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"Mrs Doyle has listed many of the technical points I wished to make about the conditions of junior working doctors.
It is ironic on the eve of the millennium that we are discussing the working conditions of doctors who are working in what could only be described as Dickensian situations. They have long working hours in difficult circumstances with little or no recognition in terms of government policy to the serious difficulties they are encountering. I hope very much that Parliament will clearly indicate their support for the re-introduction of the original time of four years for the inclusion of junior doctors in this directive.
It is amazing that in this day and age people with such huge responsibilities are working under such difficult circumstances. Mr President, would you get into a plane flown by a pilot who was exhausted and had worked more than 70 hours in a week? I would not, and I am sure no other colleague would either. I was a nurse, I dread to tell you how many years ago, but in those days the technical demands on both doctors and nurses were considerably less than they are now. Now doctors – and, of course, nurses as well, I must make a point for them too – are expected to be highly technologically proficient. We all know how dicey it becomes when we are exhausted doing something as simple as working on our computers. So how much more so dealing with technical issues. These young doctors, these junior doctors, are dealing with serious emergencies in a condition of extreme exhaustion. I hope very much, Mr President, and clearly from the debate so far, our colleagues also share this concern, that they will support all the amendments and I thank Mrs Smet very much for the amount of serious consideration she has given to this particular issue."@en1
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