Observations from a hospital waiting room

Happy new year - how was it for you? Good, I hope. Mine was spent in my local A&E, which tells you m...

Happy new year - how was it for you? Good, I hope. Mine was spent in my local A&E, which tells you much about the economy at the moment. The one thing you notice is that while the Government might claim queues are going down - they're not. You still wait at least four hours, which is no worse or better than it was under other governments. But hospital beds are better and many have two sets of controls to move into a multitude of positions. What is different is that, like fund managers, the doctors are getting younger all the time. And like fund managers, most of the doctors are really n...