Care workers because they lack qualifications and do all the
unpleasant jobs.
Everybody
envying what Consultants and Doctors earn, unimpressed by their expertise and knowledge.
A general
dislike of Junior Doctors.
Nobody
having any regard for people doing scans, taking blood samples or working in a
lab.
These are
Victorian attitudes, handed down from generation to generation and they need to
go.
Why?
Because
patients suffer when a ward round results in a 30 second conversation and where
nobody ever does anything that they feel is someone elses job. That’s how a
patient can be left unwashed for 11 weeks on a ward.
Where no one
takes responsibility unless it’s written on a schedule and where nobody ever
interferes when someone else isn’t doing their job properly.
In a time of
cutbacks and wage freezes who suffers when work mates are divided against each
other?
In fact, virtually
no one in a hospital ever thinks of anyone else as a “workmate”.
A divided
workforce which doesn’t respect each other is easily defeated; and that means
cut back, privatised or outsourced.
Funnily
enough, the people you work with aren’t your enemies, any more than the
patients are.
When you
have worked out who your real enemy is, perhaps you can start treating each
other with respect at work.
Neil Harris
(a don’t
stop till you drop production)
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