No Wonder Junior Doctors Are Striking | The Russell Howard Hour

In this compilation from The Russell Howard Hour and Russell Howard's Good News, we take a look at some of the awful things doctors have to put up with and why they need our support.
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[@ShaunStephens777]

He’s wife’s a doctor, so I can see why he’s so passionate about doctors getting better pay. They should be, instead of grubby politics

[@Matt_Mosley1983]

That's not passion, that's greed. Learn the difference.

[@okamiwolfie3290]

@@Matt_Mosley1983 that makes no sense

[@esseker6320]

​@@Matt_Mosley1983 What?.

[@sheriemirza6988]

​@@Matt_Mosley1983 I don't think anyone in lower tier jobs in any field are paid decent in UK. The median income is 30k, meaning half of us make less than that. Can anyone live in comfort without financial worry in that money? They will have education loans to pay off too. UK income and purchasing power is lower than all large European countries. Its not greed. Poor work conditions and financial problems lead to mentally n physically ill doctors. Would you like a compromised doc treating you? Or a compromised policeman dealing with you or a compromised pilot fly your flight?

[@Matt_Mosley1983]

@@sheriemirza6988 shut up, you're making my point for me. Almost all jobs are underpaid but it's only some of the BEST paid people getting attention. I work for minimum wage and I don't struggle because I'm not an idiot with money. As for the greed comment, he and his wife are RICH but want more. #Greed What's to under?

[@RomaInvicta202]

I did work in NHS (as a HCA) I can confirm that junior doctors do all the hard and shitty jobs (night and weekend shifts, Xmass etc) and they get paid less than delivery drivers - it's beyond scandalous (no disrespect to delivery drivers - I am one now, exactly because I get paid more) What is wrong with a country where dude that brings you pizza is paid more than the one saving your life? Please, don't vote for Tories

[@gemzf1]

Not just Tory's thought. I hate them, but the fact that Wales is predominantly labour, the Welsh senedd just gave themselves a payrise for doin fa, with no strikes needed. Takes the mick

[@mnirwin5112]

Somebody told me that the North American equivalent of what these doctors earn is ... $17 an hour. I'm a grocery store cashier in Canada -- a minimum-wage job. Minimum wage where I live? $16.55 an hour. So if that wage conversion is accurate, I make nearly as much money as a DOCTOR in the UK.

[@gemzf1]

@@mnirwin5112 omg, we don't even make that as cashier's. UK min wage now is £10-12ph. I was a support worker and my wage just tipped over £11ph with holiday and sick pay included in the hourly wage.

[@pseudonayme7717]

@@gemzf1 It's about the same. Canadian dollar is about 60p, so close to the same.

[@pseudonayme7717]

@@mnirwin5112 $17us. The US$ is worth 80p in the UK, the Canadian$ 60p.

[@JargonMadjin]

"Saving money, not lives" That line physically hurts, I don't understand how a government can underpay people that are literal heroes

[@daftdigital]

Because their heros are on yachts.

[@ShannonJacobs0]

How is the google profiting from one-liner sock puppets making comments? Plus more offensive ads! Maybe depoliticizing America's legal system would help? So: "A nonpartisan Justice may compel two recusals by junior partisan Justices." How about that idea?

[@Myfreetherapy]

@dani cali Wow. Talk about slave mentality. You really put the GREAT in Great Britain dani. Well done!

[@magdalena_dewinter]

@dani cali it was just the junior doctors you mullet

[@wouldntyouliketoknow9919]

My mum was sent home from the hospital after being accused of being a lair and a drain on the NHS after complaining about pain in her stomach, her bowel had died weeks earlier and that was what the pain was, she was told to leave the hospital or be escorted out, my mother's a proud woman so she left and suffered at home in bed with a dead bowel for two weeks before my sister ignored her pleas to not call an ambulance, she died hours later on a hospital bed, she bled to death in front of us from something that could have been treated, the NHS is protected by government money so we will not get justice, no one will take on NHS cases unless you are filthy rich and can afford to take the government to court,

[@michellebusby949]

