24 July 2025, 20:47 | Updated: 24 July 2025, 22:05

By Dr Connor Cummings

I am a resident doctor and out of my group of friends at medical school, I am the last one standing.

I actively stand with you, my colleagues, as we pursue full pay restoration and sustainable working conditions.

Consistent polling suggests, however, that public support for strike action has plummeted.

Vociferous public condemnation of resident doctors by the likes of Jeremy Vine and Andrew Neil is, unfortunately, predictable.

However, when Polly Toynbee describes resident doctors as having “overreached” and James O’Brien calls resident doctors “wrong to the point of offensive”, the extent of the public support problem facing our pay restoration campaign becomes impossible to ignore.

As doctors, we need to be very careful to understand and respect the importance of the relationship between the perception of our profession and public trust in........

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