Surgeons...spoilt rich kids, who cheat on their exams and are set up by their fathers??????????????????

I supose the seven years minimum hard slog and common 60 plus hour working weeks whilst in training, before they choose their specialism is easy peasy lemon squeezy?

I think they may get caught out somewhere along the line, were they freeloaders as is being suggested. There are always bad apples, but I think that surgeons probably have far fewer in their midst than the above comment warrants.

When the bin men are on strike , we do cope, albeit smellily. The same would not be the case if the surgeons downed scalpels.It is within our capability to get some of the refuse to a local dump ourselves, if need be. I would not want to perform brain surgery.