Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ex University of Glasgow medic blames 'uneducated' people for Scotland's poor health record, so what are we paying him for?










Dear All

World exclusive, I don’t speak Japanese.

I never learned it, was never taught it and never had the opportunity.

So, is this my fault, the fault of my parents or the fault of the education system?

Dr. Harry Burns is a qualified medical doctor from the University of Glasgow currently Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.

Mr. Burns has stated that poor parenting may be partly to blame for Scotland’s appalling health record.

May be?

Hardly definitive is it, it begs the question why state a subjective opinion, either state a fact or don’t bother exercising your mouth.

Parenting skills aren’t taught, people muddle through, is there a course that Burns is aware of that teaches parents about improving health of their children?

Do Steven ‘bin laden’ Purcell and the Labour Council of shame run courses?

The question that springs immediately to mind is why Burns should seek to transfer blame on those who have no training or experience whatsoever.

The blame lies in education, it lies with those professionals that people meet at various stages of their lives.

So what makes a good parent?

I would suggest stability, education, employment and a sense of well being.

If you live in the Labour Party created gerrymandered ghettos of Glasgow, you don’t have life chances, education is poor, opportunities don’t exist and hope is abandoned.

That is the Labour Party legacy of Glasgow nurtured and generated over decades to try and keep Glasgow a Labour fiefdom.

While the Labour Party preaches aspiration, they practice denial.

So as Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, Burns should lay the blame in the appropriate place, those professionals who didn’t do their jobs properly.

The ones that muddled through, the ones that didn’t care and the ones who got their jobs through cronyism!

Dr Harry Burns, chief medical officer of Scotland is may be one of the reasons for Scotland’s poor health record.

But like others at his Alma Mater, he wants to shift the blame away from himself.

How every University of Glasgow of him!

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

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