'Gardening leave' for surgeon who railed at Clegg and Cameron

[oldironside]

"It was a vintage piece of political theatre when a photocall by David Cameron and Nick Clegg at Guy's Hospital was disrupted last week by a disgruntled surgeon objecting to the poor compliance of the camera crew with hygiene regulations. A clip of the incident went viral on Youtube.

But it has ended badly for 57-year-old David Nunn, the orthopaedic surgeon blamed for startling the Prime Minister and his deputy, who has unexpectedly gone on leave, and for his NHS patients who now face longer waits to be seen by Mr Nunn's hard-pressed colleagues."

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gardening-leave-for-surgeon-who-railed-at-clegg-and-cameron-2301353.html

Absolutely pathetic. Whether or not Cameron's office put pressure on the trust to discipline him, it still makes the PM look like a petty, small minded tosser.

[non sociopath skin]

1. That's probably because he's a petty, small-minded tosser.

The Skin

[oldironside]

2. If he were any sort of a man...

... he would have had his office put pressure on to make sure the guy WASN'T disciplined.

To quote someone the Tories love...

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

In this case, their pathetic photo op took no account of the patients' welfare, but was merely meant to make them look like they give a shit about the health service. If that doesn't deserve criticism, I don't know what does. Wankers.