My daughter is a junior doctor. She is in year 1 (of 2 years) foundation training. She has spent the previous 5 years at medical school paying over £100,000 for the privilege of studying medicine and completing numerous placements across the health service in lots of different specialities. Her long term goal is to specialise in either Emergency medicine or Obstetrics & Gynaecology. My son is a paramedic having qualified in August after studying paramedic science at University for 3 years. He has uni debts of around £55,000. Half that of his sisters. My son works full time for the NHS which is 37.5 hours a week. His starting basic salary is £27055. He receives enhancements to his salary when working "unsocial hours". For a weekday night shift he receives his basic rate (BR) + 30%, Saturday shift he receives BR +30%, weekend nights, Sundays and bank Holidays he gets BR+ 60%. Any overtime above 37.5 hours he receives BR+50%. If more than half of the shift is during unsocial hours he'll receive the enhancement for the whole shift. E.g. a Friday night shift commencing at 2000 until 0800 on Saturday will attract the whole 11 hour shift at BR+ 30% (1 hr is unpaid break). My daughter works full time for the NHS. She has to work 44 hours per week. Her basic salary is £28354. She receives her BR+ 30% for any night shift or weekend shift. She only gets the enhancement for the hours that fall within the unsocial period so a Friday night shift commencing at 2000-0800 on Saturday will attract +30% for 6 hours of the shift (1 hr unpaid break). She rarely gets a break as there isn't time to have a break. She always finishes her shifts very late and does not receive any extra for those hours. My son's take home pay has been more than double that of my daughter's. She would love to get her own place but she simply cannot afford to so has moved back home with me. It is ludicrous 😢

[@monroerobbins7551]

Bloody hell, I agree 100%. Doctors and nurses deserve good wages, and not to be worked to death. If they don’t get the rest they need, it could risk patients’ lives! Like, there’s a reason why it’s not recommended that you drive while sleep deprived.

[@JejuIju]

They work 40 hoursaweek mate. and a doctor is on 70k a year A junior doctor's first day he's on 30k/year. They rake it in.

[@catferreira5598]

​@@JejuIju They work at least 48 hours per week, not 40. And a junior doctor is paid nowhere near that, what have you been reading? Currently, those starting out as doctors in England take home a basic pay of £29,384. This moves up to £34,012 in year two, and £40,257 in year three when they start to specialise. These people have over 60K in university debt! They need to be able to pay that off or they'll - rightly - leave for higher paying positions! It's market forces, supply and demand. Teachers in the same position. Average working week of 45/50 hours, paid for 35/37 depending on contract. 40K student debt. If they're paid more elsewhere, they leave. And that's what's been happening. If it were that cushy, all the professions currently striking would be full to bursting. Instead, there are chronic shortages in all the sectors - these people don't disappear, they go where they're paid properly.

[@nickryan3417]

@@JejuIju Are you a Tory Bot or a moron that repeats the lies and hatred from the government and Daily Mail/Express?

[@alfsmith4936]

​@@JejuIju I'm in hospital right now and a nurse was saying the junior doctors earn less than her earlier. I doubt they'll gett the 35% rise but their wages have gone down 35% in real terms since David Cameron was P.M. If I had recently qualified, I'd be going for one of the many better paid jobs on offer in Europe. Thank god not everyone's as selfish as me!

[@Andyreally]

@@JejuIju raking it in? Are you a dimwit?

[@aliceinshadowrealm7155]

My family and myself have had many potentially life threatening illnesses. If it wasn’t for the NHS we’d be bankrupt and possibly dead. Words cannot express how grateful we are for their work

[@JimmothyGibbons]

natural selection doesnt exist in the human species anymore.

[@nissan300zxtt9]

You do realise that all these strikes and bitching about pay is part of the plan to privitise the NHS dont you ? They are paid more than enough and if they really cared about saving lives etc , they wouldnt be striking and bitching about wages . These strikes are all part of the plan to privitise the NHS so it ends up like health care in the US .

[@recall2880]

Their

[@B_Bodziak]

@@recall2880 Hope you feel better.

[@stevenredpath9332]

I am in a group chat where the bulk of people are US citizens. A Canadian asked what happens if they get a major medical condition. Line after line of die, go break and die, die, die,die. It was heartbreaking.

[@josiahscurlock]

God bless, Russell. This really cannot be said enough. History will judge us harshly, and rightly so, if we don't start treating our doctors better fairly rapidly. (When my Dad was dying I remember watching the compassion and skill with which the hospital staff changed his bedding without hurting him, and in that moment the fact that MPs make more money than them infuriated me beyond words.)

[@kopite1948]

I must be a lunatic applying for medical school then, looking at the current state of things it'd be better if i got rejected😮‍💨

[@FA9082]

Russell is completely biased, obviously he thinks his viewers are too stupid to know what moral hazard is. The NHS pulling toys out of vaginas and WW2 shells out of anuses for free is not a testament to how great it it is, its actually testament to how inefficient and wasteful it is. 🤦 People do these stupid things bc they know they can just go to a hospital and get it fixed for free. We need to privatize the NHS

[@alfsmith4936]

​@@kopite1948 It's a hard slog but it's worth it eventually.

[@Badbhoys]

@@kopite1948 yup the reds ❤️

[@shellyboob4630]

I wish my fella had as nice a experience with his mum, when his mum was dieing, it was horrible.😢

[@tman5634]

Recently, I got chatting with a Senior Dr while sat on neighbouring tables in a restaurant. He was very passionate in being furious about the train wreck (his words) the Tories are doing to the NHS. I was shocked at how frustrated he was in his outspoken speech. I felt for him, other Dr's & all NHS workers.

