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Medicine is one of the most stressful careers out there. Not only do they have to deal with the pressure of treating hundreds of patients daily, but also the stress of getting something wrong and litigation.

Now the idea of testing doctors every few years on clinical skills is being thrown about, with the least efficient doctors being struck off. But is this fair? No. Doctors have to firstly get into Medical School, (which is extremely difficult), then train for 6 years, followed by another 5 years working as a foundation doctor.

How is it fair that they should then have to repeatedly be re-tested for the rest of their career; at a cost of 15 million! The NHS already claims poverty, and 15 million, in my opinion, could be much better spent.

JK