I’m proud to be called a junior doctor. Titles are the least of our problems | Rachel Clarke

If the chief medical officer wants to boost rock-bottom morale, instead of giving us a ‘modern name’, she should give us more doctors, more beds and more resources

Until Jeremy Hunt chose to weaponise the term, I didn’t give my status as a junior doctor a second’s thought. Sure, it was a bit of a misnomer. I’m the wrong side of 40 and a mother of two, after all. But to me, the doctor bit was all that mattered. After six years of study, I was, at last, a doctor – my privilege, joy, and source of pride and inspiration. Even better, I was an NHS doctor.

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