[@custossecretus5737]

It’s not just the Tories though, the NHS is run by business managers putting money before the patient.

[@jonnewman6332]

The NHS has saved my life twice in the last year. Heroes. Both times I went into anaphylactic shock and the ambulance was with me in less than 5mins. Adrenaline in the ambulance, then resus and intensive care and 4no. separate drips hooked up. Btw, no cause has been identified, despite loads of tests, so I was issued with epipens at home and signed up to the 999 text message service.

[@Amy-ff9lw]

Please ignore if this isn't helpful, but you/your doctors may want to look into/consider MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome). People with MCAS can have repeated anaphylaxis without a known cause. Please understand I'm not trying to say that you have MCAS, just it's a less well known condition and it may be worth checking in case.

[@jonnewman6332]

@@Amy-ff9lw Thank you Amy. MCAS hasn't been mentioned and I'd never heard of it before. Obviously, I've googled it now. The triggers seem relevant in my case, but also multicausal. I'll speak to my GP. Just to add. These episodes have been the most terrifying moments in my life. Second time, waking up at 2am, throat and neck like a balloon, gasping for breath and barely able to talk. Sat on the doorstep unable to breath when the ambulance promptly arrived and put on a respirator. Without our NHS I'd have died, twice. And all without a fee. We should be so proud of this system and properly reward those who do a job I simply couldn't do. What they go through, see and endure every shift would leave me a wreck. Thank you to all the people of the NHS, your pay should reflect your value.

[@Amy-ff9lw]

@@jonnewman6332 I'm so sorry you've had to go through that. I hope someday you can find your triggers and be able to avoid them so you don't have to go through it again. The NHS obviously isn't perfect but it is so important and 1000x better than the US's "system". They absolutely need better pay for the literally life saving work they do!

[@alisondark8183]

All the best to you and hopefully your trigger will be discovered soon 🤞🏻

[@SidewalkCitizenLA]

I think that politicians' salary should be voted on when they get elected, so then they can't just pay themselves whatever they want.

[@Emanon...]

Contrary to popular belief, it's a very good thing to have well paid MPs. It's a safeguard against corruption. What we didn't factor in was the greedy, reckless people that would be voted in... The UK needs electoral reform before anything else can be achieved.

[@timetide5961]

If that were the case they would all be Signing on ! x

[@2Treesandahorse]

Rule number 1. If you 'want to be an mp' it should exclude you from that job. Rule 2. They get average wage but for everything they promise to do they get a bonus. (Not a boner boris) Rule 3. No expenses on tax payers money. If they represent 'the people' then they don't take their money for other things, like the f#@ken roads which are falling apart.

[@julieholdcroftbetty8520]

​@@Emanon...a safeguard against corruption 😂😂😂😂omg sooo delusional

[@allothernamesbutthis]

@@Emanon... are duck moats not corruption?

[@zarakikon6352]

Medical personnel definitely deserves good pay for the hard work they do. Special mention to the abuse they get from patients and/or their family. This also includes Ambulance personnel.

[@alfsmith4936]

I'm in hospital right now and the amount of crap the nurses put up with is unbelievable. They know it's usually the drugs somebody's on talking, or a stressed family member thinking their spouse/child/parent deserves special treatment and they usually apologise afterwards but the staff just stay polite, say "thank you" and carry on doing their best to make everyone comfortable.. Then there's the literal crap they have to clean up plus spew, blood, etc and they are nothing but lovely about it. I couldn't do their job for a million pounds a year. Thank god they will for much less.

[@annawalsh8880]

My dad wouldn't have survived cancer and two heart attacks if it wasn't for the NHS. So screw sunak and hunt cos they don't save lives!

[@JejuIju]

Cant wait for starmer to privatise it, might make you realise ''muh tory'' ''muh labour'' are one and the same.

[@annawalsh8880]

@@JejuIju can't wait till you need the NHS cos of the tories there won't b one. We all suffer cos people like you don't respect or value the NHS.

[@rollosinternet1853]

Shocking how little junior doctors' salary has improved compared to MP's since Hunt's days in the NHS. Well done Russell for bringing real social issues to your shows. We can laugh, but you make them obvious and hopefully people will remember them when they vote. Now careful not to send the postal vote to the Tories! Please remind people to send it to their Councils.

[@DaveL2033]

Russel needs his own sitcom! 😂

[@schindlerteejay94]

On Netflix

[@ripdbtpoo1441]

He's a little BUSY!

[@thexalon]

The UK Tories look at the nightmare in America's health exploitation system and think "We should get more of that".

[@SamuelBlack84]

Exploitation is what brings success, not caring for the feelings of others

[@vivburgess4300]

I love this man!! Absolutely right about the NHS - and we are letting the Tories sell it off and demonise the staff while they do it. We should all be out on the street to protect it.

