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This is totally misleading. A Junior Doctor will only be earning £14 per hour if:-

1. He is in his first year of training
2. He only works 9-5
3. He has no specialist training
4. He does not work in London

All Junior Doctors progress and move up the pay scales. So-nodal point 1 is £28k-odd. Which might seem low, but they are essentially a Trainee. And that automatically goes up by £6,000 in year 2. Nodal point 5 is £56k-odd. Then progress to Consultant/GP etc, where pay is (again) considerably higher.

Then there is the unsocial hours payments, the Final Salary Pension scheme, etc.

Could you make a clear case for starting salaries to rise substantially? Yes. But that is not what the BMA are seeking. They demand a 35% across the board rise. So (for example) pay Bands for Junior Doctors giving everyone a pay rise of between £10k and £20k per annum.

And this "pay has been eroded" bit. It is true for everyone. All of us. Not just Doctors.

If Doctors value their pay higher than the safety of their patients, they are in the wrong job. This strike is not just going to impact at the edges. Hundreds of thousands will have extra pain. And people will die.

I'm not saying Doctors cannot take any industrial action. But this goes too far. Shame on them.