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- W2435792831 abstract "August. High summer and mid silly season. With parliament in recess, Britain's heavyweight political commentators have gone on holiday and the media have turned to trivia. Newspaper readers, grateful at first, soon tire of pap. They begin to long for autumn, when the journalists will sharpen their knives again.For medical politicians, however, autumn never comes. One of the delights of being on the General Medical Council or, I daresay, the BMA council is that press scrutiny of individual members is almost non-existent. The institutions themselves are subject to routine criticism, but the doctors who run them are largely ignored—or, worse, treated with respect. Even their presidents are spared the cartoonist's pen.I have never met Tony Blair and I glimpsed Gordon Brown only once, years ago in the students' union. But I know them as well as I know, say, Prince Charles or President Bush, because they are regularly dissected by well-informed writers. When they face important decisions, their options are discussed, the electorate is informed, and the politicians can gauge public opinion.The medical electorate, by contrast, relies on glossies produced by its official organisations, or on trade newspapers written by lay people. There is no medical Matthew Parris waspishly observing which medical quangoholics are pompous windbags, or Blair toadies, or Trappist monks, or barking mad. Or, maybe, sensible and constructive.And yet, at intervals, Britain's doctors—all 0.1 million of them—are sent a list of names, unknown or vaguely familiar, and asked to vote. Without feedback from the fourth estate, democracy is a farce. Some like it that way. Years ago, when the GMC discussed regional representation, a member told me, “We can't have this. Nobody who knows me would vote for me.” He was not joking, just stating a fact.Sadly, “Dr Parris” is pie in the sky. No reader would be willing to pay for a journal devoted to professional politics. And no medical writer would want the job. Parliamentary sketchwriters are already struggling to make Westminster's cloned legislators seem interesting. Medical politicians would be an impossible challenge.Dr Parris dot com? Perhaps the internet is the answer, but for me the words “heavyweight” and “web” are incompatible." @default.
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