[@daftdigital]

Too many gammon brought up on Murdoch's rags. The problem is people are really really stupid and that will not change anytime soon. Country is finished.

[@annienmouse9767]

I wholeheartedly agree. The Tories are already privatising the NHS by stealth, dental care, eye care (optical, not surgery, yet!), hearing aids and ear syringing. They are using private hospitals for some routine surgery as great expense to the NHS. Patients aren’t paying …….. yet! In the meantime patients are telling each other how wonderful it is instead of questioning why this is happening. It’s getting patients used to a what appears to be a superior service for when they sell everything off to the Americans. Everything will then go downhill. Private insurers love routine surgery, it has a beginning, a middle and an end. Diabetes doesn’t, Parkinson’s doesn’t, asthma doesn’t, arthritis doesn’t and insurers hate that, having to pay out until the patient dies! Wake up Britain and fight to save the jewel in our welfare crown!

[@vivburgess4300]

@@annienmouse9767 PM on Radio 4 yesterday had an interview with a private healthcare GP who extolled the virtues of no waiting, extra time with patients, blah blah blah with no real push back from the interviewer. They are normalising private healthcare and it's working. It makes me infuriated at the stupidity of the public.

[@annienmouse9767]

@@vivburgess4300 With you all the way Viv. How do we get the rest of the country to care. How many people do you know who have gone privately because they are so worried about their condition and they can’t wait for many months for an NHS appointment? Playing right into the government’s hands. Contrary to popular belief the “private” Consultant you see is not independent and will be working many more hours within the NHS. (Granted there will be more totally private specialists in big cities where there are more private hospitals but overall they are small in number …. as yet)

[@vivburgess4300]

@@annienmouse9767 people have forgotten how the NHS is supposed to work thanks to the Tories.

[@dark67titan99]

Hunt is trying to introduce a thing that’ll take us average people 400 years to use

[@thegrumblesquad4949]

the midwives saved my life when i had our son, also a doctor fixed my wounds, i lost 4 pints of blood, they were amazing, they even came to see me on the ward the next day, DOCTORS YOU ARE AMAZING XX

[@mre1841]

I cant speak for everyone, but i would happily pay more national insurance if it would genuinly go to our fantastic nurses and junior doctors that keep our nhs as amazing as it is. They deserve every penny.

[@mre1841]

Apologies, you'll have to forgive me for being a little naive on any kind of politics, I thought our ni contributions is what pays for the NHS, I guess every day is a school day.

[@rl3799]

@@mre1841 well you are partly correct. It was originally introduced to pay for the NHS and for social benefits and pensions. At one stage it was "ring-fenced" for these things but now it is more just part of the pot that tax feeds into as well. So I should apologise as you were definitely partly correct. The big difference is that it can be used for pretty much anything the government decides. I believe that nowadays about 20% of NI contributions go towards the NHS.

[@fish5645]

@@mre1841 You heart was in the right place, sadly our government doesn't have a heart or a brain between them.

[@taffyterrier]

They are overpaid.

[@taffyterrier]

@@Steves_fish doctors are not very educated or hardworking.

[@kcj452]

Shared:"Over the last few weeks I’ve required some home/self maintenance - garden/fence work £160 (1.5hrs) = £106.66ph, plumber £75 (15 mins including wee break) = £300ph, financial consultant £171 (30 mins) = £342ph, locksmith £65 fee including an hour of labour (worked for 20 mins), facial £41.50 (30mins) = £83ph, carpet cleaner £100 (85mins) = £70.58ph - no-wonder junior drs, nurses, mid-wives and teachers are striking!"

[@oldlady2704]

2 paramedics, an ambulance, excellent nursing care, good doctors...all free, over the xmas holiday, busy saving lives....including mine and not a moan or a whinge from any of them.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Not all medical professionals are good, kind people. I've met many an arrogant and uncaring nurse and doctor

[@noramartin96]

It's not free we pay in to the NHS 'Insurance' every day.

[@reece3163]

I’d call this whinging.

[@alexcooper6953]

They do moan. Just not infront of patients. But i agree its a fantastic service being free.

[@sabi2557]

@@noramartin96 you know what they mean don't be dense

[@MadDragon75]

Howard is awesome! I admire his sense of humor.

[@walterppk1989]

as a parent of a 2 year old, I couldnt stop laughing at that last bit

[@nickistuart1565]

When I qualified as a nurse, I was on lower pay than trainee police officers. I was busting my ass in A & E while ordinary people were learning to become police. When I was training to save lives, I had £400 per month to buy £30 textbooks, pay for transport to university and clinical rotations where I was working 14 hour shifts!!

[@jacquelinegarvin]

He a legend. He Good for mental health.

