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The government has pushed junior doctors to go on strike, a medic has said as staff launched a fresh round of action on Wednesday, 20 December.Source: PA
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00:10 Who does it talk to now? Richie Sousa!
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00:55 Well, we knew that there was going to be a deadline. We gave that deadline to the government at the beginning of negotiations.
01:00 And we told them, if a credible offer isn't produced by the deadline, we're going to have to call strike action.
01:06 So it's up to the government to come to the table with a credible offer, and they haven't.
01:09 So unfortunately we've had to call for strike action.
01:11 And no junior doctor wants to take strike action.
01:14 We go to medical school because we want to provide care and we want to make people feel better and give them a better quality of life.
01:20 And unfortunately the government have pushed us to the point where we're now going on strike.
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