MTAS, the Orwellian nightmare

At last a brilliant piece in the press that sums up MTAS very neatly:""Modernising Medical Careers" is a suitably Orwellian name for a Stalinist new system for training doctors in the National Health Service.The phrase is a perfect example of newspeak. To oppose a "modern" system is to be a conservative, if not a reactionary. Yet, like all systems of centralised planning,this one has proved