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* He's * ...twice.

[@thestevenjaywaymusic7775]

The last one was brilliant, especially the last line. Sums up the world today

[@alisattar3635]

Yesss Russel my boy. Thanks for covering these issues. The media is too busy demonising us

[@lizfuller400]

Love you Russell. You can speak out and simply state the truth plus make people laugh. The more we laugh and ridicule the Tories the better. They are monsters.

[@Borboleta1212]

I agree with every point made in this video. I had absolutely no idea junior doctors were paid so little in relation to what they do! How can their work be so trivialised?! There should definitely be a cap on how much politicians and footballers are allowed to earn also

[@vegitossj2011]

I'm an A&E doctor working across 3 different trusts. You hit the nail on the head mate!

[@chojin6136]

I can just imagine the conversation the doctor that removed the bomb had later on. Doctor: "I had a patient come in with a WWII bomb shoved up their arse" Conservative relative: "rectum, dear, rectum. Doctor: "wrecked them? I'm surprised that it didn't blow him to bloody pieces"

[@chaosoma5296]

Doctors in Ukraine also always been earning the least money. Ridiculous salaries like £70 a month. With our prices I'd say it's a quite similar situation. After moving to the UK I was amazed how wonderful NHS is, and it's super sad that they earn so little for so much they do. Especially compared to other people! Having health issues, I am super grateful how much these people do for me FOR FREE.

[@piemash8628]

A tory with a toy dinosaur up their ringpiece , they'll enjoy that allegedly. 😂

[@catherinegallagher1101]

Exactly people saving life’s and losing there life to take care of patients .they all deserve more pay they work so many hours and constant ❤

[@blackheart9116]

you are hilarious. keep up the good work and keep giving MPs what they deserve. I have epilepsy and have been known to be aggressive to people helping me but I'm not aware of it and that might be some of the reasons ambulance drivers get attacked, that and people who are drunk and on drugs.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I should have gone into politics. Exploiting others for your own benefit

[@dineshapunchihewa1228]

A big thank you from a doctor who worked for NHS

[@terrijames4909]

My toddler doesn’t sit still whilst he eats. He takes a bite runs around. The room, comes back for another bite does the same thing 😂

[@ruthe6017]

As a junior doctor on strike now, and at the marches in 2016, I can confirm that junior doctors are screaming that enough is enough. It just isn't worth it when you consider that we risk prison for less money than a lot of our pizza delivery drivers do.

[@darrenwilliams7741]

What level Foundation grade are you at?

[@ruthe6017]

@@darrenwilliams7741 lol F8, working as a registrar, all the way up to £19/hr ( for the hours I get paid and before tax, NI, student loan, pension, exams, courses and conferences etc).

[@darrenwilliams7741]

@@ruthe6017so you was on 25k year 1 foundation period back in 2016 and now 2023 you must be on CT2 or CT3 pay grade level? My brother started around 2015 he's CT3 or ST3 nodle point 4 hes now on 50k or so a year.

[@ruthe6017]

@@darrenwilliams7741 depends on various factors including rota pattern etc that's why I put the hourly rate from my payslip of £19/h for the hours that I do get paid. Your brother like me probably has no permanent contract, and like me he probably has a huge amount of out of pocket expenses and a lot of hours at home chasing results and calling patients well after I stop getting paid. Just not worth it is it! Before medical school I worked in a pub and was a supervisor. Last summer I met up with friends from that job and they were mostly home owners, mostly debt free apart from mortgage and mostly doing fairly well in themselves. My mistake was going to medical school.

[@darrenwilliams7741]

@@ruthe6017 No he's not calling patients after work and has paid off his 33k student loan and he has his own home with his family,he has contract as he never took fixed term contract because it would not of helped him if going to get a mortgage as lenders want to see steady job and income being on fixed contract would let him work in more hospitals to get even more experience but would then make it hard for him to get his mortgage. He doesn't regret med school at all as he would be lot worse off with no degree or education or be in a position he is in now. Only thing is the hours he works but he's on lot off money and to be honest I work long and unsociable Hours working 3shift patterns and i get 29k before tax,Ni, pension what he was basically getting in his 2nd year foundation back in 2015. So what level are you at as you still have not said and what are your hours.

[@scottwilson6467]

The toddler eating is possibly the funniest skit i have seen from Russel Howard ever haha ! 😂😂😂

[@sy2see]

You mean Russell Howard?

[@scottwilson6467]

@@sy2see Haha yes dude , i was watching Russel Brand video before this one as it happens - Now rectified thanks !

[@bendordoy4815]

A few days ago I saw the pertemps salary health add and delivery drivers get an average of £33k per year but anyone with a clean driving license can become a delivery driver every single one is self employed so they are in the opposite boat to NHS staff who are underpaid and overworked. The worst thing is when the Royal mail staff go on strike for more money or better working conditions and they get it every single time but not the doctors and nurses who actually diverse a massive pay rise.

