BORED WITCHES!

“The Patient Pathway” comes from the same origin as other romantic notions such as “Hospital at Night,” “The Skills Escalator,” and “A Health Service of All the Talents.”

They are all “Blue Bottle Spells.”

Of course they are!

All of them a clever play upon words. Words that conceal there is a serious underlying problem. The problem of an aging population and future staffing of the Health Care system, not just in the UK but world wide.

Who else but a witch could be behind them.

But they are just Blue Bottle Spells.

Bored witches having fun.

Not to be taken seriously.

I suppose, though, these terms do lighten the load a bit and prevents a nation being too worried about what will happen when they become ill.

The words have very little substance, but they do say “There, there, don’t worry. Everything is going to be all right”

But should patients be given this false sense of security when there is no evidence whatsoever that “Everything is going to be all right?”

The Witch Doctor thinks not.

The Witch Doctor thinks the problem needs to be brought out into the open.

The Witch Doctor does not think the issue should be romanticised in this way.

It is presumably to do with votes.

The voting public may be blinkered by the jargon for now, but will see through it in the end.

Because the voting public and their immediate families are all patients or various shades of Health Care Workers.

We witches will have to stop playing about with Blue Bottle Spells.

We never thought the human race would take them so seriously.