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Resident doctors in England started a six-day walkout on Tuesday (April 7) after rejecting an offer the government said would not get better, with the British Medical Association (BMA) saying it failed to reverse years of pay erosion and staffing pressures. - REUTERS

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00:09I'm a resident doctor. I've just finished night shifts over the weekend in an intensive care unit.
00:14I, when you compare me to a resident doctor doing the exact same job in the exact same ICU
00:18in 2008, I'm paid a fifth less than them. What we're asking is to restore our pay back to those
00:24levels at a time where the NHS was the envy of the world, where patients were not waiting for
00:29hours and hours in A&E. We want to get back to that level. We are not wanting that all
00:33in
00:34one go overnight. We are willing to look at that over multiple years. But what the government's
00:37currently proposing is real terms pay cuts over that period of time. And that's not something
00:41that we can stomach.
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