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

Oh my stars that last sketch was hilarious!! As someone who has to use a wheelchair when I'm out, I did wonder about the recipients of the use the stairs texts🙄 As for the fruit and veg text, my late mum was vegetarian, she was overweight but ate extremely well and healthily and it never made an ounce of difference to her weight. I'm overweight but have muscle wastage so my arms look like sticks. There's so many more factors at work in weight gain and loss 😔

[@mysticgaming2455]

I love the NHS they're working very hard including the COVID-19 they deserve all the love that they deserve ❤

[@jimmorris4425]

Our lives depend on these WONDERFUL PEOPLE ❤,

[@lauradewhurst2860]

This is great shining a light on MD abuse!! Good for you.

[@mariamanuelgouveia6351]

He 's on the rise as a new performer of humour . Thanks for your contribution to my lessons as EFL in Portugal, in the Algarve . Love it. ❤Figers crossed. Wishing him an uprising career.

[@StephenMatrese]

9:40 I've woken up in surgery, no one believed me, even the surgeon, who I really like to this day, until I told him EXACTLY what they were talking about and that he told the resident they could close. I'm allergic to DermaBond (skin glue) than they normally use, so they needed to use stitching. It needs to be a lot of small stitching because of my EDS. To make matters worse (and more painful, the skin was tight). I don't respond to lidocaine (sometimes incorrectly called Novocaine), articaine, etc. Waking up after brain cancer surgery was worse, that's about it.

[@nixi-bixi]

Hello fellow zebra, i also have similar issues with anaesthesia 😑

[@SamuelBlack84]

I once read about a patient who woke up during surgery and felt every incision and every movement inside his body that caused pain He wound up taking his own life

[@vylbird8014]

I used to think I had a reduced reaction to lidocaine. But turned out my old dentist just sucked at using it properly.

[@williamrandall5050]

Great stuff Russell, we must defend and fight for the NHS

[@AhmerBashir]

Thank you Russell ❤ I am not a doctor but I love the NHS

[@caffeinatedzebra7632]

Had some of the best care ever as a teen from the paediatric department at my local hospital however after seeing both an NHS physio and a private physio (through the NHS) it was clear the difference in care (the nhs physios wernt bad it was just that they didn’t have the same time given towards continued learning and personalised care due to being so understaffed. The private physios had payed time dedicated to learning)

[@cristinaperrica1985]

I love this man/guy!!! You make me laugh a lot!!🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@glintrhmj]

I only wish it was as good as NHS over here in Canada 🇨🇦 please Brit’s take care of your medical staff

[@taffyterrier]

Medical staff don’t take care of Brits.

[@bp5276]

Love him…. Truly..😊

[@tehf00n]

I was born dead. For 15 minutes, from the time it took to get from one small town hospital to a major hospital, I was dead and they tried to revive me. I am alive because of the NHS. My son was premature. He would have died without an incubator and 24/7 monitoring by machines and humans. He is alive because of the NHS. I have had 5 children, who are properly raised and brilliant minds, who would not be alive without the NHS. It is my second heart.

[@camerondowning7523]

30k on average for a junior doctor isn't that bad tbf considering they are only a junior and not fully qualified. 5% pay rise offer is more than reasonable

[@cameronjeaneska6341]

I don't get it, why did they train for the years it took to get the job if they aren't happy with the pay? Surely choose a different profession to persue if you wanted more pay? Mental

[@Niki-mp8qe]

I could live quite comfortably on that

[@artspooner]

This skit is actually from the 2016 strike when Hunt (then health secretary) was trying to impose a really shitty contract for junior doctors.

[@taffyterrier]

The contract was perfectly fair.

[@user-ut3uo7lp7r]

Greetings from Gardner Massachusetts, USA!!! Ever since I found your channel I cannot stop watching all the crazy shit that is going on in the UK. You are quite possibly the funniest effing comedian I have ever watched and I have watched a bunch of comedians from all over the world and none of them can hold the candle to you!!!

[@Aria4u]

The last sketch 😂 had me! Awesome work 👏

[@AuroraNightSky570]

I never understood the clap for nurses, and I will never understand underpaying NHS heroes who work tirelessly around the clock to save lives every day.

[@taffyterrier]

Not heroes - Zeroes

[@annawalsh8880]

We wouldn't have survived covid if it wasn't for doctors. They need pay rise!

[@Gretny]

100%

[@licensetodrive9930]

Fucking too right. Take all the bonuses from the politicians and give them to all the people who work under the NHS.

