And I may be about to show my ignorance (though as nobody else seems to worry about doing that I shall hold my head high)
Do/did not many of those students who later became private doctors not have their education paid for by the state? I.e. by us. (like so many others in those more sensible days). So shouldn't they give something back?
Mind you, I look at all those other wannabe capitalists whose education was paid for by the state who went on to rape and pillage in the City or wherever.
So, moving on, regarding an earlier point on the non usage of NHS resources by private doctors, didn't all those newly qualified medical students not become NHS Junior doctors and get their training free working for the NHS? And even being paid (maybe not a lot?) by the NHS Before they went off into the cushy selfish world of private practice?