As the nation grapples with the strike action by medical doctors, after failed attempts by the government to avert it, the pain is that the strikers’ demands are very familiar.

It’s true that there may be anger with junior doctors in the short term. In the long term, however, the public is more likely to mistrust the competence of a government that allowed this union to descend into chaos, an organization beset by overworked, demoralized staff and threatened with brain drain.

For too long, the government has been playing a deaf ear to the grievances, hoping the problem would just disappear, but events that we are now seeing, show that doctors have lost patience and will no longer be pushed around.

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