[@jasperlyons19]

Agreed. They risked their lives and some lost them in the process but you know let's take them for granted

[@glazierblue573]

Now let's not go crazy. No one is perfect. The NHS has made some pretty catastrophic mistakes. ... They saved Boris's life 🙄

[@nothereandthereanywhere]

I think Covid was mostly about nurses. But they are underpaid as well...

[@jomammahbeetch8236]

This made me chuckle.

[@georgiawilby25]

I’ve never worked somewhere so disorganised and stressful in my life. My doctor has had to sign me off work with stress and anxiety. The staff turn over is incredibly high.

[@paul55767]

Then you must nover have worked anywhere else. Can't be too bad when your getting paid for being off with 'stress and anxiety'

[@georgiawilby25]

@@paul55767 I’ve been working full time since I was 16 (9 years). And have work in a few different places. Sick pay doesn’t even cover my rent so yeah really nice. Just keep your mouth shut on things you know nothing about

[@paul55767]

@@georgiawilby25 No need to be so rude young lady. If sick pay doesn't cover your rent then maybe your living beyond your means? Your literally getting free money for nothing while the tax payer (who pays your sit at home wages) doesn't get a dime if he/she is off with stress and anxiety in the private sector. If you want to see real high turnover get a factory job but I fear your too much of a lotus eater to dare step foot in a hard working environment

[@1986Dams]

The eating like a toddler bit killed me.

[@alexgosling5550]

This was amazing!

[@lovelyskull3483]

Well done Russell.

[@MoistlyMoist]

adolf Shitler... good one Russy ol boy

[@Gaskinmoo79]

Wait, junior doctors only get 22K. That's stupid, I assumed they were on around 30K and still supporting their strikes. They are such an important part of the NHS.

[@darrenwilliams7741]

They are not on 22k average is at least 25k or so and that is Foundation years only as it's based on grade level nodal point1 25k first year or so training then nodal point2 33k nodal point3 39k nodal point4 50k nodal point5 57k that's about the highest level then they finish junior doctor level.

[@taffyterrier]

Minimum £35k

[@mekabara]

The end is brilliant

[@emmafreeman7740]

Thanks Russell

[@mnirwin5112]

The other thing that will put patients at risk is when who-knows-how-many of them decide find other lines of work, or decide to move OUT of the UK to get better working conditions. The NHS is already starting a downward spiral; this kind of attitude on the part of the government will accelerate that downward spiral to Warp 10.

[@mnirwin5112]

10:09 - wouldn't you have loved to be an extra in this scene?? 🤣

[@sy2see]

I love it how Russell tells it how it is. Need the Tories out.

[@bencross3759]

Nhs saved my life couple of years ago!

[@emilymoir6792]

Also at the hospitals in London the come around with free biscuits and hot tea every couple of hours. The menus always have jacket potato, and roast chicken dinner. The food is great.

[@richardsmith2627]

The NHS needs protection in law

[@kcj452]

Wish he would do something like this to support nurses.

[@mbshaw1]

Any settlement with the Junior Doctors should include a change in their job title to "Medical Apprentice With Extremely Beneficial Future".

[@kerrynicholls6683]

A paramedic was stabbed to death yesterday, in Australia 🇦🇺 R.I.P and love ❤️ to his family and friends.

[@eisenbau]

How is the NHS free? It's only 'free' at point of use. It's funded via taxes and NI. It's also not unique, many developed countries have a public healthcare system, that operates way more efficiently and effectively than the NHS, with far more emphasis and proactive preventative treatment. We should stop patting ourselves on the back comparing it with the US system and look at the German and French systems for a start.

[@Kikiconsilience]

Finally someone said it!

[@charliemckeown7521]

Your hilarious you always make me laugh, I agree people need to do more to help our NHS take politicians wage's away and put it in the NHS, in my opinion those who want to be politicians should work for minimum wage.

[@ThatCoalSoul]

* You're * * NHS, *

[@hainsey123]

💯 behind Russell

[@ScotChef]

Dont usually like your stuff but this im with you all the way.✊

[@oliversherman2414]

Doctors deserve way more praise than they get

[@taffyterrier]

They deserve less.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@taffyterrier no

[@taffyterrier]

@@oliversherman2414 Doctors deserve no praise.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@taffyterrier did you even watch the video?

[@yerfriendlyneighborhoodsco3337]

@@oliversherman2414 mans just either a troll or an edgy prick.

[@charlottedrew9714]

His wife is a doctor so he understands it from that perspective but also the publics side

[@RachyRooM]

The actors in the restaurant scene are great 👍 😅

[@joele23]

Loved it! I miss your humour!!

[@michaelcary7971]

But it isn’t free, you pay thousands towards the NHS in taxes. What if you don’t even use the NHS?

[@Kikiconsilience]

Have you been in born in hospital? Do you have children? What about elderly parents? Everyone will use NHS at some point in life.

[@cambs0181]

You are going to live until say 90 and never use the NHS? I don't think that would be likely.

