Trigger Warning – May Offend Female Police Officers. If you don’t like what you read, don’t criticise me—I suffer from ITCD (Incapable of Taking Criticism Disorder). If you do criticise me despite knowing about my disorder, then you have no respect.
I was chatting recently with a surgeon friend who was bemoaning the lowering of standards in the NHS. The medical students coming in are, in his words, “cognitively insubstantial.” Many are given extra time in exams because they would struggle to meet the required standard otherwise. It likely doesn’t matter all that much—robots will replace them in a few short years—but in the meantime, we might expect some extra time added to our hip replacement surgery. What’s another few hours when you’ve already waited five years?