[@kellyreilly-robinson2130]

You should be King 😂😂😂😂 just kidding

[@gabeangel8104]

My partner is has been in recovery for the last few years from severe anorexia and bulimia but those disordered thoughts and habits around eating can still flare up for her in response to certain triggers. She has also got a bit over weight though due to having developed a disability and chronic illness that makes her largely bed bound at the moment and also being on multiple medications that have weight gain as a side effect. It's really hard for her to resist falling back into disordered eating in response to this. All this is clearly in her medical records, yet last year she had to move to a new GP and this guy would dismiss any issue she ever went to him with and spend the appointment harping on about her needing to loose weight. This didn't only happen over issues that could be effected by weight but even things like ear infections etc. After one appointment he even sent out a letter with a flyer about exercise classes. This was after having just seen her needing support from a carer to leave the house and struggling to even sit in a wheelchair! (To be clear, these were not exercise for people with disabilities but just a normal local exercise class). She came home sobbing and it took days after that for myself and our carers to talk her down from a spiral of depression and eating disordered thinking. She does want to loose weight but a helpful approach would be for a doctor to discuss it sensitivity with her, taking into account her history and the difficulties she currently has with her health, and offer help from a dietitian and some physiotherapy or something to help her find simple exercises she would be capable of doing with her disability. Also for a doctor to actually look into her back issues, which is part (not the only condition that is disabling her, but part of it) of what is keeping her from being a little more mobile, as she has asked repeatedly and never been referred anywhere for it except for a physio who concluded that anything they could do was actually making her pain worse! The approach of berating her, neglecting her actual medical needs, and giving the impression that the only way for her to loose weight is things that are inappropriate and impossible for her to achieve, is a counter productive way to address her weight and also just plain cruel to be honest. She has since changed to a different go surgery, but is so afraid of being treated the same way again that she puts off even making appointments for issues that seriously need treatment, let alone asking for any help with controling her weight, and I think a lot of over weight people feel similar from what I've heard

[@DownPro1]

This is from the previous 2016 strikes, an older video but clearly still relevant

[@DTL9164]

#Paythenurses

[@zali13]

Because the NHS is so good, the Tories and their billionaire buddies have to privatise it. Bring you guys down to the level of the United States.

[@danielrayner7681]

😂 brilliant Russell

[@Derrek84]

Howcome nobody understands this in Poland. Doctors and nurses do 48-72h shifts or even longer to keep this sinking ship we call healthcare afloat and people still complain that we're slacking off and we should work more!

[@1Kent]

Beware governments don't want to take care of the people who pay the bills.

[@andywilliams7323]

The NHS is not free. It costs each person an average of just over £3000 in tax per year.

[@jimbo_1312]

And yet it's free at the point of entry, which is kinda the point.

[@vylbird8014]

Hmm... compare that to the average cost for health insurance in the US, and doing the currency conversion, it's actually really good value. We could afford to spend more.

[@andywilliams7323]

@@vylbird8014 Agreed. I've got no issue with the annual cost. (Although it's more expensive than other European nations with better healthcare systems, such as Germany, the Netherlands, France). Just pointing out that Russell is incorrect to say that it is all for free.

[@andywilliams7323]

@@jimbo_1312 But that's not what Rusell said. Russell said all for free, which is not strictly accurate.

[@lionfleck]

the end of the end was the best laugh

[@plumduff3303]

Brilliant

[@Remake5182]

THIS SOUNDS OLD

[@susangamble6038]

It is. *unt hasn't been Health Secretary for years. This is from probably 2015.

[@Remake5182]

@@susangamble6038 Oh okay, I was generally talking about the episode because it felt very familiar to me.

[@susangamble6038]

@Zorluxism and you were right! But it is from several years ago. I think the Russell Howard videos are uploaded from his Sky TV show - and the last series finished weeks ago. So, too late to focus on the current situation of striking doctors etc. It's relevent in a way, but is talking about a completely different thing in respect of the NHS.

[@Remake5182]

@@susangamble6038 oh ok

[@3506Dodge]

Surely, the point is protecting the health care of Britons, not the particular bureaucratic regime of the NHS>

[@daftdigital]

Gammon rhetoric, Rothermere or Murdoch?

[@DanielCardei]

i feel on the floor at the end hahahaha

[@ginabeena6757]

British citizens PLEASE do not privatize your health care! As an American with very expensive health insurance, I assure you we have mix ups, long wait times, and very little personal attention. Don't buy the hype!

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

I love Russell's politics...but just wish he could deliver his humour without always, on every show, talking about wanking and genitalia. It's not that I'm a squeamish prude--it's just that it's so unnecessary and gratuitous. The working class are far more intelligent than he gives them credit for.

[@noramartin96]

Exactly! Get's tiresome.